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HOME ECONOMICS:

A CYCLOPEDIA OF FACTS AND HINTS FOR ALL
DEPARTMENTS OF HOME LIFE, HEALTH,
AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

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Copyright 1879, by

PHILLIPS & HUNT,

New York.

DEDICATION.

We dedicate this book to those who have done much for us, and to those for whom we hope to do something in the future, namely:

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1. To our MOTHERS, who made the homes into which we were received.

2. To our WIVES, who make the homes in which we live.

3. To our DAUGHTERS, who are to make the homes for other toilers.

5. To our READERS, who have kindly followed our pens in the past, and who may follow them in the future.

5. To those who have good homes and to those who need them.

THE AUTHORS.

The first sure symptoms of a mind in health,
Is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.
-YOUNGS' NIGHT THOUGHTS.

Home is the resort

Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where,
Supporting, and supported, polished friends
And dear relations mingle into bliss.

-THOMPSON'S SEASONS.

Look to your health, and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience. For health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of a blessing that money cannot buy. Value it.

Surround the sick man with the pomp of kings; let his chair be a throne, and his crutch a scepter; he will look with contemptuous eye on marble, on gold, and on purple, and would deem himself happy could he enjoy, even under thatched roof, the health of the meanest of his subjects.-ZSCHOKKE.

The fireside is a seminary of infinite importance. Few can receive the honors of a college, but all are graduates of the home. The learning of the university may fade from the recollection, its classic lore may molder in the halls of memory; but the simple lessons of home, enameled upon the heart of childhood, defy the rust of years, and outlive the more mature, but less vivid, pictures of after years.-GOODRICH.

I will not, therefore, believe that what is so natural in the house of another is impossible at home; but maintain, without fear, that all the courtesies of social life may be upheld in domestic societies. A husband as willing to be pleased at home, and as anxious to please as in his neighbor's house; and a wife as intent on making things comfortable every day to her family as on set days to her guests, could not fail to make their own home happy.-PHILLIP.