HELPING THE HOUSEWIFE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1569, 12 October 1912, Page 11

HELPING THE HOUSEWIFE.

After many years of practical and theoretical study, the principal of fet. Murtha'e College for Training Gentlewomen in Homecraft, St. George's Square, S.W., has como to the conclusion "that too much time is spent on housework" (writes tlco London <jorrespondent of tho "Telegraph"). Housing is the real problem she- considers, overywhere. She would lite women architects to plan sensible dwellings, with plenty of cupboards and tho right kind of sink, that doesn't splash over or swamp the outside gully nt tho first' opportunity. . . Asked for an instance of "work-making in the averngo house, Miss Fedden denounces the old block-leaded grates as causing both dust and labour in vain. "By using the new tiled grates, we diminish work in this particular department to one-eighth. Tiled kitchen floors, too, simplify cleaning wonderfully." The principal of St. Martha's advocates gas cooking as cleanl.v, best for boiling, and truly economical as applied to that praiseworthy. contrivance—the steam cooker. Speaking as a cook, 6he prefers a clear coal range for baking and roasting. Black saucepans she would entirely abolish. They arc terrible to clean. Enamal or aluminium should be substituted. The idaal house, as pictured by this authority on housecraft, is compact and not too large, with rooms sufficiently spacious and rather too empty than too full. Bound up with the topic of minimising housework is the question of who, 19 to do