As we shall have occasion to make further remarks on the management of servants, when treating of the business of the _Housekeeper_, we beg leave, in order to avoid repetition, to refer to that subject, under the head—HOUSEKEEPER. “Economy,” says Mr. Cobbett, “is management.”—The fact is, that _management and regularity, is Economy verified by practice_; and all persons ought to regulate their conduct by circumstances. A moderate income, appropriated to the expenses of housekeeping with prudence and economy, without _parsimony_, but banishing _superfluities_ and _preventing waste_, may be made sufficient to furnish every comfort in life; and, strange as it may appear to those in affluence, an income of from 150l. to 200l. a year, will be enough to maintain a man and wife, with two or three children, and a servant girl; _nor “beyond that amount, need they spend one shilling per week_, whatsoever may be their income.” It is an excellent plan to have a set of rules for regulating the ordinary expenses of a family, (such as are given in the Appendix to the PRACTICAL ECONOMY,) in order to check any innovation or excess, which otherwise might, unawares, have occurred to derange the proposed distribution of the annual income. The mistress of a family will always recollect that, _in all cases_, the welfare and good character of her household depends on her own active superintendance. Though habits of domestic management are now generally precluded in the education of young ladies of the superior class, yet, happily, attention to family concerns is not unfrequently found in those of less exalted rank, whose minds, amidst the blandishments of modern accomplishments, have been taught to relish, as in days of yore, the more rational, solid, and lasting pleasures, of a social and comfortable home. And were young ladies early instructed in the delights of domestic occupation, before they enter the delusive scenes, presented by modern modes of dissipation, we should probably find the number of votaries to private happiness greatly increased, and a life of domestic employment would become the source of numberless gratifications. In short, were they on all occasions, when at home, under the immediate eye of their mother, to be taught the science of practical economy—the business of examining and keeping accounts,—and a few other of the leading points in the management of a family, they would imperceptibly become competent, and the happiest results, as to their future conduct in life, might be most pleasingly anticipated. Many families have owed much of their advancement in life to the propriety of female management.