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PREFACE.
IT is becoming fashionable in these pinching times to economize, and
housekeepers are really finding it a pleasant pastime to search out and stop
wastes in household expenses, and to exercise the thousand little economies
which thoughtful and careful women understand so readily and practice with such
grace. Somebody has said that a well-to-do French family would live on what an
American household in the same condition of life wastes, and this may not be a
great exaggeration. Here, the greatest source of waste is in the blunders and
experiments of the inexperienced. Women are slow to learn by the experience of
others. Every young house-keeper must begin at the beginning (unless her mother
was wise enough to give her a careful training) and blunder into a knowledge of
the practical duties of the household, wasting time, temper and money in
mistakes, when such simple instructions as any skillful housewife might readily
give, would be an almost perfect guide. Lately there have been attempts to
gather such instructions as are needed into a book, but they have been partial
failures, because the authors have been good book-makers, but poor bread-makers,
or because, while practically familiar with the subjects treated, they have
failed to express clearly and concisely the full processes in detail. In
compiling this new candidate for favor, the one aim has been to pack between its
covers the greatest possible amount of practical information of real value to
all, and especially to the inexperienced. It is not a hap-hazard collection of
recipes, gathere at random from doubtful sources, but has
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