What are the duties of a cook? Do these duties differ from those of (a) a housemaid, (b) a parlour-maid, and (c) a general servant?
2. Can money be saved by a deposit account at the stores? If so, compare the store prices with the charges made at a West End shop for beef, mutton, potatoes, muslin, and mixed biscuits?
3. If a dinner (with wine) for four costs £6 10s. at a club, how much should a dinner for eight (four males and four females) cost at home?
4. What do you know of the School for Cookery?
5. Give briefly the best way of living on £500 a year on the basis that your husband is a clerk in a Government office, and your family consists of a daughter, aged fourteen, and a son rising seven.
History.
1. Give a short account of the life of any one of the following eminent wives who were a comfort to their husbands—Catherine Parr, Queen Mary, and Henrietta Maria, Consort of Charles the First.
2. Point out the mistakes of Marie Antoinette in special regard to the career of Louis the Sixteenth.
3. Give some of the reasons why Queen Elizabeth preferred celibacy to marriage, and prove that those reasons were fallacies.
4. Give a short account of the married life of David Copperfield, and criticise the ménages of his first and his second wife.