SHOULD BOVS COOK OR SEW ?

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 July 1925, Page 17

SHOULD BOVS COOK OR SEW ?

Some authority in England has keen writing to urge parents to teach their boys to cook, do house work, and sew! They suggest, very rightly, that all knowledge is useful —or it will be some day if it isn’t now. And this most certainly does apply to cooking. W r e should all be able to c<ook if it comes to a pinch! Yet few of us can! As for men, they’re most helpless. And how many of them regret it at som 6 stage of their career when being systematically badly fed. It does seem too ridiculous that anyone shoud find themselves unable to cook and serve a simple meal, to be vanquished by the vegetables, defeated by devilled kidneys, or conquered by a pound of raw beaf steak! And then there’s' th e question of house work. It certainly seems advisable that even a boy should master its elements. He may live in bachelor quarters or in some shack in Hie backwoods in later life and have to keep things straight. Or he may be most uncomfortable, yet utterly 'incapable of saying what’s wrong, i And a boy should be able to darn liis own socks, put on buttons or me ml a. torn coat. If that’s wliat is meant, by sewing, one would find it rather difficult to deny the obvious advantages of it. '