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COOK-BOOK
II House And Home
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What is a “Cottage?”—Barbarism of White Paiut and Green Blinds.— Exscind “ Massive ” and “Rich.”—Hard-Wood Floors, and Painted Boards.—Sanitary Rugs and the Week’s Work.—Carpets.—Farmeress and Her “ Taypestry Brus¬ sels.”—Cheap Carpets a Blunder—English Ingrain.—Mattings-—Styles and Prices.—Shades and Curtains.—Straw Chairs.—Sets and “ Setts. ”—YouRSELF, Your Mark.—Books are Aristocrats.—Bamboo Settee and Cushions.—Domestic Upholstery.—Trunk Eounges.—Cheese-Box.—Covered Bath-Tub.—How to take off the Edges of the Strictly Useful.—Bed Coverings.—Table-Ware, Cheap and Pretty.—Extremes of Scantiness and Crowding.—Jumble of Ornaments.— Seasoning, to taste.
Loveless Marriage, Legalized Crime.—Thoughtless Marriage, Sinful Folly.—Truest- Happiness Found in Marriage.—The Ideal Marriage.—Nice Every-Day, Pretty Well-Satisfied Couples.—The Great Majority of Couples.—A Good Thing that Might be Made Better.—The Great Stumbling Block. The Family Income.— The Scorpion-Lash that Drives Wives Mad.—John Has His Say.—Why a Woman Minds Asking for Money.— Wives Should not Mind Being Treated as Paupers, But they do. —An Ill-Favored Curling.-“Man the Bread Winner; Woman the Bread Eater.”—The Old, Old, Hateful Story.—“ Ole’ Marster an’ My Chillun.” —Mrs. A. and Her Dividends.—Charley’s Whim.—Mrs. B. and “the SivintyfiveCints.”—Mrs. C. and the Penciled Butcher’s Bill.—Mrs. D and How She Duped Her John.—Mrs. E- and Her Ethics.—A Forgetful Husband.—Mr. F’s Story.—No Shoes to Wear.—A Guild of Privileged Paupers.—Ask Them how They Like It.—Representative John to the Front.—“ Would You Have My Wife Earn Her Own Living ? ” Nine Times Over.—Flattening the Base of the Egg.— Solomon Grundy and His Query.
Another Fellow’s Sister.—Grace Over the Whole Barrel.—Philemon Nemo and Bau¬ cis—Definition of Courtship.—“ Temporary Insanity.’’—Breakfast in the Nemo Household.—The Scalded Hand.—Then and Now.—Sentiment Dies Hard in Women.—Cup and Tumbler.—“ Brute ” and “Boor.”—Sketches from Life.—A Savage in Every Man.—Not a Trial Effort.—Model Daughter and Gray-haired Father.—Company and Every-Day Manners.—The Inference is Patent.—One of Two Things is Wrong.—The Responsibility of Wives in this Matter.—” Only My Wife.”—Baucis a Cipher.—The Husband Has Gone Out of the Business — Taking the Boys Down.—Seed of an Ugly Plant—The Toss-and-Tumbfe Style of Home Life—Crockery Platters and Garnished Porcelain—“We Understand Each Other.”—“Hallo, Old Girl!”—Pet Hedgehogs.—Human Pig-nuts.—Sincere and Sweet, and Sincere and Sour.—Hearts Won are Not Hearts Kept.—A Simple Rule of Action.—Rough Words and Smooth.
Contents
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The Vexed Question.—Domestic Service in America . 91
English Journal and American Manual.—“Are there No Servants in the United States ? ’’—English “ Servantgalism ’’—Continental Pikes and Butcher-knives.— Iron and Clay.— Dien.—'^ I Serve.’’—An Obvious Truth.—" Girls.’’—" Her and She.’’—Daughter Robbed.—Mother Robbed and Shorn.—If no Servant, No Mistress.—Bridget, Katrine, and Victoria-Columbia-Celesle.—English Phillis and English Abigail.—Service as Truly a Trade as Millinery.—" IMiss ’’ Howard, Halyburton and Hamilton.—Ellen and the Country Aunt.—" Me Mother’s Sis¬ ter, Mem ! ’’—The Handicapped Mistress.—The Cross of "Diving Out.’’—Is the Situation Hopeless ?—Mrs. Whitney’s " May-be.’’ You Are the Firm.—Auditor and Junior Partner.—The Head the Only Indispensable Member of the Corpora¬ tion.—Belt and Wheel.—A Crying Need.—“ The Girl ’’ Holds the Winning Card. "A Stiff-Ticket.’’—Reference a la mode. —Margaret’s Tricks and Drawbacks.— A Cyclone in Calico .—k Treasure, But Dishonest.—Purblind and Virtuous Complacency.—Only Safe and Honorable Thing To Do.—Nine Cases Out of Ten.—Ten Cases Out of Ten.—Rule that Should Work Both Ways.—The Hard Mistress.—The “ Hard Place ’’ a Small Pox Placard—Curses to be Shunned for Others as for Ourselves.—A Word of Caution—A Paragon in Every Hireling Not To Be Expected.
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Anecdotes Like Comets.—Madame and Monsieur.—Stubborn Effort to Set Other People Right.—Society By the Ears.—Little Foxes.—Story of Vulgar Fellow in His Carriage, and Gentleman Driving a Wagon. — Hard To Allow One’s Friends To Be Mistaken.—A Good Story.—My Neighbor’s Opinions.—Your Sister’s Carpet.—Musician and Mistaken Performer.—Restiveness of Reformer Under Criticism.—Web not of our Weaving, Nor For Our Wear.—Let Others Enjoy Their Opinions.—If They Annoy You, Get Away From Them !
Woman’s Daily Life, One Part Work and Three Parts Worry ; A Man’s, One Part Worry and Three Parts Work.—Men Are Courageous, Women Patient.—“ Not My Way of Doing Business!”—Difference in Man’s and Woman’s Method.— Usually the Woman Has None.—Veteran Housekeepers and Printed Manuals.— ‘‘No Particular Rule. ”—Administration and Execution. ‘‘ Keeps a Dog and Does His Own Barking. ”—Hands and Assistants.—Wife’s Agony of Self-Upbraiding.—• Husband’s Criticism.—The Large Establishment No Exception.—The Most Defenceless Class in the Community.—An Uneasy Ocean Casting.Up Mire and Dirt.—Household Worries Should Be Superficial.—Prince Henry.—Woman in Insane Asylum Polishing One Window-pane.—Type of Thousands.
Is Hospitality a Duty ?—Syllogism.—The Fisherman Apostle.—Latch-string super¬ seded by Spring-bolt and patent Key.—R. S. V. P. The quid pro quo of Receiving and Entertaining.—‘‘Quite one of The Family.”—Young Girls in Virginia Country House.—One Day’s Experience.—Flying One’s Own Colors.—The English Method of Giving Invitations.—Fashion of ‘‘At Home.”—What it Means.—Compliment, Not Slight.—Unconscious Impertinence of Coming ‘‘Some Other Time.”—Fatuous Self-Conceit.—Too Much Ceremony.—Benev¬ olent Torture.—Definition of ‘‘a Bore.”—Talent of Entertaining Well.—Visitor of the Spongiest Type.—Roasted Hostess.—The Blessed Three.—A Misnomer.—
‘‘ Hospitate.”—Crust of the Loaf.—Tasteless Shell.—Successful Hosts depend upon Appreciative Guests.—Patronizing Visitor.—‘‘ Can’t you let me off this once ? ” Delicate Flattery.—One Guest, and His Exactions.—The Health-Bread of Another.—Mungo Park and Zulu Woman.—Too Late, and Too Early.—Piano at Dawn.—Do not Gossip of your Host.—Over-Praise is Patronage.—Exertion to be Agreeable.
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With Our Girus.153
“ Heaven Help the Men.”—Requisites for Spinster, and for Wife.— "^Low Our Girl Speaks Her Mind.—Drift of Thistle-Down.—The Man who Knows No Better.—The Man who Means Well.—Free-and-Easy Youth.—Friendship Between the Sexes.—Missionary Work.
Our Voices.j6o
Pompeiian Guide upon American Voices.—Bayard Taylor’s Definition.—‘‘National Catarrh.”—Indignant Divine.—Statesman and Kinsman.—Cause and Possible Cure.—Loudness of Tone.—‘‘Sweet-faced and Shrill-voiced.”—‘‘Peacocks’ Gala-Day.—Family Party at Delmonico’s.—Quality and Key of Voice.—Use of Soft Pedal and Legato Movement.—Heredity.—Ben Jonson and John Sylvester.
How We Speak.167
Common Sense and Sad Experience.—Go Astray as Soon as Born, Speaking Double Negatives.—A ‘‘ Real Lady.”—Magnificent Woman and Her Speech.—Persistent Mangling of Vernacular.—A Mystery.—Self-Made Man and Murdered English.
—Diamonds Set by Blacksmith.—An Anomaly.—People Who-! A D. D.,
F. F. V.—When the Foible becomes Guilt.—No Excuse.—Impossible to Speak Too Well.—What We Owe to Our Mother Tongue, and to Ourselves.
The Candy Curse.173
Candy-Eating Babies.—The Family Sweet Tooth.—Pound a Week.—‘‘Sweeties” Follow Civilization.—Literary Club and Candy.—Girl of Fourteen and Her ‘‘ Bedside Comforter.”—Sugar as an Exclusive Article of Diet.—Dr. Edson’s Analysis of Poisonous Candy.—Natural Taste for Sweets, A Feminine Vice.
With Our Boys.178
william Wirt.—‘‘Small, Sweet Courtesies of Life”—Gentleman of the Old School. —‘‘To Herd.”—Etiquette of Men’s Hats.—Our Boys, and Graceful Ways.— Cheap and Eas}%—Undue Familiarity of Speech Leads to Freedom of Touch.— Bovine Gambols.—‘‘Honored Madam.”—Womankind, and Respect due Them —As Such.
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Anecdote of Boston Clergyman and Deacon.—“The Only Way to Cure Your Boy !’’ —Girls like Hop-Vines, are Brought Up.—Boys Grow Up.—Dick’s Evenings at Home.—Bumptiousness and What It Means.—Dutch Justice.—“ Mothers some¬ how make Allowances for Everything.’’—“ Out Again ? ’’—The Mother’s Reply. —Other Words.
Some Households have None.—Representative Middle-Class Families.—Definition of “Literary.”—Home-Education to School Children.—Rising Man without Early Advantages.—Above the Mud.—Business Man and The Newspaper.— “Fooling over Books.”—Silas Lapham.—“No Time to Read.”—No Higher Mission than the Mothers.—The Mother’s Duty.—The Woman who Will Read. —“ Life Without Letters.’’
Women as Mothers ...... 202
“ Reasons why Women should not Vote.”—The House-that-Jack-built.—A Mystery. —Society Girl.—The Young Wife.—Chronically-fatigued.—No Training for Maternal Office. — The First Baby.—Margaret Fuller’s Cry. — Unique of Motherhood.
Queen.—Mother Nature.—Pair of New Mothers.—All the Difference in the World.— The Wonderful Baby.—Elsie Venner and “Rose-Bud.”—Husband’s Work and The Wife’s.—Living Over Our Own Lives Again.—Plaint over the First-Born. —This Life Worth Living.
V.AGARIES OF THE AMERICAN KiTCHEN . . » . 215
“Twenty-Seven Religions and One Gravy.”—Our Housewife’s Warm, Substantial Breakfast.—Boiled Tea.—“ Some Substance into It.”—Grilled Leather-and-Fat. —Soup and Slops.—Family Pastry.—Fat and Frying-Pan.—Drained Dishes and Undrained Vegetables.—Burnt Toast. Jamestown Tower and Plymouth Rock. —Sooty Idol.—Hope for the National Cuisine.
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Breakfast as it Should Be.223
Our Movable Feasts.—^Jones, Mechanic.—Melchius Jones, Esq., Manufacturer and Millionaire.—Continental Breakfast.—Why We do not Adopt It .—Paterfamilias utters His Mind.—Goblin Care at Early Morning.—Father at Breakfast Behind Newspaper.—Like Spavined Horses.—Bill-of-Fare, and How to Eat Breakfast. —Christianizing Influence of Breakfast-Table.
The Tea Table.231
Yorkshire Tea, Eighty Years Ago.—Our Big and Varied Teas.—Supper.—An Over¬ grown Caricature.—Family Tea versus “Spread.”—Dry, Cold and Cheerless Evening Meal.—Something Better.—“ Our Best China and Sunday Nights.”— Supper-Rolls and Wifely Devotion.—Omelette, rather than Rose-bud.—Means of Grace and Beauty.
What Our Children Eat. 239
Dr. Fothergill upon Food for the Nursery.—“With Impunity.”—Two-Year-Old Baby and Wind-fall Pears.—Whey-faced Three-Year-Old.—Bobby’s Breakfast, Dinner and Supper.—Why the Trial-Balance does not come out Right.— Heredity ? Our British Cousins.—American Lad upon Diet of Princes.—Bobby’s Baby-Brother.
Introduction to Menus. 245
125 Recipes Arranged in Bills of Fare for Breakfast, Luncheon and Dinner.
125 Recipes Arranged in Bills of Fare for Breakfast, Luncheon and Dinner.
125 Recipes Arranged in Bills of Fare for Breakfast, Luncheon and Dinner.
Thanksgiving Dinner . 443
125 Recipes Arranged in Bills of Fare for Breakfast, Luncheon and Dinner.
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Illustrations.
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Withdrawing-Room. ........... 23
Family Sitting-Room. ........... 27
Reception-Room. ..32
Every-Day Service. 45
Sunnybank. Marion Harland’s Summer Cottage. 50
“ I wanted you should see my new carpet! ”....... 55
The Forgetful Husband. 7 ^
Another Fellow’s Sister. ”. 77
“ A Fellows own Sister.”. 77
Wooing. 86
Won. 86
“ Me mother’s sister, ma’am! ” 95
Tommy Snooks and Betsey Brooks,—Sunday. .... . . 106
Tommy Snooks and Betsey Brooks.—Monday. ...... 106
“ I been hear that a wash-lady named Mrs. Johnsing had some clo’es to
bring home for a ’oman named S-. ”. . . . . .114
“ Made too much at Home. ” .......... I 35
Finical Visitor. 146
True courtesy.. I 49
The free-and-easy youth.^5^
Gentleman of the Old School. ......... i 79
The Woman who will Read. ......... ^99
Our Baby..
The American Housewife’s Crest. . . . . • . • • .217
Our American Citizen at Breakfast.228
Our Sabbath-Day Tea..235
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