Dutch Women.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 363, 18 February 1937, Page 3

Dutch Women.

Women at The Hague are amongst the last in Europe to cling to their large houses set in well-kept gardens, states an exchange. Housekeeping is the Dutch-woman’s pride and hitherto she has considered it wellnigh impossible to do the job thoroughly in a fiat, however convenient it may be. Some time ago, however, a huge skyscraper building sprang up in Amsterdam. It is made largely of glass, and houses many families who have given up their spacious homes for one reason or other —chiefly on account of servaht difficulties and the value of land. In The ‘Hague, too, there is a luxury skyscraper block of flats, called the Blue House, by reason of the blue paint?dVwindow boxes and outside woodwork. Each flat has a small roof garden communicating by a glass door with the rooms inside. Every possible v'orksaving device has been installed, and life has been so simplified for women that they agree with others in England, Germany, Scandinavia and America that there is much to be said for easy exsitence in a wellequipped flat. But Princess Juliana, at least, is not likely to become a flat dweller.