SCHOOL FOR HOUSEWIVES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 13146, 30 November 1906, Page 5

SCHOOL FOR HOUSEWIVES.

i Wit bin a year New York may have a technical high- school to prepare girls ta become wives. How to nurse a sick husband, how .to attend to the thousand! and one wants of baby, and how to keep » down household expensed, us low as the ' trusts will allow, are among the things the girls will be taught, r Sucib is the plan tiikials of the Board of Education now have under consideration. Impetus to „the movement ha» been given by the fact that Cleveland has announced its intention of having the first school of the kind in, the country. £ ' ' _ "The idea is not as new asf Cleveland! people evidently believe," said Edward B. Shallow, acting Superintendent, " In. our own city the plan of teaching girls how to do their work a« wives was on© of the,objects in view in the establishment iby the Board of Education of two institutions—the technical high school for girto and the domestic classes in the vacation schools. ' " There the girl is taught sewing, cooking .applied arts and <rt2ior courses in the (study outlined by the' Cleveland board for its new school. First' aid to the injured, treatment for heat prostration, caring for , the ha!r, : changing file clothing of oil invalid without removing him fromu tlie bwl amd-oßier inrptfrbaffi lesson* ore given % trained nurses. - 'Toe dfltf difference between the J conra«» given 1 Here «nd be given "in the Cleveland school pecans to lie, I think, in the fact that we have no one line of studies given over for the preparation of girls to become wives. Ottr courses have a. more general aspect, training a child to look after her little brothers and tasters or one who is already a wife to care for her children.

" In the latter case this city already has in the vacation playgrounds, courses which would of'necessity be placed in.ttho curriculum of a school as that, propoised. Experienced nurses give young mothers instructions in proper feeding, bathing and clothing of infants and prescribe remedies for simple «ilin«ntf;. Miss Evangeline E. Whitney, of the district superntendenfc in charge of the vacation schools, says the ignorance of tihcse young mothers is appalling." iA ■ ■ • „• Mis* Whitney's report to the superintendent says that mothers often ask. to be taught certain kinds of -work to they may assist their children at home. With the inauguration of the proposed school these things will become known to girls' at am, early age, so that they can marry with, a., full knowledge of all domestic science that a wife should knoW. flio New York officials will study the curriculum of. the Cleveland school -with the idea not only of following it, but of " going omo better."-