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is distinctly saved over that spent by one person single-handed. The few 

 minutes spared by a son to turn the mangle while his mother passes the 

 folded linen through the rollers saves far more than half the time otherwise 

 expended by the busy house-mother, besides refreshing her spirit with this 

 little token of kindly feeling. 



Too much emphasis cannot be laid upon the following facts : Where the 

 daily work is divided according to the age. sex. and strength of the members 

 of a household, health is saved. Many girls and women suffer from ill-health 

 and overfatigue for years on end. because it does not occur to their inenkind 

 to lend a helping hand in lifting heavy weights. For example, how many 

 women have lost their capital of health by the constant calls made upon it 

 when cari'ying wood or water, of which the weight would be a mere nothing 

 to the father in his prime, or to the son in the full vigour of early manhood. 



Where, in the desire to make money, hours of work are unwisely pro- 

 longed, or where work suited only to an adult is demanded of a child, false 

 economy of the most short-sighted description is being practised. Again, if. 

 from the same or corresponding causes, sleep is curtailed and recreation is 

 not allowed, the store of energy, a strictly limited quantity, is wasted: and. 

 whatever the amount of our health account, we are no better than spend- 

 thrifts, and. like them, must pay the penalty. 



(Occupied. I Knjdisli Cave Dwellings. (Dt-sortod. I 



All practical tools or devices for the intelligent saving of labour and 

 energy, indoors and out. are a first-rate investment of money: yet in what 

 numerous cases new suggestions for thus economizing our capital of health 

 are regarded with suspicion and dismissed with ignorant contempt ! 



The whole of a later bulletin will deal with this subject. 



THE ART OF THE MODERN HOME-MAKER. 



This may be described as that of beautifying human lives: of placing 

 those over whom she exercises control under conditions which will permit 



