DEPUTY MOTHERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 50, 22 November 1919, Page 4

DEPUTY MOTHERS

NEW 'WORK MR MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN. A band of educated middle-aged women is being organised by the London Women's Industrial Council to carry on household work in middle-class home* when the mother is ill. Tlicy are not intended to repines trained nurses, but to help bv lookrns after tho house, tho children, 'the invalid's food, tho shopping. and the mending. Homo helps will bo supplied only lo families iu which iihere is a definite ease of sickness, and they will not bo sent to families who cannot afford to pay a living wage. , ... Those who have enlisted for tins work include a doctor'** widow who has nursed patients, women who have managed their own households but 'have lost incomes or supporters during' the war, and trained nurses of 15 and sft, or even older whom lihe hospitals will not take. Applicants are required to take certificates ill first aid, home nursing, and invalid cookery at the College of Ambulance. , , , . Pnvment for the home help 3 services i« not less till an lfld. an hour, or ss. ppr day; with fond, or 253. ft week with all meals. — Mail." Tho programme for tho social eveninj} to be held at the Y.W.C.A. Uooms, Herbert Street, to-niglit is being arranged by Aliss l'ope, and an enjoyable evening ot luibic anil merriment is promised. Tho Wellington delegates to tho YW.C.A. Convention at present being held in Auckland left this week in order to attend on the opening day. It is expected that important matters will bu discussed during the session. The Wellington delegates expect to return homo on November 28. Mine. Curie, the eo-discovorer of radium, has been elected Professor of Rudinloi'v at Warsaw University. Lily Cornwell. tho U-vear-old sister of ,Toilti'Travel's Cornwell, Y.C., who fell in the Battle of Jutland, received, at her homo in Commercial Jtoad, Stopney, a birthdav present of a piano, bought out of the proceeds of a booklet written on her brother's exploit bv Mr. T. C. MacCorniaek, of Northampton. It is expected that auv further proceeds will go lo nrovide for her tuition. Tt was .lack Coruwelt's last promise, to his sister that, ho would buy her n piano after the war.

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