And so far, if a woman is physically able, temperamentally adjustable, and adequately trained for household tasks, she can in the vast majority of cases serve her day and generation in no better fashion than by assuming and carrying the multiple duties of the private home.
Hence, although freedom means new choice, prudence and affection alike oftenest point to the old paths of family service for the average woman.

As Mrs.Abel well says of the competent housemother who chooses full and personal service to the home and the family, "At her best she represents individual effort fully utilized.

She fits her tasks together; she utilizes bits of time; she invents short cuts in her work," Of such it may be truly declared, in the new time as in the old, that she translates every dollar of the family income into many dollars' worth of comfort, of health, and of happiness.
=Is It Bad Form to Earn After Marriage ?=--One more consideration, quite new in its full significance, should be given place in any discussion of the wife's relation to work outside the home.

That consideration is concerned with the use of her time not needed in household tasks.

The modern aids to those tasks, of which mention has been made, give many women who assume full responsibility for the housemother's work a considerable amount of strength and time which may be used in some chosen way outside the strictly family service.
The general idea is that such time should be given in gratuitous "social welfare work" or in some form of activity divorced from regular vocations.