COMPULSORY COOKING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 375, 8 June 1928, Page 8

COMPULSORY COOKING

©LESSED will be the New Zealand husband of the future ; for the wives of the future, now at school, must learn home science as a compulsory subject. Blessed also will be the wife, if a husband’s affection makes for happiness. Has it not crudely been said that “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach”? If this be true, tlie good cook will be the happy wife, or the happy wife the good cook, whichever way one cares to put it. The wife of the future will know all about food values calories, vitamins and such like. She will understand that the maintenance of her husband’s digestion, and its accompaniment of a good temper, depends upon a well-balanced ration of established nutritive value and eupeptic virtue. She had better not neglect her arithmetic, though. The determination of the ration calls lor accurate computation of food values. Vitamins and calories cannot be trifled with.

When the Council of Education decided yesterday that scientific cooking should remain a compulsory item in the school curriculum, it was doubtless influenced by the statement that doctors’ bills would be avoided if all girls were taught the relative values of various foods. Pity the poor doctor! He will be depiived of his fees, and life will be robbed of much interest, if we have no ills to submit to his scrutinising eye or liis detective stetheseope. Another lost interest will be that of the Divorce Court. But, as compensation, there will be no more domestic misunderstandings when the wife maintains the husband in a state of perpetual good temper. Wives will spin the great world gaily round upon the satisfying science of dietetics.