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Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers

by Eunice White Beecher

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  1. 1Publishers’ Preface
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3I — System in Work
  4. 4II — March
  5. 5III — Spring Labor
  6. 6IV — Sunshine and Fresh Air
  7. 7V — House-Cleaning
  8. 8VI — Washing-Day
  9. 9VII — Putting Clothes to Soak
  10. 10VIII — Patient Continuance in Well-Doing
  11. 11IX — Preparing for the Country
  12. 12X — Heedlessness
  13. 13XI — Washing Flannels
  14. 14XII — June Cares
  15. 15XIII — Pure Air and Thorough Ventilation
  16. 16XIV — Milk and Butter
  17. 17XV — Making Cheese
  18. 18XVI — A Troublesome Question
  19. 19XVII — Woman’s Kingdom
  20. 20XVIII — The Kitchen
  21. 21XIX — How Much Is a Wife Worth?
  22. 22XX — Teach Little Boys to Be Useful
  23. 23XXI — Bleaching, Starching, and Removing Stains
  24. 24XXII — To Iron Shirts, Vests, and Embroideries
  25. 25XXIII — A Talk About Beds
  26. 26XXIV — Marketing
  27. 27XXV — Trust Your Children
  28. 28XXVI — Who Invented Bread?
  29. 29XXVII — How About the Little Girls?
  30. 30XXVIII — Stealing Servants
  31. 31XXIX — Fall Cleaning
  32. 32XXX — Fashionable Dress
  33. 33XXXI — Lessons by the Wayside
  34. 34XXXII — Pauline Pry
  35. 35XXXIII — Buy Your Cage Before You Catch Your Bird
  36. 36XXXIV — Care in Selecting a House
  37. 37XXXV — Visiting for One’s Own Convenience
  38. 38XXXVI — Will They Board, or Keep House?
  39. 39XXXVII — Choice of Colors in Dress
  40. 40XXXVIII — Harmonizing Colors in Dress
  41. 41XXXIX — A Word About Moths
  42. 42XL — Winter Butter
  43. 43XLI — Repairs
  44. 44XLII — Accurate Weights and Measures in Cooking
  45. 45XLIII — Teaching Little Girls to Sew
  46. 46XLIV — The Care of Poultry
  47. 47XLV — Institutions for the Education of Women
  48. 48XLVI — Great Mistakes
  49. 49XLVII — Study to Make Home Attractive
  50. 50XLVIII — The Care of Cooking-Stoves and Ranges
  51. 51XLIX — The Old Ways and the New
  52. 52L — A Few Hints on Carving
  53. 53Li — Parental Example
  54. 54LII — True Taste More Effective Than Money
  55. 55LIII — Cooking by Steam
  56. 56LIV — Vegetables
  57. 57LV — Cabbage
  58. 58LVI — Pulse
  59. 59LVII — Pot-Herbs and Salads
  60. 60LVIII — Mistakes in Cooking Vegetables
  61. 61LIX — Divided Family Government
  62. 62LX — How Can We Secure Good Servants?
  63. 63LXI — The Guest-Chamber
  64. 64LXII — The Care of Infants
  65. 65LXIII — Personal Neatness
  66. 66LXIV — Are House-Plants Injurious to the Health?
  67. 67LXV — Bad Butter
  68. 68LXVI — October
  69. 69LXVII — The Slavery of Fashion
  70. 70LXVIII — Pickling and Preserving
  71. 71LXIX — What Has Become of All the Little Girls?
  72. 72LXX — Procrastination
  73. 73LXXI — The Surest Remedy
  74. 74LXXII — A Few Little Things
  75. 75LXXIII — Planning for the Week
  76. 76LXXIV — Shopping
  77. 77LXXV — Dusting
  78. 78LXXVI — A Chapter on Soups
  79. 79LXXVII — More About Soups
  80. 80LXXVIII — Testing Character
  81. 81LXXIX — If We Knew!
  82. 82LXXX — In Such an Hour as Ye Think Not
  83. 83LXXXI — Grumbling
  84. 84LXXXII — Little Foxes Spoiling the Beloved Vine
  85. 85LXXXIII — Waste Not — Want Not
  86. 86LXXXIV — Making Cake and Pastry
  87. 87LXXXV — As Thy Day So Shall Thy Strength Be
  88. 88LXXXVI — What We Know Not Now We Shall Know Hereafter
  89. 89LXXXVII — Until Death Do Us Part
  90. 90Part II — Choice Family Receipts
  91. 91The “Library of Poetry and Song”

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