CHAPTER I. At the Very Beginning – Dividing the Income
CHAPTER II. Saving for Staples – The Kitchen – Buying – Linen
CHAPTER III. Arranging the Meals – Cooking-Dresses – The Table – The Dinner
CHAPTER IV. Soups and Meats
CHAPTER V. Vegetables, Salads, Desserts
CHAPTER VI. Breakfast, Luncheon, Supper – Odds and Ends
CHAPTER VII. The Emergency Closet – Winter Preserves – Cake
CHAPTER VIII. The Game of Menus
CHAPTER IX. Two Dinner Parties
CHAPTER X. Reducing Expenses
CHAPTER XI. Luncheons for a Little
CHAPTER XII. In the Country
CHAPTER XIII. Midsummer Housekeeping – The End of the Holiday
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The very next day the two lady-maids went seriously to work on their problem of living on a little. They arranged for a woman to come one day in the week and wash, do a little cleaning for perhaps an hour while the wash was drying, and then iron the heavy things; the next morning the sisters were to finish up the light and dainty things left over, the napkins, pretty waists, handkerchiefs, and odds and ends; these would take only an hour or two after the regular routine of bed-making, dusting, and brushing up the hardwood floors was out of the way, and this in their small, convenient apartment was no great task.
After everything was in order, they sat down with books and pencils to lay out a sort of campaign for the winter.
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"Fred simply adores baked beans," Dolly murmured, parenthetically, hanging on her sister's words.
"You can't afford to bake them in the gas-oven, because it takes a whole day or night; and of course you can't well bake things in the fireless stove. At least, you cannot make them crisp and brown there, though you can cook them in it. So you put this stove on the zinc table, light the Rochester burner which is attached to a lamp underneath, and then let it go on and bake for you without any attention. It will bake the beans a beautiful and artistic brown, and the kerosene in the lamp will cost you about two cents. Now are not my stoves worth their weight in gold? And if you are too poor to buy them, one of their greatest attractions is you can make two of them yourself. Take a wooden pail with a cover, and make hay-pads for your fireless stove, and get a real tin cracker-box and put a lamp under it for the Aladdin oven, and you will have good substitutes for both these."
