Good Housekeeping Receives Its Reward in Germany
“MASTER OF HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.’* Good housekeeping, which has long been extolled in Germany, has now been accorded official reward. All efficient housewives there who have fulfilled certain conditions are, in future, to be given the title of “ Master of Household Economy." To attain this distinction, the housewives must be over the age of 24, and they must have conducted their own households for fivo years, including the running of accounts, and have taken a special course in household duties lasting two years. The course includes training in such household duties as dusting, sweeping, polishing, laundry, ironing, sewing, furnishing, cooking, hygiene, education of children, training of maids—the Nazi ideology. More thau 700 German women have already fulfilled these conditions, and have already been granted the new title, which enables them to train young girls to be “perfect" maids.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 10
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