The making of the home : a reading-book of domestic economy for school and home use / by Mrs. Sameul A. Barnett.

  • Barnett, S. A., Mrs.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The making of the home : a reading-book of domestic economy for school and home use / by Mrs. Sameul A. Barnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    responsibility. If tbe woman lias the power, she has also the task of .deciding- how to use it. And to do this she must educate herself : she must learn all she can, she must think long- and carefully, so as to be sure that she is not using- her power for her own happiness, but for the good of the larger world, and the other lives which are being lived outside her home. Womam’s duty, though it begins in the home, and though it may seem to keep her continually in it, does not end there. The motto which is at the head of this chapter speaks of the nation as being based on its home, while another author tells us that (through the home) it is “ the woman’s duty to assist in the ordering, in the comforting, and in the beautiful adornment of the State/'’ I have quoted you these words to show you what great men think of womair’s work and the- influence of the home; and because I think that if you have these great aims in view, you will not weary of learn- ing how to make a good home, nor tire of the details which tell how women’s household work is to be done. Every one can do work, however tiresome, easily and gladly if the object to be obtained by it is great and valuable • enough—and so, now that they have these noble ends in view, I trust my pupil girls will apjdy their minds to these sixty lessons, the object of which is to teach them how to turn a house into a home.
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