management of income, first-aid, home-nursing, and the care of infants and young children.  Many training-schools arrange for their students to gain experience in a creche or similar institution, and to visit homes of various types.  Practical experience is gained in housekeeping and catering, superintending the arrangements for meals, ordering stores and keeping accounts.  Voice production and blackboard drawing are also taught, while science is studied concurrently with the above.  The course in science embraces some Theoretical and Practical Chemistry, Physics, Physiology, Hygiene (personal and school hygiene and preventive measures), and the Theory and Practice of Education.  Domestic Science students gain teaching experience not only in the various departments of the training-school, but also in elementary and secondary schools; happily the training is the same for those intending to take up either elementary or secondary teaching.

Thus it is seen that the present-day teacher of household arts is much more fitted to train the well-educated girl to organise household matters, than was her predecessor.  Not only is manipulative skill acquired, but scientific reasons for processes and methods are outlined, and improvements are suggested.  There is, however, still the danger that the student’s training in science has been so subordinated to the acquirement of manipulative skill that her knowledge of scientific facts is not sufficiently based on scientific training and method.

Much, then, is to be urged in favour of the woman with a science degree taking courses in domestic arts, but it is essential for her to attain a high standard of practical work.  It has sometimes been found that a very academic and scientific method of treatment has tended to lower the standard of manipulative skill.  Nevertheless qualified graduates find themselves, at the moment, greatly in demand.  The economical headmistress must always be on the look out for an acquisition to her staff who will, like Count Smorltork’s politics, “surprise in herself many branches.”  If the headmistress can solve her difficulty about her domestic arts teacher by engaging a college-bred woman, with a degree to put on the prospectus, all sorts of ordinary subjects for her odd hours and undertaking to teach cooking as well, she will jump at the chance, and pay her L10 to L20 more salary than the ordinary assistant-mistress.  She will economise greatly by the arrangement.  If she has some amount of money to back her schemes, and a large school to administer, she will prefer two people to one composite one.  But she will beg them to collaborate and to work together.  She will not expect the woman with the science degree and a brief subsequent training in the arts to have the manipulative skill of the one who has done something like one thousand hours of actual practice, according to the prescription of the Board of Education.  She will ask the former to show the girls how modern science is connected with the modern house, and how the scientific way of thinking helps in keeping a house, as it does in keeping one’s own health and fitness.