Ethics of Household Economy: a Help to Inexperienced Wives and Discourage Mothers; Economy is Time, Strenth, Money
Chicago, Illinois: Justitia Publishing Company. Hardcover. Olive green cloth boards, gilt titles, no dust jacket. 222 pp. Unillustrated. Good, front and back hinges split, not loose. From the Winterthur library, with several cover labels and an envelope inside back cover. Item #131392
An ambitious title! In the language of the time, well-intentioned advice from our ancestral mothers. A cultural gold mine, at times humorous, useful (e.g. cleaning the cellar and the attic), and perhaps even revelatory as we see we are not as different as we might think from people over a century ago.
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