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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