Also, let all girls learn knit ting while young, as a reserve and a comfort to them when they are old or ill. But lam not writing a dissertation on needlework, so I Jmusb pass on to other subjects, and hasten to end my remarks. To know thoroughly the duties of servants, and to be abe to keep the expenses of housekeeping low, and yet to have good wholesome meals putrupon the taV_, are jgiffcs not given to. all, nor are.they Ij be ac quired by instinct. The higher education teaches 'girls none of these things. It is well for girls to goto the Sohoolof Cookery, and learn there ithe art of cooking, for it is an experience that ;may be useful to them ; but it is the theory which, I hold, in this" case is of far more .value than the practice. Few ladieß can take possession of their kitchen habitually, and do their own cooking, for few cooks would remain in such a situation- but every lady 'can and should be the mistress of ber cook, and yet I fear more cooks than ladies have the upper hand in the management of the menage. '•. A very little teaching would ahow a girl the necessary, proportion of. things used in kitchens; and, this thoroughly learned, how much waste would be saved, how much ex travagance oheoked in the cooks! The cook may be honest, but people in her class have Very little power of brain, and eggs are broken, and bones thrown away, and butter insed with a reckless hand, not always from wantonness, but from want of thought No cook ought to be allowed any authority of her •own ; she should aot entirely under her mis jtress'or ders; and to insure this, it is well that the jlady should enter in a book daily what may be ■required for the house, and weekly bills from 'tradesmen being insisted upon, the lady should jcarefully look over every item inserted in them -with her book, and she will thus keep a jcheck upon the cook and know her own [expenses. As a beginner, it is a good fashion ,'for a housekeeper to go herself to shops for ■the day's necessaries. Muoh economy and juseful knowledge is acquired by Beeing the •meat cut, and it is a good way Of learning the of meat required, for. 