A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl; Or, Margaret's Saturday Mornings

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Caroline French Benton. A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl; Or, Margaret's Saturday Mornings

CHAPTER I. MARGARET'S CHRISTMAS TREE

CHAPTER II. THE KITCHEN FIRE

CHAPTER III. THE DINING-ROOM TABLE

CHAPTER IV. WASHING DISHES

CHAPTER V. THE CARE OF THE BEDROOMS

CHAPTER VI. SWEEPING AND DUSTING

CHAPTER VII. THE BATHROOM; BRASSES, GRATES, OILCLOTHS, AND VESTIBULE

CHAPTER VIII. HOUSECLEANING; CELLAR AND ATTIC

CHAPTER IX. LAUNDRY WORK

CHAPTER X. THE LINEN CLOSET; PANTRIES; POLISHING SILVER; THE CARE OF THE REFRIGERATOR; CLEANING THE LAMPS

CHAPTER XI. MARKETING AND KEEPING ACCOUNTS

CHAPTER XII. THE DAY'S WORK

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Although Margaret had become pretty well acquainted with the kitchen during the year she was learning to cook she had never quite understood how to manage the kitchen range or the fire, because Bridget always attended to that part for her. But at the very first lesson in the Saturday Morning Class her mother, who was to be the teacher that day, said the subject would be "Ranges and Fires," because it was the beginning of all housekeeping.

Margaret put on her biggest, longest-sleeved gingham apron, got a hearth brush, a dust-pan, the little dish which held the stove blacking, brush and polisher, rolled up her sleeves and prepared to listen.

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"Now leave the drafts all open just a moment," said her mother, "to let the coal gas burn away, and then you can shut the fire up and it will keep just right for hours. And one thing more – never let the coal come up near the covers of the stove, or the great heat will warp these and spoil them; they will always have cracks around their edges, and the heat will be wasted."

"Bridget never lets her fire go out at night," said Margaret, as she shut the fire all up. "She likes to keep it a whole week and then let the stove get cold and make it all over again on Saturdays."

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