Part of the Library of Work and Play series for children, this book begins with a play-house under a tree and moves step by step to real household management. Later chapters cover planning a home, keeping accounts and a weekly schedule, caring for furniture, upstairs and pantry work, the kitchen and cellar, menus, marketing and cooking.
A detailed picture of how an early twentieth-century American household was run, and who was expected to run it. Download the free EPUB.