SCHOOL FOR WIVES.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12490, 17 March 1909, Page 4

SCHOOL FOR WIVES.

Dedicated to cookery and housewifery, an imposing college, built by the National Society, has just been opened to be without a rival in the United ed to be without a riva lin the United Kingdom (says the London "Mail.") It occupies half an apre of ground, and-there are kitchens, laundries, demonstration halls, practice rooms, dressmaking. rooms, laboratory- and science Hall, dining rsoms, and staff rooms for the-, accommodation of 30 residential students and 150 day students. _ " : ---.. "Students are being taught to cook with electricity, -gas, and the ordinary kitchen range," said Miss Agnes Turnbull, the principal, interviewed. Although the instruction is intend-' ed pr incipally for teachers of domestic science — the college being recognised by the Board of Education— there _ are special courses open to housewives. ' The syllabus of these courses includes:— Choice of a house — rent -and rates, " Ventilating, . \yarming and lighting. Savings and investments. Preparation and serving of meals. . Household emergencies. ; Markotingj with the price and choice of- food, is .included in the kitchen economics course, and there are classes :in ; dressmaking, millinery, and upholstery.