"BEAUTIFUL IDEAL"

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 18

"BEAUTIFUL IDEAL"

CAREER MENACE TO HOME LIFE ■■'■.'- *

Madame Borgioli, formerly Miss Patricia Mort, of Sydney, is revisiting Australia with her husband, the tenor singer, who.: is under contract to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. She spends her life trying to be a perfect Secretary, chauffeur, and manager to her husbabd, and in the following interview with a representative of tKe "Sydney Morning Herald" she expresses the opinion that women must either devote the whole of their time to a career, or stay at: home to do the housework. ' •/> -' ' . •'•

"It has been my experience,"' Mad* ame Borgioli said, "that if. a woman is to look after the home :prqperly, she has no time for anything else. If she tries to devote some of her time to a career the happiness of the home will surely go to pieces. It: is possible to do justice only to one occupation, arid any woman who says she can combine the two is talking rot-/I should like for one day to be a fly on tha wall in a house where the woman is trying to do justice to two careers.'A study of the husband's digestion and temper would be most interesting, y

"I really think," Madame Borgioli continued, "that women. should stay in the home. If I could reform th« world, I should , like to keep every woman at home with her children, because it is a most beautiful ideaL Since the war, conditions seem-to have forced women into 'employment. The shortage of young men probably caused their emancipation in this respect. I don't object to young women working in suitable/jobs, but it seems a pity for them to carry on this work after they' marry. In any. case, it is * menace to the birth rate, of which we hear so much.

"I don't like to see women doing jobs v that should be left to men. It is the tendency to find 'interesting' jobs, I think, that has caused the shortage of women servants. Girls no longer want to enter domestic service." - ■■

Madame Borgioli admits thatif sh« had absolute leisure she would learn, to be a perfect housewife, but sh« would rather employ a cook thatt. a chauffeur if it were necessary to choose between the two.

She is a, keen motorist, and has driven her husband through most of Europe and other parts of the world. Between May and December of last year she drove 12,000 miles through England, France, and Italy, and she has not been in a) train for two years.-: ■. -' •' ■ . ■:: -■; /

were used for the Christmas dinner. A film was shown in the evening.

"Dancing, theatricals, carol parties, and charades were all enjoyed at Sand* ringham and at the other big house* —so it. may well be'said that the bld^ fashioned Christmas has come back."