Physical Care—Intellectual Training—On cultivating Benevolence in Children—Sympathy with Little Ones important—Gentle tones best 401 CHAPTER XXVIII. FAMILY RELIGIOUS TRAINING. Woman’s Responsibility as chief Educator of the Family—The meaning of the Word _Right_—The End, or Object, for which all Things are made, and how learned—Difficulties in interpreting Revelation—Distinctive principle of Protestantism—_Danger_ in the future Life, and different Views—Influence of Belief in Danger illustrated—Rule of Interpretation used in common Life, and to be applied to the Bible—What we must do to be saved—Theories differ, but an agreement in _facts_ revealed—How a Woman must decide for herself and for those she controls 414 CHAPTER XXIX. CARE OF SERVANTS. Distinction between emotional and voluntary Love to others—This the Principle to guide in the Care of Servants—Ladies who do their own Work—Intelligence saves Labor—Benefits of domestic Labor—The Training of Servants a prime Duty of American Housekeepers—Modes of avoiding Difficulties—Rewards of benevolent Care here and in the Life to come 424 CHAPTER XXX. DOMESTIC AMUSEMENTS AND SOCIAL DUTIES. The only proper Object of Amusement—Various kinds that are safe, and others that are wrong, either in Quality or Excess—Hospitality 440 CHAPTER XXXI. LAWS OF HEALTH. The Laws of Health are Laws of God, and should be taught to all Children—Laws of Health for the Bones, Muscles, Lungs, Digestive Organs, Skin, Brain and Nerves, Teeth, Eyes, Hair, etc. 454 CHAPTER XXXII. COMFORT FOR A DISCOURAGED HOUSEKEEPER. Some of the great Trials of American Housekeepers enumerated—How to meet them with Comfort and Success 459 NOTE A 466 INDEX 473 THE HOUSEKEEPER AND HEALTHKEEPER. PART FIRST. CHAPTER I. ADDRESS OF THE AUTHOR TO AMERICAN HOUSEKEEPERS. My dear Friends,—This volume embraces, in a concise form, many valuable portions of my other works on Domestic Economy, both those published by Harper and Brothers and those published by J. B. Ford and Co., together with other new and interesting matter. It is designed to be a complete encyclopædia of all that relates to a woman’s duties as housekeeper, wife, mother, and nurse.