Household duties exercise the muscles and are invaluable if performed in properly ventilated rooms. Unfortunately, however, many prospective mothers sacrifice their own health and that of their unborn children on the altar of domestic neatness. During pregnancy a woman should simplify her household management, even if this step involves packing away bric-à-brac and rolling up rugs. This is no time for a woman to be self-sacrificing, and yet it often amounts to an obsession with her. I have seen such mothers performing heavy household duties, which other members of their family would gladly have assumed. I have seen them strain muscles and eyesight to embroider or trim raiment for the older children, and I have seen them carefully select the choicest bits of food at table for husband or growing child, when the mother should have, for her own health and that of her unborn child, the very best which the family purse can afford. This spirit of martyrdom may give a certain amount of mental satisfaction to the woman who practises it, but it is harmful to the unborn child and is really a symptom of mental disturbance not to be encouraged. The actual physical comfort of the mother means much to the child. If there is any time when a woman has the right to allow herself time to care for her body, money to purchase easy clothes and small personal luxuries, it is when she is carrying a child. Bathing is a luxury which many overworked home-makers deny themselves. The expectant mother should _make_ time to take a daily bath. If there is a stationary tub in the house, this bath may be of the sort which is most comforting to her: a tepid bath before retiring or a cool bath on rising. When there are no bath and plumbing in the house, the mother should have a portable tub in her room, in which she can sponge off quickly with tepid water, followed by brisk rubbing with a Turkish towel. A warm bath with soap should be taken twice a week, but very hot or very cold baths must be avoided. Bathing is important because it keeps the pores of the skin open. It is estimated that at least a pint of waste matter is thrown off each twenty-four hours through open pores. There is danger for mother and child if this waste matter is permitted to clog the former’s system.