TRAINED HOMEMAKERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 9

TRAINED HOMEMAKERS

One of the greatest demands of the day is for efficiency—efficiency in public service in government, in business, in education, and in the home. To-day men and women who want to succeed simply have to be efficient, for there is no room for the incompetent and the inefficient. With the labour market so overcrowded there is little chance for the man or woman who does not know how to do something really well. There is special need for efficiency in tho home. High costs and low wages make economy essential, and the woman who wants to run her home successfully on as little money as possible needs to be thoroughly competent. She must understand food values, be a clever cook, know how to rear children properly, understand the duties of housekeeping and shopping, realise the value of fresh air, sunlight, and cleanliness in the home; and it will also help if she knows a little about dressmaking. All these capabilities in one woman! It seems a lot to expect, and yet, when one looks around one, how many women there are who combine all these gifts in one quite ordinary personality 1 In tho future housekeeping and homo-making will be looked upon as a career, and girls will train for it as to-day they train for nursing or teaching. The status of domestio work is being raised, and girls who are wise and who have a liking for the work of a bouse will seriously consider it when they are deciding for what work they will prepare. It is one of the few careers in which the demand is greater than the supply, and, as fresh homes , are being made every day, there is an increasing call for tho skilled domestic | workue.