Domestic Doings.

In fact it's a wise wife who knows her own husband. She's prone to give him minus marks for domestic doings; but she never knows what he can do about the house because he never has to do it until she goes away from the house and leaves him to it. That is when he calls up all his latent ingenuity and initiative in the interests of energy conservation and self preservation. He may not stalk the darkling dust to its lair; his methods may be high, wide and handsome. But he puts dull care on the spot and speeds the carking chore.

Why, he asks, become a slave to habit—a disciple of dish-water, a mopmoper, a vacuum votary, a carpet snake and a floor-flounderer?