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cookery. Manu has said:
Susanlcritopaskarya
With the knowledge of good cook-
ing the bride assumes the role of a housewife.
Thrift and economy
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A housewife has to learn how to budget her house-
keeping for the purpose of economy. One must not
spend without exercising care so that other necessities
in the house are found wanting. A housewife should
be so meticulous in her housekeeping that at any time
when an article is required it could be produced.
This does not mean that you must purchase without
discretion and use up the goods lavishly. It is the duty
of a housewife to have all the essential commodities at
home and to use them with economy. Once again
one has to be careful not to be unduly strict so that
when the need arises the hou sewife may hesitate to
produce the things required. Therefore it is said:
Do not sit and be like the foolish honey bee,
Which has never learnt to give or itself take;
Within your means charity should be given,
But watch its not the undeserving beggar's
basin,
The deceiver is given milk again and again,
While the old sannyasi is served with roasted
agrain.
Also let not there arise such a situation,
That you give all and be left in starvation.
A woman is given the name
grihini
because she is
handed over to her husband who accepts her hand.
Just a moment ago the bridegroom in accepting the
hand of the bride said, TITrinfli
ife
bTii?drzr arl:,
gribhnami le soubhagatwoya hastam,
meaning, "I am