My observation convinces me that conscientious housewives in servantless or one-servant households, with work adjusted to a given end, with relative values already determined upon, are not prepared by acceptance of the Adamistic theory to return to primitive occupations.

It carried joy to thousands of households, bringing back to them the long-separated brother or parent, and it was a token of future peace and contentment.

Eivé, you may remember, has, as your companion, made acquaintance with many households whose heads you do not believe friends to you or the Zinta.

There are those among your subjects who are not the cowards you find around your throne, who are not brutal in their households, not incapable of tenderness and sacrifice for others.

It must have been a pleasant visitor in the four or five households which it has entered.

Lady Herschel is the head of the houseso is Mrs. Airyso, I suspect, is the wife in all well-ordered households!

And so meekness, an even temper, and a gracious tongue, will help us to keep our place among our fellow-men with true dignity and independence, and to govern our households, and train our children in such a way that while they obey us they will love and respect us at the same time.

It was my dad's idea that I should put into practice immediately the vermiculture that I had learnt, since managing garbage is becoming a problem in almost all households.

This prejudice often gave rise to singular scenes, more especially in the households of those who habitually laboured in company with their slaves.

He doubtless loved this child of his old age with exceeding tenderness, devotion, and intensity; and what was perhaps still more weighty, in that day of polygamous households, than mere paternal affection, with Isaac were identified all the hopes and promises which had been held out to Abraham by God himself of becoming the father of a mighty and favored race.

They swarm in great tenements like flies; six households will live in a garret.

It is the sore of households, gentlemen; you must avoid it like the plague.

"In middle-class households, bickering; among fashionable people, adultery.

In fashionable middle-class households, either one or the other and sometimes both.

It is a good thing, however, to have some simple, easily-prepared food as a regular stand-by from day to day, just as porridge is in some households, and bacon and eggs in others.

In some households the problem is solved by subsisting solely on certain approved kinds of biscuits, one I heard of keeping exclusively to Shredded Wheat Biscuits and Triscuits, while another stood by the "Artox" Biscuits.

Like most of the Moroccan slaves, even in the greatest households, she was shabbily, almost raggedly, dressed.

Women spun for their own households, and the term spinster was introduced.

Until a few years ago all of the manufacturing was done in the households by hand work.

In times of pressure households were reduced, servants dismissed, horses sold, carriages suppressed.

In households where servants are kept, the slate will save many a vexatious blunder and unnecessary call to the kitchen, while if one is herself mistress, cook, and housekeeper, it may prove an invaluable aid and time-saver if thus used.

OIL AND GAS STOVES.In many households, oil, gas, and gasoline stoves have largely taken the place of the kitchen range, especially during the hot weather of summer.

In the majority of households it is, however, the method least depended upon, because the ordinary steamer over a pot of boiling water requires too much attention, takes up too much stove room, and creates too much steam in the kitchen, to prove a general favorite.

A HANDY WAITER.In many households where no help is employed, a labor-saving device like the one represented in the accompanying illustration, will be found of great service.

She had had children, assorted colorshad one with her now, the black boy that brought the basil to Joseph; the others were here and there, some in the Grandissime households or field-gangs, some elsewhere within occasional sight, some dead, some not accounted for.