Each day the mistress deals out the requisite flour, butter, eggs, etc., and the cook is perfectly satisfied.

Were a Northern housekeeper to adopt this system she would soon have the misery of engaging new servants.

The Irish and Germans among us are not accustomed to such restrictions, and will not tolerate them.
To utilize the little "left-overs," then, Mary must make up her mind to do much of her own cooking.

If she has a servant in the kitchen, she may frequently so exchange work with her that the preparation of dainty dishes will fall to her share.

Norah may sweep the parlor, wipe up the hall floor, or wash the windows while her mistress is attending to cooking too delicate for the domestic's fingers.