This interested piece is from and old book called "The Young Housekeeper's Friend" by Mrs. Cornelius.
Written in 1850 I thought everyone would enjoy this piece about being a proper homemaker!

" A symmetrical education is extremely rare in this country. Nothing is more common than to see  young ladies, whose intellectual attainments are of a high order, profoundly ignorant of the duties which
 all acknowledge to belong peculiarly to women. Consequently, many have to learn, after marriage,  how to take care of a family; and thus their housekeeping is, frequently, little else than a series of
experiments; often successful, resulting in mortification and discomfort in the parlor, and waste and  ill temper in the kitchen.
How often do we see the happiness of a husband abridged by the absence of skill, neatness,  and economy in the wife! Perhaps he is not able to fix upon the cause, for he does not understand minutely enough the processes upon which domestic order depends, to analyze the difficulty; but
 he is conscious of discomfort. However improbable it may seem, the health of many a professional man  is undermined, and his  usefulness curtailed, if not sacrificed, because he habitually eats Bad Bread.  If this subject has a direct bearing upon the health of families, so also does it exert an immediate  influence upon their virtue. There are numerous instances of worthy merchants and mechanics,  whose efforts are  paralyzed, and their hopes chilled by the total failure of the wife in her sphere of duty;
and who seek solace under their disappointment in the wine party, or the late convivial supper. Many a day  laborer, on his return at evening from his hard toil, is repelled by the sight of a  disorderly house, and a comfortless supper; and perhaps is met by a cold eye instead of the "thrifty wife's smile;
and he makes his escape to the grog shop, or the under-ground gambling room. Can any human agency hinder  the series of calamities entailed by these things? No! the most active philanthropy, the best schemes of
organized benevolence, cannot furnish a remedy, unless the springs of society are rectified. The domestic  influence of woman is certainly one of these. Eve woman is invested with a great degree of power over the
 happiness and virtue of others. She cannot escape using it, and she cannot innocently pervert it.  There is no  avenue or channel of society through which it may not send a salutary influence; and  when rightly directly, it is unsurpassed by any human instrumentality in its purifying and restoring efficacy.