A Fearsome Profession
"THERE are no entrance examinations for this profession, no award wages, no statutory holidays, and death is the only discharge. The A.C.E. talk, "Sources of Information," did not mentian these particular aspects when dealing the other day with the training and knowledge required for the profession of housewife, but it did give a formidable list of subjects she should master before considering herself properly equipped for her call-_ing-law, economics, buying, cooking and nutrition, sewing, mending, gardening, entertaining and interior decorating. One might add, for these days of absent husbands and scarcity of skilled assistance, a readiness to tackle diagnosis, first aid and nursing, plumbing, electricity, bushfelling, carpentty, and the setting of rattraps. Phe talk contained a wide and helpful survey of the. ways and means of getting further information about the household arts and when it was over I wondered how many women wished that they had spent the whole of their first 25 years or so in direct and practical preparation for this exacting calling, and (continued on next page)
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how many were thankful, on the other hand, that they had once had a chance to learn and to do other things.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 311, 8 June 1945, Page 8
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200A Fearsome Profession New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 311, 8 June 1945, Page 8
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