Six Miles a Day.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)

Six Miles a Day.

A correspondent states that the average work-a-day woman, engaged in her ordinary domestic duties, covers six. miles a day inffide the walls of her own home. This discovery was made by a research student in domestic economy, who persuaded a number of women engaged in household duties to wear pedometers while at work. The preparation of the daily meals, and the washing up of crockery afterwards, was found to account for nearly three miles a day. This may not be reliable, as the pedometer measures the number of steps, and in this calculation they are all taken to be of average length, which is really not likely to be the case when a woman is passing backwards and forwards from kitchen to sitting-room, and from one feide of. the room to the other. It does show, however, that the housewife takes plenty of exercise.

Tweed or Fur Beads? > The latest idea is to wear jewels to match the flowers printed on our frocks (writes a Londoner), ff you have a dress patterned with roses, you’ll wear a little brooch, or a buckle, or a pendant of roses made of coral or pink topaz. Forget-me-nots are made with pieces of turquoise, and are so charming that nobody minds if they are not the right shade. The newest necklaces for sports wear are large round beads made of tweed, or whatever material the frock or suit is made of. Chokers of tiny fur balls with beads threaded are another of the season’s novelties.