DOMESTIC SCIENCE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 4

DOMESTIC SCIENCE

Mr. Lloyd George, in a letter to "The Times," appeals tu parents to devote more attention to the teaching of domestic soieuce. "Among tho many branches of educational work, none has deserved better of the public at large than that of domestic scionce. It is helping in this time of crisis in every, conceivable way, and has penetrated into every stratum of society. On the women of this country no less than ou the men is laid tho necessity of fighting enemies of stern stuff—in the case of the women, want and hunger for themselves and their children, unless scientific knowledgo is brought to bear on tho question. Tho various food campaigns organised all over thoi country havo done much to open the eyes of tho peoplo to shortage of food and tho national defect of ignorance in cooking; but the trained people who are wanted to present the truth in a convincing and incontrovertible way are comparatively few in number, and many have been lent by education authorities to other departments requiring help in practical food questions. I would aßk parents who are weighing the future of their daughters to consider whether they could not usefully bo trained for such work. Work in offices and banks, labour of all sorts (most of it of a transitory nature) are deflecting into blind alley occupations the girls on whom the educational future of the children depends. There is no one to sound the alarm. The terrible mortality of infants and children due to improner feeding is a scandal to our civilisation and could bo minimised if knowledge of this important branch of education wore more widespread."