Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Economy of money, labor and time for the housekeeper and her family was the main object of this book. Time is money is a truth so trite that attention is hard to attract to its value, yet we believe that there is to be found in this handbook hundreds of ways of doing big and little things about the home that will keep the house hold pocket book from rapid shrinkage. No self laudatory comparisons with other reference books on household economies are considered, as this collection of practical facts holds a position apart from previously published volumes on this most important subject.
