[4] See Proceedings of the Twenty-second National Conference of Charities and Correction, New Haven, 1895, pp. 514 sq.
[5] "Public Relief and Private Charity," p. 105.
[6] See on this subject the Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth National Conference of Charities and Correction at Toronto, 1897, pp. 5 sq.
[7] Miss Z. D. Smith in Report of Union Relief Association of Springfield, Mass., 1887.
[8] "Charities Record," Baltimore, Vol. I, No. 1.
[9] Seventh Report of Boston Associated Charities, p. 39.
{64}
CHAPTER IV
THE HOMEMAKER
The wife brings us to another aspect of the home, though it cannot be too often repeated that all aspects are so inextricably interwoven that they must be considered together. When the wife takes the means provided, the raw material from which a home is to be made, she engages in a very complicated form of manufacture, including in its processes the buying, preparation, and serving of food, the care of the household possessions, the buying, making, and care of clothing, the training of children, and many minor departments. These are only processes, however, and, unless the maker have an ideal picture in her mind of what a home should be, neither some nor all of these processes will make a home.