First Ladies who are devoted entirely to keeping hearth and home are also becoming a relic of the past.

FORBES: First Ladies Have More to Debate Than Cookie Recipes

Rest in the consolatory rhythms of hearth and home, marked out by meals and seasons, or break the pattern and take the unknowable risk?

NEWYORKER: Ring Cycle

Ghalia Mahmoud is what Egyptians fondly call a "Set" - a term reserved for strong women respected for their ability to keep hearth and home together.

BBC: Egypt's chef leading a 'kitchen uprising'

His enthusiastic immersion as a boy in Catalan culture speaking, reading and writing a language that was officially banished under Franco to the hearth and home, wandering in the rugged, piny Catalan landscape reached its natural apogee in preserving, lovingly, what Catalunya tasted like.

ECONOMIST: Santi Santamar��a

Men go off to fight protecting hearth, and home.

FORBES: Memo To The ACLU: Don't Put Women Into Combat

But today, after decades of effort by gun rights activists, the court declared the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right aimed, at the very least, at citizens protecting home and hearth.

NPR: Supreme Court Strikes Down D.C. Handgun Ban

All right, with thoughts like these any man would hurry to his home and hearth.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

One implication: Advertising campaigns that conjure up images of home and hearth might also stimulate the amygdala.

FORBES: Food on the Brain

Many husbands and wives I interviewed offered an additional explanation that housework may be a proxy for a general willingness to invest in shared interests, a symbol of commitment to home and hearth.

WSJ: The Sex-Housework Link