Excerpt from Household Hints and Recipes, Vol. 1Common Sense is the richest endowment for every good housekeeper. In these pages are found some uncommonly good hints, which if observed will make good housekeeping a thing of pleasure, and sense and sentiment will more easily combine to make every home more delightful. In this volume there has been special effort to avoid the usual stereotyped "Cook Book Recipes" which have been repeated over and over again till all are familiar with them. Instead, something new, fresh, practical, sensible, has been furnished, which make a Ladies' Book of rare interest, and inestimable worth in every home. Every department of the house except the kitchen, will find here rare receipts and hints which will lead you to avoid a multitude of cares and annoyances, prevent many a serious accident, remedy many troubles, and save a waste of means. They are the result of personal experience of the Editors, and as such are intended to be strictly reliable and trustworthy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.