A new establishment, under the name of St. --Martha's Collego for' Housewives, has been opened at Pimlico. It is announced as a school for providing a place where the wife who-is-to-bc can for a modest payment of thirty guineas and six months of domestic work emerge a capable housewife. The course of training laid down certainly reads hard. Tho pupils rise at six, and start work at a quarter to seven. Two hours in the morning are given to laundry work, two hours in the afternoon are taken up with a cooking lesson, and at half-past seven, at night they start copying out notes of tlieir lessons. . They are sent to brd at half past -nine. — London Mail." '
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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12754, 29 March 1910, Page 4
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118Page 4 Advertisements Column 7 Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12754, 29 March 1910, Page 4
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