Produced by David Garcia Charles Franksand the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamPractical Suggestions for Mother and HousewifeBy MARION MILLS MILLER Litt DEdited by THEODORE WATERSContentsCHAPTER ITHE SINGLE WOMANHer Freedom Culture a desideratum in her choice of work Daughters asassistants of their fathers In law In medicine As scientific farmersPreparation for speaking or writing Steps in the career of ajournalist The editor The Advertising writer The illustratorDesigning book covers PatternsCHAPTER IITHE SINGLE WOMANTeaching Teaching Women in Society Parliamentary law GamesBookreviewing Manuscriptreading for publishers Library workTeaching music and painting Home study of professional houseworkThe unmarried daughter at home The woman in business Her relationto her employer Securing an increase of salary The woman ofindependent means Her civic and social dutiesCHAPTER IIITHE WIFENatures intention in marriage The womans crime in marrying forsupport Her blunder in marrying an inefficient man for loveThe proper union Mutual aid of husband and wife Manipulating a husbandBy deceit By tact Confidence between man and wifeCHAPTER IVTHE HOUSEElement in choice of a home The city apartment Furniture for atemporary home Couches Rugs Bookcases The suburban and countryhouse Economic considerations Buying an old house Building a new oneSupervising the building The womans wishesCHAPTER VTHE HOUSEEssential parts of a house Double use of rooms Utility of piazzasLandscape gardening Water supply Water power Illumination Dangersfrom gas How to read a gasmeter How to test kerosene Care of lampsUse of candles Making the best of the old houseCHAPTER VIFURNITURE AND DECORATIONThe qualities to be sought in furniture Homemade furniture Semimadefurniture Good furniture as an investment Furnishing and decoratingthe hall The staircase The parlor Rugs and carpets Oriental rugsFloors Treatment of hardwood Of other wood How to stain a floorcoveringCHAPTER VIIFURNITURE AND DECORATIONThe carpet square Furniture for the parlor Parlor decoration Thepiano The library Arrangement of books The Den The livingroomThe diningroom Bedrooms How to make a bed The guest chamberWindow shades and blindsCHAPTER VIIITHE MOTHERNursing the child The mothers diet Weaning The nursing bottleMilk for the baby The babys table manners His bath Cleansinghis eyes and nose Relief of colic Care of the diaperCHAPTER IXTHE MOTHERThe school child Breakfast Luncheon Supper Aiding the teacherat home Manual training Utilizing the collecting mania Physicalexercise Intellectual exercise Forming the bath habit TeethingForming the toothbrush habit Shoes for children Dress HatsCHAPTER XCARE OF THE PERSONThe mothers duty toward herselfHer dress Etiquette and good mannersThe Golden Rule Pride in personal appearance The science of beautyculture Manicuring as a home employment Recipes for toiletpreparations Nailbiting Fragile nails White spots Chapped handsCare of the skin Facial massage Recipes for skin lotions Treatmentof facial blemishes and disorders Care of the hair Diseases of thescalp and hair Gray hair Care of eyebrows and eyelashesCHAPTER XIGENERAL PRINCIPLES OF COOKINGThe prevalence of good receipts for all save meat dishes Increasedcost of meat makes these desirable No need to save expense by givingup meat The Government Cook Book Value of the cuts of meatCHAPTER XIIGENERAL PRINCIPLES OF COOKINGTexture and flavor of meat General methods of cooking meat Economiesin use of meatCHAPTER XIIIRECIPES FOR MEAT DISHESTrying out fat Extending the flavor of meat Meat stew Meat dumplingsMeat pies and similar dishes Meat with starchy materials Turkishpilaf Stew from cold roast Meat with beans Haricot of mutton Meatsalads Meat with eggs Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding Corned beefhash with poached eggs Stuffing Mock duck Veal or beef birdsUtilizing the cheaper cuts of meatCHAPTER XIVRECIPES FOR MEAT DISHESProlonged cooking at low heat Stewed shin of beef Boiled beef withhorseradish sauce Stuffed heart Braised beef pot roast and beef a lamode Hungarian goulash Casserole cookery Meat cooked with vinegarSour beef Sour beefsteak Pounded meat Farmer stew Spanish beefsteakChopped meat Savory rolls Developing flavor of meat Retaining naturalflavors Round steak on biscuits Flavor of browned meat or fat Saltpork with milk gravy Saltfish dinner Sauces Mock venisonCHAPTER XVHOUSEHOLD RECIPESVarious recipes arranged alphabeticallyINTRODUCTIONWhat a tribute to the worth of woman are the names by which she isenshrined in common speech What tender associations halo the names of_wife mother sister_ and _daughter_ It must never be forgottenthat the dearest most sacred of these names are in origin connectedwith the dignity of service In early speech the wife or wifeman womanwas the weaver whose care it was to clothe the family as it was thehusbands duty to feed it or to provide the materials of sustenanceThe mother or matron was named from the most tender and sacred of humanfunctions the nursing of the babe the daughter from her original dutyin the pastoral age of milking the cows The lady was socalled from thesocial obligations entailed on the prosperous woman of loafgivingor dispensing charity to the less fortunate As dame madame madonnain the old days of aristocracy she bore equal rank with the lord andmaster and carried down to our better democratic age the copartnershipof civic and family rights and dutiesModern science and invention civic and economic progress the growthof humanitarian ideas and the approach to Christian unity are allcombining to give woman and womans work a central place in the socialorder The vast machinery of government especially in the newactivities of the Agricultural and Labor Departments applied toinvestigations and experiments into the questions of pure foodhousehold economy and employments suited to woman is now directed morethan ever before to the uplifting of American homes and the assistanceof the homemakers These researches are at the call of every housewifeHowever to save her the bewilderment of selection from so many usefulsuggestions and the digesting of voluminous directions the fundamentalprinciples of food and household economy as published by the governmentdepartments are here presented with the permission of the respectiveauthorities together with many other suggestions of utilitariancharacter which may assist the mother and housewife to a greaterfulfillment of her office in the uplift of the homeCHAPTER ITHE SINGLE WOMANHer FreedomCulture a Desideratum in Her Choice of WorkDaughtersas Assistants of Their FathersIn LawIn MedicineAs ScientificFarmersPreparation for Speaking or WritingSteps in the Careerof a JournalistThe EditorThe Advertising WriterTheIllustratorDesigning Book CoversPatterns      She keeping green  Loves lilies for the one unseen  Counselling but her womans