Brides As Housekeepers

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7871, 5 August 1911, Page 13

Brides As Housekeepers

THANKS to the general intelligence of young women, to domestic training jn schools and good management at home, most brides find comparatively little difficulty in solving the problem of housekeeping. The most disastrous mistakes are not mado by girls who have been brought up on a lavish scale, and who leave a background of liberality in expenditure and begin their housekeeping on a small income. Xhe girl who has never had to consider ways and means at . home, and who steps without much delay from the jdatform of her college graduation to life in a bit of a cottage or a tiny apartment, is often far more successful in her now xolo than the girl who has been a smallwago earner from the time she left school until her marriage day, writes ‘Margaret .11. Sangstcr in tho "'Woman's Homo Companion/' In certain communities where a local industry, as the manufacture of gloves or shoes, occupies most of the marriageable women, or where a great many the young girls aro factory operatives, it is a mat-

ter of comment that these young women do not seem to take easily or successfully to housekeeping. Their time has been arranged by a cast-iron schedule. They have worked every day and all day in a round ot monotonous toil, doing one thing over and over, and tho result is that they do not know how to do several things at their own discretion. -They do not know how to purchase provisions, to cook or to sow. Tho brido of poverty often continues to make mistakes in tho line of waste, until her husband and herself are equally discouraged. Tho girls who steps from a home of wealth has had opportunities of change, observation and an all-round education, which for her arc valuable assets. Such a girl may many a man whose salary of «£3lX> or .ff-tOO a year is altogether in contrast with the large income of her father, and, if need be, and she is sensible and. capable she will keep within her income, do her own work and prove herself a notable housekeeper, to the; surprise, it may be, of her mother.