But the average housekeeping, married woman, although both worker and producer, is not a wage-earner, although more and more, as the home industries become specialized is she becoming a wage-earner for at least part of her time.

Housekeeping as a business is a dark mystery to her.

We both hate being lazy, and a little housekeeping and farm managing will be good practice for us during our honeymoon.

It may be true that home-making in the non-material sense is an art, but housekeeping nowadays is a science; and so much a science that a woman who has the chance of making herself an expert will be tempted to make housekeeping a career, and to undertake the job on a much larger scale than is needed in the ordinary house.

Housekeeping was "woman's sphere," although I had never then heard the words, for no woman had gotten out of it, to be hounded back; but I knew my place, and scorned to leave it.

She was more and more careful not to mention "Them," and, as always, her housekeeping was a wonder and a delight.