Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making

es of mind and heart which so largely contribute to the successful art of home-making, it is not less necessary

mestic worry and discomfort that exist, to say nothing of the more serious discords tha

a milder term, there does not appear to me to b

experience, but allow their daughters to grow up in idleness, and launch them on the s

in expecting and exacting a moderate degree of comfort at least in his own house, and if it is not forthcoming may be forgiven a complaint. He is to be pitied, but his unhappy wife much more deserves our pity, since she f

awful cooking. At first he is forbearing and encouraging; but in the end, when no improvement is visible, the honeymoon begins to wane much more rapidly than eith

er troubles, especially if the cares of motherhood be added to th

h amazing rapidity. If they are by nature housewifely women, they will triumph over the faults of their early traini

in early to train them in domestic work. That there are servants in the house need be no obstacle in the way. There are silly domestics who resent what they call the "meddling" of young ladies i

re the genius of method is conspicuous by its absence; where regularity and punctuality are unobserved, if not unknown. The household governed by a woman without method is to be pitied. Her husband is a stranger to the c

te of perpetual warfare against the class. Of course this method must be kept within

comfort of those under their roof-tree. With them it is a perpetual cleaning day, and woe betide the luckless offender who has the misfortune

n any corner of the house, and to be certain that food and everything pertaining to it is perfect so far as cleanliness is concerned, there is a sense of insecurity and unrest in the abode of the over-particular woman which often develops into positive misery and discomfort. It is the sort of discomfort specially distasteful to the male portion of mankind. Although th

nd dread its approach. The housekeeper who considers the comfort of those about her will do her utmost to rob it of it

of the house will not be made to feel that they are quite in

ce; but she will have her reward in the grateful appreciation o