A SCHOOL FOR BRIDES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 12

A SCHOOL FOR BRIDES.

The Cincinnati Educational Department proposes to start a school for brides, where future housewives may learn the elements of their craft, and to that extent make happy husbands. It is the belief of Mr London, Superintendent of Schools at Cincinnati, that untold matrimonial misery, paving the way to separation and divorce, arises from the ignorance of the young wife, and that a six months' course under qualified instructors would wonderfully improve a woman's natural talent for keeping house and making a comfortable home. After taking a course, the bride-to-be will (the Daily Telegraph says) be qualified to cater for a family, locate a leak in a water-pipe, mend a broken door knob, put up a shelf, scrub, wash, iron, market, give first aid to an injured member of the family, darn stockings, lay a table in the most appropriate fashion, and, best of all, aid her husband by preventing the frightful waste'which Mr London describes as characteristic of. the American household.