A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
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Beecher Catharine Esther. A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE PECULIAR RESPONSIBILITIES OF AMERICAN WOMEN
CHAPTER II. DIFFICULTIES PECULIAR TO AMERICAN WOMEN
CHAPTER III. REMEDIES FOR THE PRECEDING DIFFICULTIES
CHAPTER IV. ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY AS A BRANCH OF STUDY
CHAPTER V. ON THE CARE OF HEALTH
BONES
MUSCLES
NERVES
BLOOD-VESSELS
ORGANS OF DIGESTION AND RESPIRATION
OF THE SKIN
CHAPTER VI. ON HEALTHFUL FOOD
CHAPTER VII. ON HEALTHFUL DRINKS
CHAPTER VIII. ON CLOTHING
CHAPTER IX. ON CLEANLINESS
CHAPTER X. ON EARLY RISING
CHAPTER XI. ON DOMESTIC EXERCISE
CHAPTER XII. ON DOMESTIC MANNERS
CHAPTER XIII. ON THE PRESERVATION OF A GOOD TEMPER IN A HOUSEKEEPER
CHAPTER XIV. ON HABITS OF SYSTEM AND ORDER
CHAPTER XV. ON GIVING IN CHARITY
CHAPTER XVI. ON ECONOMY OF TIME AND EXPENSES
CHAPTER XVII. ON HEALTH OF MIND
CHAPTER XVIII. ON THE CARE OF DOMESTICS
CHAPTER XIX. ON THE CARE OF INFANTS
CHAPTER XX. ON THE MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN
CHAPTER XXI. ON THE CARE OF THE SICK
CHAPTER XXII. ON ACCIDENTS AND ANTIDOTES
CHAPTER XXIII. ON DOMESTIC AMUSEMENTS AND SOCIAL DUTIES
CHAPTER XXIV. ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES
CHAPTER XXV. ON FIRES AND LIGHTS
CHAPTER XXVI. ON WASHING
CHAPTER XXVII. ON STARCHING, IRONING, AND CLEANSING
ON IRONING
CHAPTER XXVIII. ON WHITENING, CLEANSING, AND DYEING
ON COLORING
CHAPTER XXIX. ON THE CARE OF PARLORS
CHAPTER XXX. ON THE CARE OF BREAKFAST AND DINING-ROOMS
CHAPTER XXXI. ON THE CARE OF CHAMBERS AND BEDROOMS
CHAPTER XXXII. ON THE CARE OF THE KITCHEN, CELLAR, AND STOREROOM
ON THE CARE OF THE CELLAR
STOREROOM
CHAPTER XXXIII. ON SEWING, CUTTING, AND MENDING
CHAPTER XXXIV. ON THE CARE OF YARDS AND GARDENS
CHAPTER XXXV. ON THE PROPAGATION OF PLANTS
CHAPTER XXXVI. ON THE CULTIVATION OF FRUIT
CHAPTER XXXVII. MISCELLANEOUS DIRECTIONS
NOTE
A GLOSSARY. OF SUCH WORDS AND PHRASES AS MAY NOT EASILY BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE YOUNG READER
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The author of this work was led to attempt it, by discovering, in her extensive travels, the deplorable sufferings of multitudes of young wives and mothers, from the combined influence of poor health, poor domestics, and a defective domestic education. The number of young women whose health is crushed, ere the first few years of married life are past, would seem incredible to one who has not investigated this subject, and it would be vain to attempt to depict the sorrow, discouragement, and distress experienced in most families where the wife and mother is a perpetual invalid.
The writer became early convinced that this evil results mainly from the fact, that young girls, especially in the more wealthy classes, are not trained for their profession. In early life, they go through a course of school training which results in great debility of constitution, while, at the same time, their physical and domestic education is almost wholly neglected. Thus they enter on their most arduous and sacred duties so inexperienced and uninformed, and with so little muscular and nervous strength, that probably there is not one chance in ten, that young women of the present day, will pass through the first years of married life without such prostration of health and spirits as makes life a burden to themselves, and, it is to be feared, such as seriously interrupts the confidence and happiness of married life.
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"The gradual developement of the equality of conditions, is, therefore, a Providential fact; and it possesses all the characteristics of a Divine decree: it is universal, it is durable, it constantly eludes all human interference, and all events, as well as all men, contribute to its progress."
"The whole book, which is here offered to the public, has been written under the impression of a kind of religious dread, produced in the author's mind, by the contemplation of so irresistible a revolution, which has advanced for centuries, in spite of such amazing obstacles, and which is still proceeding in the midst of the ruins it has made.
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