During the week a very interesting Women's Conference has been
held at the Japan-British Exhibition. All the dis- cussions have been well attended and have dealt with subjects of importance, but perhaps the most interesting was that which took place on Wednesday in regard to ideals of home science and the proposal to raise the teaching of the arts and sciences that concern the home to a University standard. The speaker who opened the discussion, urged that not durinc, a part, but throughout the whole of a woman's education the teaching of the arts and sciences of the home should be kept steadily in view. She went on to point out that the teaching of those arts and sciences could never obtain its rights and gain proper appreciation and a worthy status unless such teaching was raised to a University standard. People must be made to realise that these things were not merely affairs of the scullery, the laundry, and the store-room, but that the underlying principles, and especially the training of children, demand not only the highest culture, but the highest intel- lectual enthusiasm.
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