EDUCATING OUR GIRLS
Sir,—"Fair Play's" letter is not strong enough. What with making lollies and cakes, knitting socks and sowing shirts out of school time, and going to Sairey Gamp lectures in school time, our poor girls are being exploited right and left. Baby demonstrations, indeed! They arc only babies_ themselves. No wonder they feel disgusted at the' nursery details they have to listen to. If this female-machine craze is not stopped soon there will be no girl children left —only motherly females from the age of 14. It is tima fathers put their foot down, if mothers and school teachers are too apathetic. School and play alternately is enough for growing boys: it is enough for growing girls. Let tho unborn babies wait till the girls are older; and leave the needlework to tho fussy women who find knitting socks "such a comfort, don't-you-know, to do something for our dear soldier-bovs," and whose intelligence is so slight that they spend weeks doing by hand what a machine would do better in an hour or two.—l am, etc., BACHELOR-UNCLE.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 60, 4 December 1917, Page 8
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179EDUCATING OUR GIRLS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 60, 4 December 1917, Page 8
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