Household Management (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Household Management<br><br>My dear Madam:<br><br>A large number of subjects must necessarily be considered under so broad a head as Household Management. It is impossible to treat all exhaustively in these lessons. The attempt has been made to select the vitally important points to be emphasized and so to treat them as to make them suggestive and helpful both in their application to your needs and in stimulating desire for further study and experiment.<br><br>Conditions for home-making differ so widely in different parts of the country that no two housekeepers have exactly the same problems, although general principles may be the same. Your most interesting study, if you make the lessons as helpful as may be, will be in testing and adapting the principles set forth according to your particular circumstances.<br><br>One of the greatest charms about most successful homes is their individuality, while one of the things to be deeply regretted is the tendency of many women towards imitation regard less of whether the thing imitated is fitted to their standard of life or not.<br><br>The purpose of our lessons is to make such suggestions as may be helpful to you in working out your individual problems more successfully in the light of others experience, rather than to state any fast-bound rules to which one must conform to succeed.<br><br>There is a great scarcity of available material from which to draw.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.