BRIDES AS HOUSEKEEPERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14523, 19 August 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

BRIDES AS HOUSEKEEPERS.

1 hanks to the general intelligence of young women, to domestic training in schools and good management at home most brides find comparatively little ditf.etilty iu solving the nrohlcni of housekeeping. The most disastrous mistakes are not made- hv .'girls who have been brought up on a "lavish scale, and who leave a background of liberality m expenditure and begin their housekeepeiiiK on a .small income. The girl who has never had to consider ways and means at homo, and who steps without much delav from the platform of her college, graduation to life in a bit of a cottage or a tiny apartment, is often far more successful in her newrole than the girl who has been a-small-wago earner from the time she left school -until her marriage day writes Margaret E. Songster in the "Woman's .tome 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 niauy"of the young girls are factory operatives, it is a matter ol comment that these voun" women do net seem to take easily or' successfully to housekei'nhi" 1 hen' tune has been, arranged bv a cast-iron schedule. They have worked I'iery day and all day ma. round of monotonous tois. doing ouc thin- over and over, and the result i s that thev do not know how to do several thin-s at their own discretion. Thev do not know how- to purchase provisions to cook or to. sew. The bride ~'f povorlv e- ten continues to make mistakes iii the line- of waste, until her husband and herself are eoual'Jv di-vouncod The girls who steps "from a home'of wealtn has. had onrrari unities of ci-'iie'c oWvatior, and an all-round education; which for her arc valuable assets Such % g r.J™ ay "! : ? Ty "*- man whoso sal.irv ol £ooo or £4uo a year is altn.«<rhc'iin contrast with, tho large income of her father, and, if - need be and *.he is sensible and. capable, she will keep within he,- income, do her mvn work and p,-ovi. herself a notable housekeeper. 1,, the surprise, it mav be, of her mother.

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