DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3077, 23 December 1908, Page 4

DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

The study of domestic science will be a feature in the work of the girls' division of the Auckland Grammar School next year. In announcing in

her annual report this new develop-

i ment, the headmistress (Miss Whitelaw) makes the following observations: —"By domestic science 1 mean ! the science which underlies the efficij ent management of a home or an institution mi all its branches, from the ! purchass of its site, its building and ! sanitation, to the bacteria of its ' larder; from the chemistry of its cookery, wash-tub, and cleaning materials, to the hygiene of its inmates. If there is one lesson which is fixed upon our notice in New Zealand, it is the absolute importance of all women being able to grapple with the entire management of a home in any department. Never was it more essential to reduce it to a science; never was it more important to raise it to a plane above the level of drudgery to which it so often and so falsely relegated: and to do this the study of it should hold a worths place in the curriculum of our schools. ... It would be a matter of thanksgiving could we in titne, by means of school or university courses, make of this science a profession offering a career as ' eagerly sought after and as attractive | £0 women 86 is that of nursing."