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BEGINNING HOUSEKEEPING.

Happiness in the home depends more upon the wife than the husband, although co-operation is necessary to success in nearly everything we undertake. Mothers are directly responsible for so much friction in household machinery. No daughter's education should be considered complete until she thoroughly understands every branch of housework. Circumstances may necessitate her having only an insight of it, but a little experience will teach any good housewife that servants have more respect for a mistress who is skilled in household economics than for one who is dependent .upon their help. Then if a servant leaves suddenly, the competent housewife is able to fill the gap until further arrangements can be made. In all country towns and villages a "maid of all work" is all the help required, and many times a strong healthy woman prefers to do the work herself. One well versed in the culinary art can gladden her husband's heart in many ways, and also find some time for social duties and reading, other things being equal. A well-ordered house is only one step toward home-making. Young ladies are usually very careful of their toilet when their lovers are expected, but too many forget this after marriage. It is even more essential that a wife make herself attractive to the man-she.sees three hundred and sixty five days in the year. Harriet Beecher Stowe says that love needs as much care as thrifty house plants. Sunshine is essential to their growth, and does not a tastefully dressed woman help to make sunshine in the home? She cannot make it alone, for a selfish man would cloud the atmosphere of any horizon, however bright it may be. The boy who is taught to wait upon his mother will be thoughtful for his wife. Such a man lends warmth to the home atmosphere in many little ways. Here again we see the responsibility that women hold, for "the home life is the pulse of the Nation," and our little boys and girls are to be the lathers and mothers of the future. 2

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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 518, 16 November 1912, Page 7

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BEGINNING HOUSEKEEPING. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 518, 16 November 1912, Page 7

BEGINNING HOUSEKEEPING. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 518, 16 November 1912, Page 7

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