Compulsory Cookery.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 11 October 1917, Page 4

Compulsory Cookery.

"Mr Hanau quoted tho example of the woman who has an M.A. degree who may not be a home-maker, and said he would insist upon domestic science being made compulsory for girls."— Parliamentary report. In pre-llananitic ages, when a man on marriage bent Sought a partner, he was straightway in a sad predicament. He was faced with this dilemma when he came to choose the maid: Soul or stomach. These were matters to be pondered on and weighed. For he found that all the women he put his money on Were as innocent as babies of the structure of a scone; While the girl who was a champion in the arts of pot and pan Was a dull, untidy creature by the name of Mary Ann. Soul or stomach? And he wondered, till Ilia head began to ache If the charms of Rosalinda would outweigh her heavy cake, Or if Mary's glorious cooking would avail to make him blind To the plainnes of her features aud the flatness of lier mind. Love or liver? A dilemma that produced extreme distress In the harassed individual who espoused your ancestress. If she wasn't always cooking, trying j nothing else to learn, I She was reading Herbert, Spencer while j she let the mutton burn. Now a better age is dawning for the troubled batchelor. Gone the clash of soul and stomach; it will vex him nevermore. Ho will find in matrimony the supreme and perfect whole: A stomach wcll-cnnlented and a line \ free flight of soul. —M.C.K., in the "Press."