MODERN YOUNG WOMAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23463, 30 March 1938, Page 10

MODERN YOUNG WOMAN

LACK OF DOMESTIC ABILITY A SWEEPING STATEMENT (Per United Press Association) ASHBURTON, Mar. 29. A sweeping statement on the helplessness of the modern young woman in regard to her domestic ability, a plea for women police, condemnation of the Japanese forces m their ruthless warfare in China, and advocacy of a boycott on Japanese goods, were made this morning by the Dominion president of the Women’s Division of the Farmers Union at the Interprovincial Conference. , The speaker, Mrs J. F. Drake, of Berwick, Otago, stated that it should be compulsory for all girls to receive some training in domestic work before they left school, and said that till domestic work was looked up to as an honourable duty, and not looked down at, as at present, a dangerous position would be made worse. “ The hospitals are full of people who should never have been sent there. They are ill because they have not been able to eat food properly cooked. Girls are getting married to-day, and they know nothing about how to keep house, much less anything about bringing up a family. A young man becomes engaged, and sets about offering his bride a nice home. On the other hand, what has the girl to offer toward the bargain? Very often she is an indifferent cook, cannot look after the home, and does not know the first thing about bringing up a family.