DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2548, 8 July 1909, Page 7

DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

; The University of Otago is just now•‘•'(with generous outside help) endeavoring to make provision for a chair of Domestic Science, and thereby promote ‘‘heaven and earth” homes. It was, we think, an experienced English matron who was asked by her daughter, on the eve of the latter’s wedding, for some hints as to the management of her future husband. ‘‘Feed the brute!” quoth the plain-spoken dame. The recently formed American Home Economics Association makes this, in effect, one of its methods of reforming social life with the aid of mrbs and pans.and -other such household ware. .We believe,” recently said their president, “that if all the public schools of reasonable size, as well as the universities and colleges, could he equipped with departments of domestic arts and science, living conditions would improve materially. and that less household material would go to waste, the health of the -individuals would be much better, the actual cost of living, would decrease, and folk would live much happier.” This is a variant of a “wisdom” of the famous French Brillat Savarin, that the happiness of a nation de]X?nds to an extent upon the way in which its food is cooked. They cook it well in France —so well that even the pigs are said to be liapny there.— “New Zealand Tablet.’ •