Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III MANAGING, AND LITTLE LEAKS CHAPTER III MANAGING, AND LITTLE LEAKS Managing is the art and science of using to the best advantage what has been brought into the house. There is no part of the household economy where it is not called upon, no part which is not the better for what New England means when it says of a housekeeper : " She has faculty." Solomon knew her in his time and she to-day is the woman who " looketh well to the ways of her household." It is interesting to notice how like the twentieth- century manager is to this old-time woman in essentials, though conditions have changed so greatly. Read the last chapter of Proverbs and learn what she was and -is. Managing means the charge of waste as well as the first use of everything. It is in the department of management that the wreck of the home happiness comes and financial anxiety with an incompetent manager. A good manager keeps things comfortable. Her mind is easy and therefore she produces ease. She needs no advice but gives it to those who cannot manage time, duties, or money successfully. System is the secret of good management, and it extends to the smallest detail of home affairs. It softens greatly the jolts of difficult experiences. She who has learned to prevent little leaks in the home has learned how to make the dollars count for one hundred cents. So many of them are there that one might fill a large book with a list of them. One great mistake for the would- be devotee of thrift is to cook too much at once. Monotony in diet spoils the appetite, the digestion, and wastes the food cooked, for it is refused. Sometimes it is well to cook in large quantities, for many things need hours for their cooking, and it is as cheap to cook much as only what will be used at a single time. T...