The household duties were scrupulously observed, each man assuming his rôle in the complicated ménage.

He came on foot, driving his cow; his wife following in the wagon, with their little stock of household goods,not forgetting his hammer, more potent than Prospero's wand.

She was not much of a scholar, she could not spell as well as a girl in the third standard, she lived a quiet life quite out of the busy world; and yet Grace Darling's name is now a household word.

FOOTNOTES: Thus the Penates, or household gods presided over new-born infants.

"My father, though not a member of any church, was strict in his family discipline in regard to the observance of the Sabbath, the breach of which, on the part of his children, was very apt to be followed by consequences not the most pleasant in the world, for he held that a good switch was an essential article of household furniture, and its occasional use a cardinal principle in the philosophy of family rule.

When there is a period of unusual sickness through the community, not only the doctors have extra tasks, but all household servants as well.

For example, the small household affairs in the flat went on wheels; everything was almost always perfect.

The whole aspect of household work will change when honor-work is given: when home-helpers come up to us, from the truthful and honor-loving class.

None the less 'I have acted', he asserts, 'several Parts of Household-stuff with great Applause for many years: I am one of the Men in the Hangings in the Emperour of the Moon.'

Indeed, on the last occasion, she even ventured to address me, on her own account, with regard to some household matter that needed attention.

"Madame de la Tour sometimes, leaving the household cares to Margaret, wandered out alone; and, amidst the sublime scenery, indulged that luxury of pensive sadness, which is so soothing to the mind after the first emotions of turbulent sorrow have subsided.

Their individual value, as they go out into the world, is to set right values on social customs and decrees; to establish the law of freedom in the home; to lead men and women out of the thraldom of ignorance, vulgarity, hearsay, and "style," into simplicity of living and a sane scale of household expense.

Knapsacks, coats, canteens, handkerchiefs, pots, pans, household utensils, bottles, jugs and caps were everywhere.

I am actually in the melancholy situation of Lord Byron's 'scorpion girt by fire'her circle narrowing as she goesfor I have been pursued by the household troops through every room successively, and begin to think of establishing my métier in the cellar; though I dare say, if I were to fix myself as comfortably in a hogshead as Diogenes himself, it would immediately be discovered that some of the hoops or staves wanted repair."

The bedstead became a household article, no longer looked upon with superstitious awe; and musical instrumentsprincipally of the harp patternbegan to find favor in their eyes, and were passed round from hand to hand, like the drinking-bowl, at their rude festivals.

Queen Margherita of Italy, Queen Elizabeth of Roumania, Queen Alexandra of England, and the Empress Augusta of Germany are all women who have been from their childhood acquainted with simple and practical household tasks.

Mrs. Haywood, however, might have approved of his recommendation, since she happened to be the author of the little manual of household science especially urged upon the females below stairs.

For we may trust dogs who are familiars, with all the household pets; nay more, we can put them upon trust with anything and know they will not touch it, not even if they be starving.

I have "'lost my place, My sweet, safe corner by the household fire, Behind the heads of children'; "

" "In our world," I replied, "I always held that even slaves, so they be household slaves, are secure against gross cruelty.

In her iron and steel manufactures, her agricultural machines, her cutlery, her armament works, her glass works, her aniline dyes, her toys, and her production of a thousand and one articles (like lamps) of household use, she was showing a splendid recordbetter in some ways than England.

There were the engravings which she loved and the pictures her father had brought with him from Europe, and the rare old china and her mother's silver service, and her store of delicate napery and household linen; while every table and chair had a story and the very walls of each room were dear.

"I'll have no interference from you, Miss, with my household arrangements.

Household service is personal service.

In the same category one may find the songs which are peculiar to the women, "couplets with which they accompany themselves in their dances; the songs, the complaints which one hears them repeat during whole hours in a rather slow and monotonous rhythm while they are at their household labors, turning the hand-mill, spinning and weaving cloths, and composed by the women, both words and music.