THE GIRL OF TO-DAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19736, 4 January 1927, Page 10

THE GIRL OF TO-DAY

PROBLEM OF A DINNER DIGNITY AND WASHING-UP There are few girls to-day able to run a home if their mothers are taken ill, according to Air Alutch, Alinistcr of Education in New South Wales. It was necessary, Mr Mutch said in a speech in Sydney recently to provide domestic science schools for girls of this type. The average girl, he remarked, did not know how to run a home. When he way, a boy his sisters helped his mother in the washing-up. They also learned how to cook a dinner. What would the girls of to-day do, if their mothers became ill, and there was a dinner to be prepared for visitors? asked Air Alutch. These girls would marry some day, and then there would be trouble. Afany girls thought it beneath their dignity to wash up, although they expected their mothers to do it. Domestic science schools would make all the difference between happiness and misery, because girls taught there would be able to make a shilling go as far as the other girl would make eightcenpence. These schools would remedy a great evil, and teach young women many things they knew nothing about at present.