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to fashion neatly fitting garments, and to perform efficiently the many
duties that pertain to homemaking.
To the health and happiness of the whole family nothing is more
vital than skill and intelligence on the part of the cook. By ill-prepared,
unwholesome food she may hinder and even ruin both the adult’s
usefulness and the child’s development. Or by providing food adapted
to the needs of the body, and at the same time inviting and palatable,
she can accomplish as much in the right as otherwise she accomplishes
in the wrong direction. So, in many ways, life’s happiness is bound up
with faithfulness in common duties
Give Attention to the Principles of Hygiene—The principles of
hygiene as applied to diet, exercise, the care of children, the treatment
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of the sick, and many like matters should be given much more attention
than they ordinarily receive
In the study of hygiene the earnest teacher will improve every
opportunity to show the necessity of perfect cleanliness both in per-
sonal habits and in all one’s surroundings.... Teach the pupils that a
healthful sleeping room, a thoroughly clean kitchen, and a tastefully
arranged, wholesomely supplied table will go farther toward securing
the happiness of the family and the regard of every sensible visitor
than any amount of expensive furnishing in the drawing room. That
“the life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment” [
Luke
12:23
] is a lesson no less needed now than when given by the divine
Teacher eighteen hundred years ago
A Young Lady Counseled to Acquire Habits of Industry—You
have peculiarities of character which need to be sternly disciplined and
resolutely controlled before you can with any safety enter the marriage
relation. Therefore marriage should be put from your mind until you
overcome the defects in your character, for you would not make a
happy wife. You have neglected to educate yourself for systematic
household labor. You have not seen the necessity of acquiring habits
of industry. The habit of enjoying useful labor, once formed, will
never be lost. You are then prepared to be placed in any circumstances
in life, and you will be fitted for the position. You will learn to love
activity. If you enjoy useful labor, your mind will be occupied with
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