Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper
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Arthur Timothy Shay. Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. MY SPECULATION IN CHINA WARE

CHAPTER II. SOMETHING ABOUT COOKS

CHAPTER III. LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT

CHAPTER IV. CHEAP FURNITURE

CHAPTER V. IS IT ECONOMY?

CHAPTER VI. LIVING AT A CONVENIENT DISTANCE

CHAPTER VII. THE PICKED-UP DINNER

CHAPTER VIII. WHO IS KRISS KRINGLE?

CHAPTER IX. NOT AT HOME

CHAPTER X. SHIRT BUTTONS

CHAPTER XI. PAVEMENT WASHING IN WINTER

CHAPTER XII. REGARD FOR THE POOR

CHAPTER XIII. SOMETHING MORE ABOUT COOKS

CHAPTER XIV. NOT A RAG ON THEIR BACKS

CHAPTER XV. CURIOSITY

CHAPTER XVI. HOUSE-CLEANING

CHAPTER XVII. BROILING A LOBSTER

CHAPTER XVIII. THE STRAWBERRY-WOMAN

CHAPTER XIX. LOTS OF THINGS

CHAPTER XX. A CURE FOR LOW SPIRITS

CHAPTER XXI. A BARGAIN

CHAPTER XXII. A PEEVISH DAY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER XXIII. WORDS

CHAPTER XXIV. MAY BE SO

CHAPTER XXV "THE POOR CHILD DIED."

CHAPTER XXVI. THE RIVAL BONNETS

CHAPTER XXVII. MY WASHERWOMAN

CHAPTER XXVIII. MY BORROWING NEIGHBOR

CHAPTER XXIX. EXPERIENCE IN TAKING BOARDERS

CHAPTER XXX. TWO WAYS WITH DOMESTICS

CHAPTER XXXI. A MOTHER'S DUTY

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THIS happened a very few years after, my marriage, and is one of those feeling incidents in life that we never forget. My husband's income was moderate, and we found it necessary to deny ourselves many little articles of ornament and luxury, to the end that there might be no serious abatement in the comforts of life. In furnishing our house, we had been obliged to content ourselves mainly with things useful. Our parlor could boast of nine cane-seat chairs; one high-backed cane-seat rocking chair; a pair of card tables; a pair of ottomans, the covers for which I had worked in worsted; and a few illustrated books upon the card tables. There were no pictures on the walls, nor ornaments on the mantle pieces.

For a time after my marriage with Mr. Smith, I did not think much about the plainness of our style of living; but after a while, contracts between my own parlors and those of one or two friends, would take place in my mind; and I often found myself wishing that we could afford a set of candelabras, a pair of china vases, or some choice pieces of Bohemian glass. In fact, I set my heart on something of the kind, though I concealed the weakness from my husband.

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"Why yes, they are rather pretty, Jane," replied aunt Rachel, a little coldly, as I thought.

"Rather pretty! They are beautiful," said I warmly. "See there!" And I placed them on the dining room mantle. "How much they will improve our parlors."

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