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New Zealand Tablet, 9 January 1913, Page 36

The very important reason why every mother and father should see that their daughters are able to do housework, in all its branches, is that motherliness, the care of the home and children, is the essence of all true womanhood. Call it domestic science if you wish (says the Catholic Tribune), but after all it is purely "and simply plain, ordinary housework. The reason that domestic science touches the practical everyday life of every man, woman, and child, makes us readily understand why the demand to teach it in our parochial and public schools, finds such a strong echo in the hearts of practical people.