n her knowledge and ability to handle an income.
She should read the best books and magazines on household management.
If the girl has no books of her own she should ask for advice and help
at the public library.

The home maker has many interests and an endless variety of duties.
She needs to study--and if need be to take some action to try to
control--the sources of food supply for her household. She must decide
what manufacturing work should be done in the house. Are bread and cake
to be baked at home? What preserving and canning are to be undertaken?
How much clothing is to be made in the house, either with or without help?
In every case the decision has to be made according to individual
requirements. It may pay one home maker to bake her own bread; in the case
of another, her time and strength may be needed in other ways. The problems
of mending, and of taking proper care of household furnishings, are part of
the duty of the home maker. She should also be an expert buyer, and should
be able to judge of the quality and price of fabrics and of their
suitability. If she employs a houseworker, she must be able to plan the
work of her helper. It is important that the home maker should be fair to
everyone whom she employs. Wages, hours, food and shelter, treatment and
standing, should all be of the best character that she can give. The very
nature of a home is based on right human relations. Nothing that is
unjust or unkind should be tolerated in the management of the home or
its relationships. The home is not managed for profit, but for human
well-being. This fact alone places the work of the home maker among the
first and best employments.

By far the most important function of the home is the care and training of
children. No girl or woman can have too great a talent, or too careful a
training, or too fine a personality, to devote all she has to the care of
little children. It is a very wrong thing for anyone to undertake
ignorantly, or to fail to be interested in, the best care of the health
and feeding of infants and their early training. All girls who have had
anything to do with the care of babies know how very delightful babies are,
and how worth while it is to take care of them and to win their affection.

The twentieth century girl has to deal with two aspects of home-making,
one of which is an old aspect revived, while the other is a principle new
in its application to the work of the home. We have been taug