1. What are some details in this image that suggest the middle-class homemaker near the center of the advertisement is successfully managing the work of her "help"?

2. What are some ways in which the cook and laundress are depicted as stereotypes?

3. What are some differences in the clothing, hair, and body positions of the four women figures in this advertisement that suggest a hierarchy of authority and control in this domestic space? Be specific and consider linking your comments to both social class and ethnicity differences.

4. What are some ways in which the home depicted in this advertising card differs from what Hunter, Sterling, and Stowe might argue was typical in the nineteenth century? Along those lines, beyond having a cleaner wash, what are some of the implied benefits, for the middle-class lady homemaker, of purchasing Borax laundry soap?