The average period which a girl gives to this kind of labor is probably less than five years.

What she learns has little or no relation to her future as a housekeeper--indeed, the tendency is rather to unfit than to fit her for a home.
But why is the American woman not stirred by these facts?
Why does she not recognize their meaning and grapple with her labor problem?
It is certain that at the beginning of the republic she did have a pretty clear idea of the kind of household revolution the country needed.

Our great-grandmothers, that is, the serious ones among them, made a brave dash at it.

There is no family, at least of New England tradition, who does not know the methods they adopted.

They changed the nomenclature.
There were to be no more "servants"-- we were to have helpers.