The Business Of Home Management PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X LOVE AND HOME "Love is the life of man" There are those who would reduce the entire Efficiency System and all of its principles, into the one quality called Common-Sense. If you have this, you have it, say they; if you haven't, you haven't, and that's all there is about it. Just as there are those who say the whole subject of the home and the family, the children and society, is a matter of simple Love. If love is present, all is well. If there be little, or no love, the situation is hopeless. There is of course truth in these statements, for in the last analysis all success depends upon the individual passion that is back of every effort, and the simple quality of knowing how. These, however, are no more to be considered mere gifts from Heaven showered only upon the elect and withheld from the multitude, than that Heaven itself is designed for the few who are labeled at birth, and Hell for the others. Some kind of a personal effort must be made in order to arrive at any state of well-being, and the higher the state, the more difficult the road. While it is easy to agree with those who say these great virtues are the simple essential conditions, it is incomprehensible to think they cannot be arrived at through a right kind of education and discipline. What is common-sense, except the faculty of being able to assemble all the known sides of a given subject and act in accordance with one's innate estimate of what is practical? While the tendency for self-preservation is strong and often expresses itself in quick decisions that seem to result from little or no preparation, no man can tell what has been the connection between another and his environment; his observation, attention, comparative quality, and memory may have been...