Breakfast, dinner and supper

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Part I.— ETHICS OF EATING. Relation of Food to Health

Pleasures of the Table, Object of Eating, Workers and Food,

Waste of Tissue, Foods for Different Seasons and Climates 17

Foods in General.

Bread Preparations — Corn, Rye, and Oats ; Flesh Meats — Beef, Mutton, Fowl, Fish, Wild Game; Vegetables, Fruit, Eggs and Milk, Combination, Tables ^ 23

Table Etiquette.

True Foundation of Good Breeding, Anecdote from the French,

Company Manners, General Rules, Suggestions 37

The Morning Meal.

Breakfast as it Should Be, Preparations for Breakfast, Etiquette of Breakfast, The Table Arrangements, Breakfast Parties, Seating the Guests, Serving Breakfast, Breakfast Foods, Order of Courses for Breakfast, Bill of Fare for One Week in Each Season of the Year 49

The Mid-Day Meal.

Dinner-time, Home Dinners,' Wine at Table, Luncheon, Informal Luncheon, Decorum of Dinners, The Invitation, Notes of Reply, The Guests, Arrangements of the Table, A Handsome Dinner-table, Dinner a la Hustse, Serving of Dinner, Waiting and Being Waited upon. Calls after a Dinner Party, Dinner Foods, Bill of Fare for One Week in Each Season of the Year. .69

The Evening Meal.

Supper-time and to Whom it Belongs, Home and its Atmosphere,

"Wear a Smile," Setting the Table, Supper Foods 103

Party Suppers,

Evening SoAal Gatherings, their Antiquity, Refreshments and their Preparations, The Supper-room, Invitations, Garden Parties 115

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Viii ^ONJITE^IWS.

New Year's Calls.

Observance iu Washington's Time, Dutch Origin and Customs, Refreshments, Etiquette of New Year's Calls, Preparations for Refreshments 127

How to Carve.

Important Accomplishment, How to Carve Fish, Beef, and Veal, Haunch of Venison, Mutton, and Lamb, Fowl (fully illustrated) . 135

How to Select Meats.

Necessity of Knowledge, Beef, Joints of Beef (illustrated). Veal, Joints of Veal (illustrated). Mutton, Joints of Mutton (illustrated). Lamb, Joints of Lamb (illustrated), Venison, Joints of Venison (illustrated), Uses of Joints, Common Fowls, Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, and Pigeons, Ptirtridges, Pheasants, Plover, Snipe, and Woodcock 142

Part II.— ETIQUETTE. Good Behavior

The True Basis, Lord Chesterfield's Definition, Value of Courtesy, Home Etiquette, The Etiquette of Travel, by Rail, Steamboat, etc 159

Street Etiquette.

Recognition of Friends on the Street, Introductions on the Street,

Walking in Company, Courtesy to the Aged 16G

Etiquette of Public Places.

Attending Church, Public Entertainments, Churcli ISociables and

Fairs, Croquet Parties 171

Behavior at Receptions.

]\I()r)iing Receptions, Musical Receptions, Evening Parties, Duties of Host and Hostess, Duties cf Guests, Conversation, Calls after an Entertainment 177

Wedding Etiquette.

General Rules, Church Ceremonials, Weddings at Home, Calls,

Presents, etc., Wedding Anniversaries 187

Etiquette of Funerals.

Order and Arrangement, Notifying Friends, Floral Dvet^'ations,

Calls on the iJereaved 201

Calling and Visiting, Customs of Good Society, Morning Calls, Calling Rules, Refreshments, Cards, Etiquette of Visiting 204

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Cards and Invitations.

Correct Forms, Invitations to Weddings, Funerals, Evening Par- . ties, etc. Informal Invitations, Etiquette of Cards, Material, Rules, Uses of Cards, Business Cards 210

Riding and Driving.

Rules for Horseback-riding, For Driving 326

Etiquette at Washington.

Special Code, President's Famil}-, New Year's Daj-, Receptions, • Ranl^ 238

General Rules.

Grace of Manner, Gossip, Smoking, Music, etc 231

Maxims of Washington 235

Part III.— HYGIENE OF THE HOME. Diseased and Adulterated Food

Prevalence of Fraud and Disease, Animal Food, Condition of Animals, Pork, Trichiupe (illustration of Encysted Trichinae), Symptoms of Disease Occasioned by It, Decayed Foods, Stale Vegetables, Diseased and Adulterated Milk, Consequences of Using Impure Water, Filtration, Tea and Coffee, Butter, Sugar, Syrup, Candies, Honey, Baking Powders, Canned Fruit and Vegetables, Vinegar and Pickles 243

Warming and Ventilation.

Need of Knowledge, Carbonic Acid Gas, Fire-place, Furnace, Window- ventilation, Appliances for Heating and Ventilation, Ventilating Stove, Poisonous Gases in our Homes, Sensible Hints for Every-day Life 275

Drainage and Sev^^erage.

Necessity of Reform, Proper Location of our Houses, Sunlight, Cellars, Cess-pools, Barn-yards and Out-houses, Commonsense Appliances, Garbage 295

Poisoning, Drowning, and Accident.

To Resuscitate the Drowning, Lightning-stroke, Freezing, Clothes on Fire, Swallowing Foreign Bodies, Choking, Dirt in the Eye, Lime in the Eye, Foreign Bodies in the Ear, Foreign Bodies in the Nose, Accidental Poisoning, Treatment of Poisoning, Methods One to Nine. Table of Poisons and their Antidotes 303

Disinfectants.

Their Nature and Use, Disease Germs in Atmosphere, Often Odorless, Dry Earth, Lime, Pulverized Charcoal, Chloride of Lime, Chloiine Gas, Sulphurous Acid, Copperas, Permanganate of Potash, Ozone 322

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Part IV.— HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS

Good Housekeeping an Accomplishment, Advice, Apportioning Labor, Principles of Housekeeping, Selecting a House, The Kitchen, A Large Pantrj', Unslaked Lime, Furnishing and Decorating, Carpets, Curtains, Heavy Upholster}', Dining-rooms, Servants, Dealing with "Help," General Supervision, The Woman who "Does Her Own Work," Use of System, Try Again, Practical Hints and Suggestions, Dish-washing, Refrigerators, etc.. Forethought and Planning, Don't be a Slave, Entertaining Compan}', Practice Self-control, Take Time to Rest, Fancy-work and its Abuse, The Children 332