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id: 7428
author: Bentley, Mildred Maddocks
title: The Consumer Viewpoint Covering Vital Phases of Manufacturing and Selling Household Devices
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words: 4965
sentence: 257
flesch: 65
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summary:
  However, it is possible to group most exertions that women must practice into two classes: those that involve upper arm muscles, as work at a sink, range, washtub, or washing machine, etc., and secondly, exertions that involve the muscles of the forearm, as the mixing, stirring, and beating involved in cookery processes. The crowd had been drawn by the display of a number of different washing machines grouped around a central machine which was absorbing the limelight.


id: 33748
author: Anonymous
title: The Kitchen Encyclopedia Twelfth Edition (Swift & Company)
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words: 9678
sentence: 469
flesch: 74
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summary:
  We absolutely know this to be so, for we have had various cuts of meat, especially the cheaper cuts, cooked in a fireless cooker and the dishes so prepared have been submitted to competent judges; the opinion was unanimous that there was a real difference between the flavor of meats so cooked and that of corresponding cuts cooked after the usual methods, and that the delicacy and richness of flavor lay with those meats cooked by the fireless method. With regard to meats cooked in water in the cooker, Miss Mitchell asserts that experience has shown that they become well done and are more tender than when boiled, showing that the temperatures necessary to reach that degree of cooking are obtained even in the center of a large piece of meat, without toughening or hardening the outside of the meat, as is done when more intense heat is applied.


id: 14117
author: Barker, C. Hélène
title: Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework: Business principles applied to housework
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words: 15798
sentence: 532
flesch: 60
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summary:
  Large stores and factories, requiring the coöperation of many employees, have done more to open new avenues of work for women than could have been dreamed of in former times, when it was the custom for each family to produce at home as much as possible, if not all, that was necessary for its own consumption. Wages, apparently, have little to do with their decision, nor other considerations which must add very much to their material welfare, such as good food in abundance, and clean, well ventilated sleeping accommodations, for these two important items are generally included at present in the salaries of household employees.


id: 18432
author: Fowler, Arthur L.
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words: 18537
sentence: 794
flesch: 75
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title:
  Fowler's Household Helps Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps About the Home, Carefully Compiled and Arranged in Convenient Form for Frequent Use

summary:
  For Sagging Chair Seats--When cane-seated chairs sag they can be tightened by washing the bottom of the cane in hot water and soap; then rinse in clean water and dry out-of-doors. When the burners become greasy, remove and wash them thoroughly in soap and hot water.


id: 35066
author: Palmer, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)
title: Guide to Hotel Housekeeping
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words: 21241
sentence: 1188
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Dust on the walls is what causes the unpleasant, musty smell of many hotel rooms. The failure of many housekeepers is due to the lack of proper training; it is only the skilled housekeeper that wins lasting approval.


id: 35963
author: Swan, Annie S.
title: Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making
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words: 22422
sentence: 771
flesch: 65
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summary:
  But I know that I touch upon what is a sore point with many women, and I can only hope that if any stingy husbands read these words they will try a little experiment on their own account, and see how the unexpected gift of a little money, offered lovingly, can bring the light back to eyes which have grown a little weary, and smooth the lines away from a brow which care has wrinkled before its time. Yet it is a mistake which many women make, and it is a common saying with the bachelors who may miss a certain bright spirit from their midst, Oh, nobody ever sees him now, he's married!


id: 4622
author: Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
title: Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper
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words: 25755
sentence: 1398
flesch: 81
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summary:
  exclaimed Mrs. Turner, about six months after the death of her husband, while pondering sadly over the prospect before her. This sad falling off in her prospects, had been communicated to Mrs. Turner a short time before, by the administrator on the estate; and its effect was to alarm and sadden her extremely.


id: 30897
author: Benton, Caroline French
title: A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl; Or, Margaret's Saturday Mornings
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words: 28783
sentence: 1170
flesch: 84
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summary:
  If you are careful you can often get rid of little things in the kitchen by burning them, but you should be sure and never let the odor get out into the room. After breakfast Margaret went up-stairs and shut the windows of her room, and a little later, when it was warm, she and her aunt put on fresh white aprons and went in and began to put it to rights.


id: 12366
author: Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta)
title: The Cost of Shelter
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words: 27409
sentence: 1078
flesch: 66
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summary:
  In the old type of city house the travel up-and down-stairs to answer bell and telephone has demanded strength of back not possessed by the modern maid. The upper floors of an isolated skyscraper give more than a country house, but at the expense of other houses in the darkened street.


id: 47694
author: Peel, C. S., Mrs.
title: The Labour-saving House
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words: 31990
sentence: 1612
flesch: 77
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summary:
  This type of gas fire can be fitted in almost any shape or size of coal grates; its initial cost, as well as cost of fitting, is extremely low. [Illustration: _PLATE VIa_ THE WALDICK COOKER Combines a cooker, gas fire, and water boiler.


id: 36498
author: Gwynne, Elsie Wilson
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words: 34373
sentence: 2090
flesch: 68
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title:
  The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics

summary:
  The Federal Board for Vocational Education and Home Economics Education Service appreciate the cooperation of State supervisors, members of teacher-training staffs, vocational teachers, and art teachers both in the schools and colleges, and their contributions of material for this study. Several laboratory problems which teachers have used in art classes are here presented.


id: 36689
author: Anonymous
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words: 37734
sentence: 2236
flesch: 90
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title:
  The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner

summary:
  Put soap into boiling water and beat it till it is all dissolved and forms a strong lather when at a hand heat put in the article that is to be washed and if strong it may be rubbed hard; when clean squeeze out the water without wringing and rinse it in warm water. When meat is frozen it should be put in cold water and remain in it till the frost is entirely out if there is any frost in it when put to the fire it will be impossible to cook it well.


id: 14475
author: Abbott, Jacob
title: Mary Erskine
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words: 39323
sentence: 1938
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Thus the baby was never called Mary, but always Mary Bell, and the little nursery maid was always known as Mary Erskine. When Mary Bell became old enough to run about and play, Mary Erskine became her playmate and companion, as well as her protector.


id: 34097
author: Caddy, Florence
title: Household Organization
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words: 40932
sentence: 1306
flesch: 64
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summary:
  The carpet must be laid down the first time by a man from the carpet-warehouse, so that it may be evenly stretched, which is seldom done by a carpenter; but after that it is easily spread, as it remains in shape, and needs very few nails to keep it in position. Bed-room carpets need not have brown paper laid under them, though this is an advantage in other rooms, as it keeps dust and draught from coming through the cracks of the floor, besides saving the carpet from being cut by the edges of the boards. In many houses which are kept too close and warm the families are subject to constant headache, and in others to a perpetual succession of colds; according to their temperament requiring more oxygen, or their susceptibility to the sudden change from the heated to the outdoor air.


id: 26032
author: Various
title: American Cookery November, 1921
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words: 37912
sentence: 2230
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Mrs. Rorer .75 =House Furnishing and Decoration.= McClure and Eberlein 2.50 =House Sanitation.= Talbot .80 =Housewifery.= Balderston 2.50 =Household Bacteriology.= Buchanan 2.75 =Household Economics.= Helen Campbell 1.75 =Household Engineering.= Christine Frederick 2.00 =Household Physics.= Alfred M. Butler 1.50 =Household Textiles.= Gibbs 1.40 =Housekeeper's Handy Book.= Baxter 2.00 =How to Cook in Casserole Dishes.= [Illustration: The Range that Makes Cooking Easy] =See the cooking surface= when you want to rush things--five burners for gas and four covers for coal.


id: 8996
author: Miller, Marion Mills
title: Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife
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words: 45757
sentence: 2008
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Such common dishes as ham and eggs, bacon or salt pork and eggs, and omelette with minced ham or other meat are familiar to all cooks. Housekeepers occasionally use up odd bits of other meat in a similar way, chopping and seasoning them and then warming and serving in individual baking cups with a poached or shirred egg on each.


id: 41940
author: Various
title: The Boston Cooking-School Magazine (Vol. XV, No. 2, Aug.-Sept., 1910)
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words: 41167
sentence: 2215
flesch: 77
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summary:
  =Patent Charlotte Russe Moulds= can be used not only in making charlotte russe, but for many other dishes. Manning-Bowman Pot Style Coffee Percolators make coffee quickly from _cold water_ on this stove.


id: 13493
author: Child, Lydia Maria
title: The American Frugal Housewife
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words: 45562
sentence: 2439
flesch: 84
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summary:
  A few potatoes sliced, and boiling water poured over them, makes an excellent preparation for cleansing and stiffening old rusty black silk. When you have drawn off a part of the lye, put the lime (whether slack or not) into two or three pails of boiling water, and add it to the ashes, and let it drain through.


id: 18097
author: Hoodless, Adelaide
title: Public School Domestic Science
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words: 52496
sentence: 3930
flesch: 84
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summary:
  _Carbohydrates_, e.g., starch and sugar, / --------------+-------+------+--------------------------------------------| | Price | Ten | | | per | cents| Pounds of Nutrients and Calories of | | pound.| will | Fuel Value in 10 cents worth. | Yolk--In | 100 parts.


id: 20557
author: Ontario. Department of Education
title: Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools
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words: 54702
sentence: 3113
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Continue such discussions from time to time, in connection with other school work. When it is possible, the food prepared at home should be brought by the pupil to the school, in order that it may be compared with that made by other pupils and be judged by the teacher.


id: 42803
author: Benton, Caroline French
title: Living on a Little
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words: 61946
sentence: 2952
flesch: 86
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summary:
  There are any number of good things to make these soups of, principally beans,--black, white, red, and Lima beans, all dried. In summer, of course, you can have fruit, and if you live in the country there are lots of good things to make out of milk and cream, especially cream.


id: 16650
title: The Complete Home
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words: 64256
sentence: 2410
flesch: 68
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summary:
  This line is also serviceable when rainy days and lack of other room make it necessary, to dry the washing here. If the cellar is floored with boards, the flooring should be raised sufficiently to allow free circulation of air beneath it; but the only strictly sanitary flooring is of concrete, six inches thick, covered from wall to wall with Portland or other good cement.


id: 36781
title: Household Administration, Its Place in the Higher Education of Women
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words: 76369
sentence: 2651
flesch: 56
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summary:
  Many of these efforts are still unsystematised, many good intentions are held to be of equal worth with organised practical knowledge; many women are alive only to the needs of the least favoured of the community and are dead to the urgent calls for intelligent reforms in their own domiciles. It would be superfluous to point out in how many kinds of public work women are gradually coming to the fore--in those especially which deal with education and with the care of the disabled.


id: 15360
author: Campbell, Helen
title: The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes
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words: 81620
sentence: 4416
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Boiled starch is made by adding cold water to raw starch in the proportion of one cup of water to three-quarters of a cup of starch, and then pouring on boiling water till it has thickened to a smooth mass, constantly stirring as you pour. All fish for boiling should be put into cold water, with the exception of salmon, which loses its color unless put into boiling water.


id: 32863
author: Cobbett, William
title: Cottage Economy, to Which is Added The Poor Man's Friend
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words: 84300
sentence: 3457
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Make the boiler of _copper_, and not of sheet-iron, and fix it on a stand with a fire-place and stove-pipe; and then you have the whole to brew out of doors with as well as in-doors, which is a very great convenience. The best way to preserve manure, is to have a pit of sufficient dimensions close behind the cow-shed and pig-sty, for the run from these to go into, and from which all runs of _rain water_ should be kept.


id: 21829
author: Beecher, Catharine Esther
title: A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
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words: 128342
sentence: 6716
flesch: 71
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summary:
  In case of poisoning from _arsenic_, _cobalt_, or any such mineral, administer, as soon as possible, large quantities of lime-water and sugared-water, of warm, or even of cold water, or of flaxseed tea, or some other mucilaginous drink, to distend the stomach and produce immediate vomiting, and thereby eject the poison. This is for _white_ articles.


id: 6598
author: Beecher, Catharine Esther
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words: 153523
sentence: 6201
flesch: 66
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title:
  American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes

summary:
  A wise economy is nowhere more conspicuous, than in a systematic _apportionment of time_ to different pursuits. One special aim will be to point out modes of _economizing labor_ in preparing food.


id: 31217
author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
title: Household Papers and Stories
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words: 166338
sentence: 5772
flesch: 67
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summary:
  When a mother has sent her son to the temptations of a distant city, what news is so glad to her heart as that he has found some quiet family where he visits often and is made to feel at HOME? How many young men have good women saved from temptation and shipwreck by drawing them often to the sheltered corner by the fireside! I have become perfectly sure, said I that there are spiteful little brownies, intent on seducing good women to sin, who mount guard over the special idols of the china closet.


id: 29084
author: Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
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words: 341998
sentence: 15015
flesch: 80
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title:
  The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families

summary:
  Mix it into a stiffish paste, with as little water as possible; beat it well, and roll it thin. If your tarts are made of apricots, green almonds, nectarines, or green plums, they must be scalded before you use them, and observe to put nothing to them but sugar, and as little water as possible; make use of the syrup they were scalded in, as you did for your apples, &c. Cherries, currants, raspberries, and all ripe fruits need not be scalded; and if you make your tarts in china, or glass patties, lay the sugar at bottom, then the fruit, with a little more sugar on the top; put no paste at the bottom, only lid them over, and bake them in a slack oven.


