With regard to a plan of household work. Whether an establishment be la.rge or small, positive rules should be laid down for observance in all that relates to the comfort of the family and the dispatch of the work. The old adage "A place for everything, and everything in its place," is not half under- stood or appreciated, until each member of a family puts everything they use in its place the moment they are done with it. The result will be convincing in the amount of domestic worry avoided and labor lightened. " But the tact to manage a household in an orderly manner doesn't always come with the knowledge of its necessity, nor even with the desire on the part of the mistress to so manage. She must understand thoroughly how to control her servants." The manage- ment of the servants being the management of the house itself. In engaging them, try to discover whether they are competent to fulfill the particular duties to be required of them. There will be no difficulties in this if they are really competent. Then agree to pay them what their competency is worth. RECIPE FOR ORDERLY DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT. Let the mistress of the house take two pounds of the very best self-control, one and a half pounds of justice, one pound of consideration, five pounds of patience, and one pound of discipline. Let this be sweetened with charity✪ Recipe for Orderly Domestic Management, let it simmer well, and let it be taken daily; in extreme cases in hourly doses, and be kept always on hand, then the domestic wheels will run quite smoothly. " Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; not purloyning, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." TIT. ii., 9, 10. KEEPING HOUSE. THE experiences of housekeeping are invaluable. They give a mental and physical training one can obtain in no other way. , Boarding is a poor way of living as compared with housekeeping. By all means keep house, even though in a small way. No young housekeeper need be discouraged if she does not at once succeed in everything she attempts. With experience only, and with the cultivation of good judgment, will the desired results be accomplished. No rule, no recipe can be so exact as not to require the use of judgment. Conditions vary. Circumstances are not always the same. Emergen- cies will arise when the use of quick wit and tact will be necessary to keep the wheels of the household machinery from being clogged, or from stopping entirely. Nowhere will there be so excellent an opportunity for the cultivation of wit and tact as in housekeeping. It is considered by some to be dull and prosaic, fit only for menials. On the contrary, the mistress of a household has great resources at her command, and great services to perform. She is queen of a small realm which she may make an Arcadia, if she will. But this requires time. . Not all at once do we reach any much desired end. However thor- oughly a young woman may have been taught to perform various domestic offices at home with her mother, she will find her knowledge of housekeeping limited when thrown upon her own resources; and if this be true, how will it be with those who have no knowledge, no experience, but who have been taught to consider a total ignorance of all the domestic arts something of which to be proud ?

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With regard to a plan of household work. Whether an establishment be large or small, positive rules should be laid down for observance in all that relates to the comfort of the family and the dispatch of the work. The old adage "A place for everything, and everything in its place," is not half understood or appreciated, until each member of a family puts everything they use in its place the moment they are done with it. The result will be convincing in the amount of domestic worry avoided and labor lightened. " But the tact to manage a household in an orderly manner doesn't always come with the knowledge of its necessity, nor even with the desire on the part of the mistress to so manage. She must understand thoroughly how to control her servants." The management of the servants being the management of the house itself. In engaging them, try to discover whether they are competent to fulfill the particular duties to be required of them. There will be no difficulties in this if they are really competent. Then agree to pay them what their competency is worth. RECIPE FOR ORDERLY DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT. Let the mistress of the house take two pounds of the very best self-control, one and a half pounds of justice, one pound of consideration, five pounds of patience, and one pound of discipline. Let this be sweetened with charity, let it simmer well, and let it be taken daily; in extreme cases in hourly doses, and be kept always on hand, then the domestic wheels will run quite smoothly. " Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." TIT. ii., 9, 10. KEEPING HOUSE. THE experiences of housekeeping are invaluable. They give a mental and physical training one can obtain in no other way. , Boarding is a poor way of living as compared with housekeeping. By all means keep house, even though in a small way. No young housekeeper need be discouraged if she does not at once succeed in everything she attempts. With experience only, and with the cultivation of good judgment, will the desired results be accomplished. No rule, no recipe can be so exact as not to require the use of judgment. Conditions vary. Circumstances are not always the same. Emergencies will arise when the use of quick wit and tact will be necessary to keep the wheels of the household machinery from being clogged, or from stopping entirely. Nowhere will there be so excellent an opportunity for the cultivation of wit and tact as in housekeeping. It is considered by some to be dull and prosaic, fit only for menials. On the contrary, the mistress of a household has great resources at her command, and great services to perform. She is queen of a small realm which she may make an Arcadia, if she will. But this requires time. . Not all at once do we reach any much desired end. However thoroughly a young woman may have been taught to perform various domestic offices at home with her mother, she will find her knowledge of housekeeping limited when thrown upon her own resources; and if this be true, how will it be with those who have no knowledge, no experience, but who have been taught to consider a total ignorance of all the domestic arts something of which to be proud ?

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