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274 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Household Economy. A Manual Schools inte...
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In this interesting and delightful book , to which we heartily commend our readersMary Anne Galton _broiight up from the dark
storehouse of memory , , ere she died , pictures of men and women of the old regimewhich though far more limited in extent than the
, entertaining pages of Madame D'Arblay , please us in a greater degreebecause they are infused with a finer taste , a wider
knowledge , , and an infinitely deeper sense of the great ends of human
existence .
274 Notices Of Books.
274 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
Household Economy. A Manual Schools Inte...
Household Economy . A Manual Schools intended for Female Training Maria Brewster Colleges ,
E and dinburg the Senior h : Constable Classes of and Girls Co . ' ; liondon . : Adains By Margaret and Co . . That this little book has already attained to a second - edition , is in
itself ample proof of the need there was for it , and the able way in which that need is met . In addition to considerable personal
experience Miss Brewster has availed herself of the best works published upon the various subjects of which she treats , and the result
is a plain , practical hand-book wherein what we eat and drink is carefully analysed and considered , and _varioiis suggestions are
offered for the better and more economical preparation of food , and the consequent improvement of health . One chapter , devoted to
clothing , gives admirable directions as to shirt-cutting and makingand the knitting of stockings , a branch of home industry
, well worth the cultivation of working men ' s wives , mothers , and sisters ; one pair of knitted stockings outwearing half a dozen
purchased at shops , to the saving of time , temper , and money . The advice to household servants is friendly and judicious , as will be seen
by the following words upon _< < _THOUGHTFULNESS . "
rig " ht This time is is a the great secret and not rare onl _qualit y of y being in . a servant a good . servant To think , but of of things being at good tlie The htful servant considers what her
for mistress anything lilies in and any wh position y she likes . it , and thoug what else she would probably like , without being , at the trouble to order it , —she does not let the fire go out on a cold day , nor heap it into a furnace on but a remembers hot one , —she how does it not arrange the to
stand furniture ; her differently design is every to save morning trouble , , " not to give it . By thoug ought htfulness always and the consideration few which she can will be also interchanged be shewing between kindness rich , that and blessed poorhi g g ift h , and —one low of
, , young and old . " The management of fowls , pigs , and hens follows , nor are the
purse " and the sick room forgotten . With much that is already pretty generally known we find
interspersed valuable and pleasant information , thus : Dead " The Sea fabled andwhile ' apples ifted _^ of Sodom with a , ' beautiful said to grow exterior on the to turn shores to dust of and tlie
ashes when , cut , open , —are g in reality the fruit of a species , of egg-plant which
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/58/
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