Advertisement: The Philosophy of Housekeeping
By Joseph B. Lyman, Agricultural Editor of N. Y. Tribune, Associate Editor of “Hearth and home,” and Laura E. Lyman, Author of the Agriculturist Prize Essay on Housekeeping, Writer in Home Circle Department of N. Y.
World, “and Hearth and Home.”
A Manual of the Domestic Arts; a Scientific and practical Guide in the Selection and Preparation of every kind of Food; a Compendium of the best practical Rules for the Preservation of Health, the Care of Infants, the Food, Clothing, and Comfort of Children, Domestic Remedies, the Building, Convenience, and Ornamentation of Homes, and all the Arts, Graces, and Accomplishments of the Household.
The success which both these Authors have had in competing for the Prizes offered by the leading Agricultural Journal of the country, is a proof of their ability to write on this class of subjects with unusual comprehensiveness and vigor, and in such a way as to interest a large class of readers.
Their work is intended to help the poor rise out of poverty, and instruct those who have a competence, how to derive from it all the comfort and happiness possible.
It is designed to make every home the center of all that is most highly prized in domestic and social life.
The advantages that may be derived from the reading of any one of these chapters are worth the price of the volume.
This book is intended not more for the rich than for the toiling, economizing millions of our land.
It is not a sensation story, nor a re-hash of miscellaneous writers, but springs directly from the study, the experience, and the wide observation of its authors.
There has never been written in this country, nor in England, any work upon these familiar topics which is at the same time so useful and so entertaining.
The homely details of the kitchen, the nursery, and the sewing-room, are here invested with the charms of happy treatment and the graces of pure English.
There cannot be brought to any family in the land a book which the agent can more confidently recommend for intrinsic value as a book of daily reference.
The duties of the housekeeper, the cares and responsibilities of the wife and the mother, are illuminated by all the light of modern science; and the last discoveries in chemistry reduced to immediate practical utility.
Though a scientific work, everybody can understand it; and whoever picks it up to get instruction, will continue to peruse its pages, drawn on by the simplicity, elegance, and force of the style.
Conditions.
The book will be printed from new electrotype plates, on good paper, with illustrations of the various subjects, engraved expressly for this work. It will contain nearly 550 pages, and be furnished to subscribers payable on delivery: In Extra Fine American Cloth, Sprinkled Edge, for---$ The work can be obtained through our distributing Agents, and will be sold only by Subscription. Subscribers will not be obliged to take the book unless it corresponds with the description in every particular. Address S. M. Betts, & Co., 91 Asylum St., Hartford Conn.[630]
