I've kept the little housewife you made me and bound with your cherry-colored hair ribbon until it is in rags, but I love it still.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Do what she will, the best housewife cannot free it of oil and soot.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
At first she had been surprised at the suggestion of going anywhere without him, but he had told her that she was going to learn to be like Mrs. Cameron-a good housewife-so that she could look after him and their home as well as a grown woman; and she was delighted at the idea.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard