§ MR. CYRIL FLOWER (Bedford, Luton)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, If he will consider the possibility of dividing the cookery grant between laundry and cookery in evening schools during the ensuing winter?
§ MR. STANLEY LEIGHTON (Shropshire, Oswestry)also asked, Whether, in accordance with the prevailing opinion that the elementary education of girls is incomplete unless they are trained to apply in practice the multifarious knowledge acquired intellectually, and in view of the success which has resulted from the establishment of laundry classes in some of the elementary schools in Liverpool, he will consider the expediency of admitting laundry work as a class subject into the Code, on the same footing as cookery, and in substitution for some other subject less important to girls in every-day life?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE) (Kent, Dartford), in reply, said, he considered it so important to encourage the teaching of cookery, that he doubted the expediency of diminishing the grant by dividing it with laundry work in evening schools. The suggestion to place laundry work in a similar position with cookery involved considerations of expense, and of the time at the service of girls in elementary schools, which could not hastily be disposed of. Evidence was given on these subjects before the Royal Commission on Education, and he was curious to see if they made any recommendation in regard to them. Washing could now be taught under the Code as a branch of domestic economy.