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Title: The housekeeper's companion : a practical receipt book and household physician, with much other valuable information
Year: 1883 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cooking Medicine, Popular Etiquette
Publisher: Chicago, Il. : Mercantile Pub. and Adv. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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a good temper, can never, at anyage, grow ugly—for an intelligent and pleasant expression is initself beauty, and the best kind of beauty. Sad, indeed, is the condition of women in the decline of life ETIQUETTE. 79 when no lights of age adorn them; when, having neglectedin the spring and summer to lay up any stores for the winter thaJis sure to come, they find themselves left in the season of des-olation with nothing to fall back upon but the idle gossip ofthe day—striving painfully to look younger than they reallyare; still haunting balls and parties, and enduring all the dis-comforts of crowded watering-places, long after all pleasure insuch scenes must have passed away. But then they must lin-ger in public because they are miserable at home, having noresources within themselves, and few enduring friends to en-liven them with their society. The woman who knows how to grow old gracefully willadapt her dress to her figure and her age, and wear colorsthat suit her complexion. ^i^t
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HOUSEHOLI). The Kitchen.—One of the finest house-keepers in the United States says: If scrimping must be done, scrimp parlor andsitting-room, but have the kitchen and bedrooms as comfort-able as possible. Another writer observes: The kitchen isto the house what the stomach is to the body, and should bethe most spacious, best lighted, and best ventilated apartmentin the house. This remark, however, is aimed mainly at cityfiomes, where the kitchen is too often a mere little basementcellar, badly lighted and illy supplied with pure air, from whichIt is no wonder that the servants are continually rising to theupper regions to give warning. In the country the averagekitchen is far more decent, but still the erring house-keeper,anxious to have things like other people, is prone to pinchthe poor kitchen in order to furnish the parlor in gim-cracks. This is all wrong. If ones house were intended for enter-tainment and continual festivity, then it would be well to placeits parlor and dining-

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