Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 1 April 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

GINGER NUTS. Some men are always up and doing —others. Misfortunes are scut to annoy us and amuse our friends.

The more money a woman lias the less use she lias for a man.

Indigestion will always harden the heart of the average man. .Main' a man's unpopularity is due to the fact that he always tells the truth.

A real friend will stand hy to the last shilling. Hut it has to be your shilling. Upon the whole it is belter to lie proud of your children than of your ancestors.

Occasionally man gets up with '.he lark so that ho can take a swallow before breakfast.

A chaperon is described as the only person who gets much credit for neglecting her business. It is a bad plan to borrow money or trouble. Hut if you must negotiate a loan get the cash. When a young man calls on a girl and she tells him that she expects to die an old maid, it is equivalent to a proposal.

Women don't mean it when they kiss each other in public—they do it merely to show the men what they are missing.

Love-making is just one of those things the less one knows about the better one does it. It's not art, but heart that does it.

A kiss in the morning, another at night, and for Heaven's sake don't bother me in the interval—that is marriage from a man's point of view. Why is it that a woman will spend three hours in front of a looking-glass arranging her hair, and then put on a hat which covers the whole of her head. 1 DOMESTIC SCIENCE TRAINING. WHAT CANADA IS DOING. Under the signature of Esther Longliurst, in a current number of "Hearth and Home," the domestic science training of Canadian women is reviewed, and the writer waxes enthusiastic over the Canadian training colleges. Canada, hug, she says, -grasped the importance of the home in the building up of a great nation. The country does not want mere traveller*, but a permanent population of sturdy, energetic, hard-working men and women. Britishers, if possible, and, if not, others, whose children will be Canadian bom and loyal to the country of their birth and to that of their fathers. Such satisfactory citizens can, the country feels, only be reared in happy families, awl the family largely depends upon the mother. And so Canada very wisely gives mothers every facility for acquiring those rates which go to the making of a happy, contented, and useful household."

The first need is, of course, teachers, and not being able, as yet, to supply these locally, the Government are liking for teachers of domestic economy from England, for from every part of the Dominion is coming the demand <or a domestic instructor."

Now comes upon the scene the fairy godfather, Sir William Mac Donald, whose support of Agriculture Colleges is said to have <lone more to build up a nation of sturdy men and women, than nil the other philanthropists put togeihcr. To his munificence -Canada owes one <){ the finest agricultural colleges in t.'ie world. St. Anne de Bellevue, - 2(t miles west of Montreal. It is his gift, and the, school of household science w!ii..-h forms an important part of its system is conducted on the most modern linos, and with the purest practicability. Within its doors, .Miss Longhurst found several English women among both the teachers and the ''taught," and they were unanimous in their praise of its life. Here were girls taking a year's course to thoroughly lit them for home life in a country, which, like our own. often demands of the house mother that she shall do everything down to wood chopping and milking. Then there is a more elaborate course for the wouldbe teachers. I'ut the unique feature of the college work is the close co-operation between the agricultural and domestic departments, many of the classes being taken together, so that the young farmer knows of practical experience what I his wife has to put up with, and sue i realises also the hard labor of the farm man.

A day passed at. the fJiielph College proved one of pure delimit and absorbing interest. Students were called at 5.45 in summer time. One division was told ofl' to put the rooms ready for the. day, and another to get breakfast.— there, were 1(H) students to cook for — while a third laid the tables.and waited upon the first batch at table. After their breakfast a squail turned to and washed up while the remainder enjovcl an hour's leisure, or did a bit of gardening, as they fancied. At 10 o'clock there was the first lecture —sometimes a practical demonstration, sometimes a discussion. At 11 came 10 minutes interval for refreshments, and then one and a half hours' lecture and private reading, except for those who prepared the dinner, a herculean undertaking as all the students of the college si:h[ tfic teachers hail to be. catered for, *SS in

all. Studies began at i o'clock, .mil went on with sliort intervals until (i. llalf-aii-hour later there was a high tail, ami the evening was then devoted to amusements or private study. WELL-PAID DOMESTICS.

The story of the. cook-housemaid who was recently awarded WOO damages for breach of promise of marriage, and who stated that she had held a situation in London worth £2.">!) a year. suggests the idea that domestic service offer's many more facilities for self-a.l-vaiicemeut than is commonly supposed. Incpiiries made in London "established these two facts: That situations as a domestic servant worth .C'oU a ysur "all told" are very rare, and that a thoroughly competent cook, who is capable also of supervising the stoic cupboards and the stair, can earn a salarv varying from £SO to .CJOO per annum, and even more, exclusive of her board, lodging and "sundries"—all of which if added together, would bring up her total failings to a not inconsiderable *">"• with long experience in the placing ami training of domestics confessed that the term '■cook-house-maid" was new to her, and the worker referred to must, she added, have been singularly well paid ami most except ionally fortunate to earn the sum named in that capacity. She stated, however, that posts worth €l5O a year and thereabouts were by no means uncommonly held by cooks, who were always in a position' to command a good salarv provided they had good organising ability and were capable managers. '•Women

with these qualifications." she said, ''will find plenty of scope for their abi .-;>■,

in the big schools and college::. <d,:'ns, and lir.-d.-ratc boarding houses. The figures would be arrived at in this way: .Salary, Cic/i ,-,r .CI 10. while board and : lodging and laundry reckoning it at l-s (id a week, would come to £.'.Vl Ills. ! Tips,' 100, mhl up to quite a respectable figure, not onlv in chilis, when the mcui- j bcrs usually sulwrihe. for tile staff at Christmas, but in private houses, -m well ' as in schools am! boar,bughouses, where j the tradesmen make it their business to see that the cook is kept friendly."