House-wife

But let us paſs over the Sacred Hiſtories, and give me leave (following the Proverb, which ſaith, We muſt learn the manners of our Predeceſſors, and practice according to the preſent age) to lay out unto you the wayes how a good Houſe-wife (as to thoſe particular things belonging to her Charge) ſhall Order and Govern a farm, as that it may keep and maintain with the Profit and Increaſe thereof, her Husband, and all his Family, which ſhall be hereafter declared in this Tract of The Office of the good Houſe-wife; […]

How many are there not Houſe-Wives, but Drones rather? Living wholly on the Sweat of their Husbands browes, as the Drone doth on the Honey that the Bee maketh and bringeth in?

My own hand / Shall do the houſe-wife’s work, ſhall ſpin and knit, / And earn by induſtry ſufficient bread.

The boys are destined to become expert seamen, and the girls skilful, sensible, industrious house-wives,—nothing more.

She is a very expert and industrious house-wife; her great economy is very remarkable; she is almost always first up in the house, and sees that every one gets his food properly.

Mr. Slocomb had been a thrifty inhabitant of the Empire State, the owner of a fine farm, stocked with fine cattle, and plenty of them, the husband of a thrifty, prudent, industrious house-wife, and the father of a fine lot of boys, of several ages, from two to twelve.

How concentrated and how pungent are the fiction and romance displayed by the average waitress, all expert house-wives know too well, and too much to their own cost. She can tell more short stories in a month about teacups shedding their own handles, about dinner[-]plates nicking each other, and about wine[-]glasses breaking themselves, than the reviewer could notice in these columns in a year.