Occupations > Frugal housewife

HOUSEWIFE.
the garden, and pick cranberries from the
meadow, to be carried to market.
Provided brothers and sisters go toge¬
ther, and are not allowed to go with had
children, it is a great deal better for the boys
and girls on a farm to be picking blackber¬
ries, than to be wearing out their clothes in
useless play. They enjoy themselves just as
well; and they are earning something to buy
clothes, at the same time they are tearing
them.
It is wise to keep an exact account of all
you expend—even of a paper of pins. This
answers two purposes; it makes you more
careful in spending money, and it enables
your husband to judge precisely whether his
family live within his income. No false
pride, or foolish ambition to appear as well
as others, should ever induce a person to
live one farthing beyond the income of which
he is certain. If you have ten shillings a
day, let nothing but sickness induce you to
spend more than nine shillings ; if you have
five shillings a day, do not spend but four ;
if you have half that sum a day, be satisfied
to spend less.
To associate with influential and genteel
people with an appearance of equality, un¬
questionably has its advantages ; particu¬
larly where there is a family of sons and
daughters just coming upon the theatre of
life ; but, like all other external advantages,
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