There is only one safe government for the household, and it is autocratic—and the lady of the house must be the autocrat. Her work is to spend the family income, to rear the children, and to manage her husband, consequently she must hold the reins of the domestic autocracy.
System tHE Secret The women at home who are facing a most difficult servant problem have learned to systematize the management of the household as their husbands systematize the management of their offices. Domestic science and modern apphanoes have fortunately taken! from the home housekeeper many of her one-time departments. The sensible woman who has a sense of. values and a progressive mind longer bothers with home preserve ing and such labour as can better be done by establishments that have specialized in certain lines of industry. The high-grade tinned fruit and vegetables are far in advance of anything that the housekeeper can have done in a small way. I have been in homes where the autocrat has worried herself and her servants to exhaustion in order to produce a row of bottles filled with "home-made" preserves. This preserving is only one instance the old-fashioned regime which happily is dying out.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.