There is little saved by giving paltry wages; a useful servant will not accept them, and those who do, cannot clothe themselves respectably on six or seven pounds a year, and will too often eke out their means by peculation. It is well to begin with moderate wages, as nine or ten pounds, and promise an annual increase, which promise both induces a wish to please, and takes away one great excuse for leaving, viz., a desire of “bettering herself.” The amount of the income will determine what sum can be allowed per annum for housekeeping, for besides, there will be clothing expenses to be provided for, sundries of various kinds, expenses of illness, on which we must all reckon, and there _ought_ to be a reserve fund regularly laid by to provide for any unforeseen emergency, or form the “nest egg” of a provision for a rising family. Well, suppose the sum determined! the next question is, how to apportion it so as to combine economy with comfort, and secure a regular and uniform style of living, not luxuries to-day and parsimony to-morrow. Now, how can our young housekeeper do this if she knows little or nothing of the prices of provisions; if she scarcely remembers when things are in season and may be purchased at a reasonable rate, and when they are actual extravagances; if she has no idea what quantity of this or that ought to be consumed, by a family of a certain size, per week or per month; and, above all, if she has little aptitude for domestic management, and considerable contempt for all such vulgar details? Few who have read that truthful sketch of Dickens’s, the “child-wife,” will forget the pretty helplessness of Dora; but, although this reads well in a novel, very few such girls, and there are many of them, will meet with husbands as indulgent; for men do like to see their home well ordered, and to feel the comforts of good management.