HOME EFFICIENCY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 949, 16 April 1930, Page 6

HOME EFFICIENCY

SCHOOLS ON CONTINENT TRAINING HOUSEWIVES In Freiburg, Switzerland, is the head office of the International Association of Home Economics where an educative display is kept, and where con- ! tracts are made between the workers in home economics in various countries. In Holland there are springing up many groups of housewives interested in this idea of efficiency in housework, and lectures and classes are being organised. Holland has excellent schools for teaching these subjects to the growing children. One large series of schools in Rotterdam takes girls when they have passed the Junior Certificate, and for two intensive years teaches them what every little Holland girl is expected to know—how to keep house to perfection. France is also alive to these new ideas of saving time, and is making changes in the kitchen, laundry, anti elsewhere so as to reduce . woman's traditional drudgery. An outstanding leader there is Mile. Paulette Bernege who edits a monthly publication of high standard, and which is devoted to the application of natural and economic sciences, to appliances, methods and processes. Mile. Bernege has founded a chain of leagues, known as j Les Ligues de L’Organisation Menagere, which meets in various French cities and whose object is this same “rationalisation'’ or efficiency of the i [•French, home and its housework.