4. What is meant by the ethics of shopping? 5. What important facts should you have in mind in buying table linen? 6. What knowledge should you have before going to purchase a silk dress? 7. What will you think about in selecting colors for your garments? 8. Mention five important facts to remember in purchasing wool fabrics. 9. How does the United States government protect itself in the purchase of textiles? 10. What knowledge should a wise shopper possess? CHAPTER XXII HOUSEWIFERY This old-fashioned word is used here to include the methods and processes connected with the actual work of the house, excepting the cookery, sewing, and laundering, which have fuller treatment elsewhere. This department of household management is a combination of sanitation and the economics of labor. =Order in place.=——Keep articles of a kind together conveniently arranged in places set apart for them, these places to be easily accessible. Make an inventory of household goods in a card file,——household linen, personal apparel, including lists of clothing put away for summer or winter, dishes, and valuables. Each housekeeper must make a scheme that suits her own needs, but a few suggestions may be helpful. Keep _bed linen_ and _towels_, piled preferably on shelves, near bedrooms and bathrooms, marked and numbered. Put the clean underneath when they come from the laundry. _Clothing_ should be kept in an orderly way by each member of the family. Winter clothing and furs should be cleansed for putting away, protected from moths by wrapping in paper, hanging in tar bags, putting in cedar chests, or in trunks with some strong odored substances,——moth balls or cedar oil. Camphor is too expensive. Summer clothing should be washed and put away unstarched and unironed. _Dishes and silver_ should be carefully arranged in very definite places, and counted often enough to keep account of breakage and loss. [Illustration: FIG. 79.——Madam, who keeps your house? _Courtesy of the Woman’s City Club, Chicago._] _Brooms_, _brushes_, _dusters_, and _cleansing materials_ should have a place of their own, well ventilated when possible, and all articles put away clean.