A Good Housekeeper and Home-maker--What Constitutes a good Housekeeper--Preparation and Selection of Meals--Washing Dishes--Pots and Pans--Dusting and Cleaning--Work Cheerfully and Be Thorough--Don't Be a Dust Chaser--Don't Get the Anti-sunshine Habit--Air Your Rooms--The Ideal Home--The Medical Essentials of a Good Meal--What Makes the Home--Working for Something--The Average Housewife's Existence Is Slavery--What Shall We Work For--Making Ends Meet--Rest and Recreation--Try a Nap--Get Enough Sleep at Night--Go Out of Doors--Take a Vacation Now and Then--Life Insurance--Owning a Home--The Cheerful Wife and Mother--The Indifferent Wife and Mother--Husband and Wife. A GOOD HOUSEKEEPER AND HOME-MAKER.--If the young wife carries out the suggestions made on the preceding pages and thereby contributes her part to establishing the material success of the co-partnership, will she profit in any other way? She will have become a good housekeeper and home-maker. Housekeeping is an acquired art, home-making is a moral quality, an instinct. Housekeeping conducted as an art is superfluous. Home-making is a triumph under any circumstances. There are many good housekeepers; there are few competent home-makers. Housekeeping may easily be overdone; home-making can never be overdone. A beautiful house is not necessarily a beautiful home. Housekeeping should be conducted with a view to home-making and never for any other reason. Sometimes we see housekeeping brought to its highest perfection by the same woman who never did understand the simplest rudiments of home-making. The woman who becomes the victim of the housekeeping mania never realizes it; it is an insidious art. There can be no doubt that a well-kept house is a thing of beauty. So also is a marble statue, but it is cold and bloodless. The young wife must strive to combine the two faculties. She should be an efficient housekeeper in a happy, comfortable home. WHAT CONSTITUTES AN EFFICIENT HOUSEKEEPER?--An efficient housekeeper is one who has acquired the knowledge necessary to perform all the duties of housekeeping, and who executes these duties efficiently, with the least possible expenditure of time and labor. It is an absolute fact that most young wives begin housekeeping with the crudest ideas as to what housekeeping means. It has been pointed out many times, that many mothers bring their daughters up without instructing them in the elementary principles of keeping house. It is nevertheless necessary to repeat this statement over and over again, and to point out the enormity of the injustice done. Even if a daughter is fortunate enough to marry a man who is capable of supplying all the help necessary, a wife should know enough to intelligently discern if the work is properly done. If she does not understand the rudiments of housekeeping, and has no help, her inefficiency may be directly responsible for breaking up the home.