Cassell's Household Guide to Every Department of Practical Life

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IN an age when, owing to the spread of education and the consequent growth of intelligence and of competition, the affairs of human life are becoming in every depart ment more intricate and complicated, no apology can be needed for an endeavour to set out accurately, and in something like scientific order, the laws which govern, and the rules which should regulate, that most necessary and most important of all human institutions, the household. It is there that the fruits of man's labour are ultimately enjoyed; there that woman finds her chief sphere of duty, as the helpmate of man; there that the coming generation is being trained for the duties of life. It is there, then, if anywhere, that the secret of man's material well-being should be sought out and its principles carried out into constant practice.