Every good housekeeper is a rule to herself, because her only definite aim is to please the people for whom she is keeping house. The truth is that no particular rules can be given, and dogmatism on the subject is impossible. To live within one's income, not to be too close nor too wasteful, not to buy only the cheapest food, &c., &c., such axioms, though they are - incontrovertible, tell one nothing. They consisted chiefly of generalizations, with as much application here as there, and would arouse, we think, no very great interest anywhere. A short time ago there appeared in the Press an account of the conclusions reached on this subject by a select committee of colonial women in Kenya. WHAT are the essentials of good housekeeping ? At first sight one might be tempted to think that they depended upon locality, but they do not seem to do so upon investigation.
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