EVERY DAY LIFE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 250, 15 July 1908, Page 5

EVERY DAY LIFE.

■ -When -.ono see's a: .bride; charming 1 and dainty in her white. robes, one can hardly associate her with )the prosaic,, necessary. work of: housekeeping, such as falls to the' lot of the average woman, and perhaps all her life long she '.never gets the fill] -credit and- realisation of the resource arid .generalship that housekeeping calls for. According to,a. writer,;in the'" Sydney.Morning •Herald;"/'marriage "spells-hard work, andiit is well to. be : reconciled 1 to/ the fact ".from the first;' The necessity .of combining a siren and a household drudge is one of the most difficult complications in the . profession ,of being'a woman. Almost every woman coujd be one or. the other—she pould be a perfect charmer or a; good freehand cook—but when she; tries to combine combing hor golden ; jocks ' and -makingpastry she; bungles the :job: ; She'.gets;hair':'in the dough/and/dough in : .:her; hair,:sp'to-speak.Still another attribute' of the 'good wife .is! the .'ability to work financial miracles, and out of. a , few shillings s t'o'".take up seven' bask'etf uls :of bargain-counter remnants:.: We talk a.gieat deal -about -our wonderful financiers,' . but. .they: are simply not in it with' the amnion or garden ; variety of woman who, ■on an allowance of £3 a week; keeps a good-table, dresses well, goes to the theatre, and has a : real lace'cap:,for.,'the: baby.. -• -