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Motherly talks with young housekeepers : embracing eighty-seven brief articles on topics of home interest, and about five hundred choice receipts for cooking, etc. / by Mrs. H.W. Beecher [sister-in-law of Harriet Beecher Stowe].

Henry Ward Beecher · 1873 · Scanned text · Free in the US

180,846 words · about 12 h 40 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Henry Ward Beecher
Language
English
Published
1873
Length
180,846 words · about 12 h 40 min
Sections
46 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (46)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Part I. Motherly Talks With Young Housekeepers about 1 min
  3. Contents about 10 min
  4. I. System In Work about 5 min
  5. II. March about 6 min
  6. III. Spring Labor about 4 min
  7. IV. Sunshine And Fresh Air about 10 min
  8. VI. Washing-day about 6 min
  9. VII. Putting Clothes To Soak about 4 min
  10. VIII. Patient Continuance In Well-doing about 7 min
  11. IX. Preparing For The Country about 3 min
  12. X. Heedlessness about 10 min
  13. XII. June Cares about 5 min
  14. XIII. Pure Air And Thorough Ventilation" about 5 min
  15. XIV. Milk And Butter about 6 min
  16. XV. Making Cheese about 6 min
  17. XVI. A Troublesome Question about 7 min
  18. XVII. Woman's Kingdom about 4 min
  19. XVIII. The Kitchen about 6 min
  20. XIX. How Much Is A Wife Worth ? about 6 min
  21. XX. Teach Little Boys To Be Useful about 5 min
  22. XXI. Bleaching, Starching, And Removing Stains about 9 min
  23. XXII. To Iron Shirts, Vests, And Embroideries about 6 min
  24. XXIII. A Talk About Beds about 5 min
  25. XXIV. Marketing about 7 min
  26. XXV. Teust Your Childeen about 7 min
  27. XXVI. Who Invented Bread? about 9 min
  28. XXVII. How About The Little Girls? about 14 min
  29. XXIX. Fall Cleaning about 7 min
  30. XXX. Fashionable Dress about 6 min
  31. XXXI. Lessons By The Wayside about 6 min
  32. XXXII. Pauline Pry about 7 min
  33. XXXIII. Buy Your Cage Before You Catch Your Bird about 4 min
  34. XXXIV. Care In Selecting A House about 4 min
  35. XXXV. Visiting For One's Own Convenience about 7 min
  36. XXXVI. Will They Boaed, Or Keep House 1 about 8 min
  37. XXXVII. Choice Of Colors In Dress about 7 min
  38. Xxxviii. Haemonizing Coloes In Dress about 5 min
  39. XXXIX. A Woed About Moths about 5 min
  40. XL. Winter Butter about 7 min
  41. XLI. Repairs about 6 min
  42. XLII. Accurate Weights And Measures In Cooking about 4 min
  43. XLIII. Teaching Little Giels To Sew about 6 min
  44. XLIV. The Care Of Poultry about 12 min
  45. XLVI. Great Mistakes about 4 h 28 min
  46. Part II. Choice Family Eeoeipts about 3 h 38 min
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Front matter

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Part I. Motherly Talks With Young Housekeepers

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I. System in Work . ^

II. March ^

III. Spring Labor '^1

IV. Sunshine and Fresh Air 1*

V. House-cleaning ■'■'

VI. Washing-day 21

VII. Putting Clothes to soak 25

YIII. Patient Continuance in Well-doing 28

IX. Preparing for the Country 32

X. Heedlessness 35

XI. Washing Flannels 38

XII. June Cai-es 42

XIII. Pure Air and thorough Ventilation 46

XIV. Jlilk and Butter 49

XV. Making Cheese .53

XVI. A troublesome Question 57

XVII. Woman's Kingdom 63

XVIII. The Kitchen 66

XIX. How much is a Wife worth '?' 70

XX. Teach little Boys to be useful 74

XXI. Bleaching, Starching, and removing Stains ... 78

XXII. To iron Shirts, Vests, and Embroideries .... 84

XXIII. A Talk about Beds 88

XXIV. Marketing 91

XXV. Trust your Children 96

XXVI. Who invented Bread? 100

XXVII. How about the little Girls? 107

XXVIII. Stealing Servants 112

XXIX. Fall Cleaning 117

XXX. Fashionable Dress 122

XXXI. Lessons by the Wayside 126

Contents

XXXTI. Pauline Pry ....

XXXIII. Buy your Cage before you catch your Bird

XXXIV. Care in selecting a House .

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