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Caper-Sauce

by Fanny Fern

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Preface — Editors
  3. 3My Notion of Music
  4. 4“Budding Spring” — In the City
  5. 5A Peep at Boston
  6. 6Blackwell’s Island
  7. 7Shall We Have Male or Female Clerks?
  8. 8Unknown Acquaintances
  9. 9Life and Its Mysteries
  10. 10Mrs. Washington’s Eternal Knitting
  11. 11The Woman Question
  12. 12Two Kinds of Wives
  13. 13Undertakers’ Signs on Churches
  14. 14A Voice From the Skating Pond
  15. 15The Sin of Being Sick
  16. 16Are Ministers Serfs?
  17. 17Blaming Providence for Our Own Faults
  18. 18A Chapter on Nurses
  19. 19Do American Women Love Nature?
  20. 20Rainy-Day Pleasures
  21. 21Chit-Chat With Some of My Correspondents
  22. 22My Liking for Pretty Things
  23. 23Unsought Happiness
  24. 24Dignity of Human Nature
  25. 25All About Doctors
  26. 26Letter to Henry Ward Beecher
  27. 27The Amenities of the Table
  28. 28Many Men of Many Minds
  29. 29My Notion of a Walking Companion
  30. 30Men Teachers in Girls’ Schools
  31. 31My Call on “Dexter”
  32. 32The Poetry of Work
  33. 33Can’t Keep a Hotel
  34. 34New Clothes
  35. 35How I Read the Morning Papers
  36. 36Betty’s Soliloquy
  37. 37My Dreadful Bump of Order
  38. 38“Every Family Should Have It”
  39. 39Getting to Rights
  40. 40Modern Martyrs
  41. 41Writing “Compositions”
  42. 42Nice Little Tea-Parties
  43. 43A Sleepless Night
  44. 44Women’s Need of Recreation
  45. 45The Good Old Hymns
  46. 46A Stranger in Gotham
  47. 47My Journey to Quebec and Back Again
  48. 48Idle Hours at Our Own Emerald Isle, the Gem of the Sea
  49. 49Some City Sights
  50. 50Dog-Days in the Mountains
  51. 51Spring in the City
  52. 52Waifs
  53. 53Tact
  54. 54The Infirmities of Genius
  55. 55A Trip to the Caatskills
  56. 56The Trip to Brompton
  57. 57Lake George Revisited
  58. 58Cookery and Tailoring
  59. 59Up the Hudson
  60. 60“Why Don’t I Lecture?”
  61. 61In the Cars
  62. 62Petting
  63. 63My Grievance
  64. 64Cemetery Musings
  65. 65The Scrubbing-Brush Mania
  66. 66Sauce for the Gander
  67. 67My First Convert
  68. 68Country Housewives
  69. 69First Morning in the Country
  70. 70Conscience Killing
  71. 71The Cry of a Victim
  72. 72Stones for Bread

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