A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at SchoolBeecher, Catharine Esther
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A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Home economics
Economy, on domestic, 152.
Extravagance changed for, 176.
Contradictory ideas as to, 185.
General principles as to, 186.
Relative obligations of rich and poor as to, 191.
Neglect as to, 193.
Of the aristocracy, 194.
Education in America, 147.
Associations for, 203.
_See_ Female, _and_ Monticello.
Employment, for the different divisions of a week, 162.
On regular, for all the family, 163.
Enjoyments, _see_ Amusements, _and_ Happiness.
Equality, on democratic, 25.
_See_ Democracy, Sexes, _and_ Women.
Establishments, expensive, given up, 176.
Exercise, comparative, of American women and others, 44.
Neglect of, 50, 244.
Method for securing, at the Monticello Female Seminary, 54.
Indispensable to the health of the several parts of the
human frame, 73, 97.
Of the muscles, 76, 78, 97, 116, 128, 129.
Effect of want of, on the spine, 78, 80.
Food to be graduated by, 97.
After eating, bad, 102.
Evils of want of, 129.
On furnishing interesting, 131.
Walking for, 131.
In useful employments, 131.
Excessive, 132.
Rule as to, 133.
On excessive, of the mind and feelings, 197.
Of the brain, 199.
Exhalations from the skin, 92.
Expenses, on keeping account of, 173, 174.
Economy in, 185, 193.
On graduating, by the income, 186.
On gentility in being careless of, 193.
On extravagance in, 194.
_See_ Economy.
Eyes, screening, from light, 217, 283.
F.
Family, on early rising in the, 126.
Fathers neglecting the, 255.
On attachments of, 256.
Fasting in sickness, 235.
Fathers neglecting home, 255.
Fault-finding, 211.
Featherbeds, 114, 313.
Feelings, inactivity of the, 199.
Feet, on protecting the, 115, 117, 129.
Keeping those of infants, warm, 217.
Bathing, for a cold, 235.
Female association for educating poor females, 59.
Female education, advantages for, in America, 43.
Objects to be attended to, in, 48, 49.
Importance of mathematics in, 56.
Should be conducted by females, 58.
Present waste in conducting, 60.
_See_ School.
Female seminaries, on the endowment of, 51.
Importance of, 52.
Defects of, 53.
Suitable, 53.
Monticello Female Seminary, described, 54.
Division of labor and responsibility in, 58.
Requirement for admission to the Monticello, 59.
On providing, 61, 68.
Reasons for introducing the study of domestic economy into, 63.
Establishment of, by a wealthy female, 202.
Should have gardens, 251.
Females, influence of, on the character of the young, 37.
Building schoolhouses, 202.
_See_ American women, Girls, _and_ Women.
Filberts, 348.
Finding fault, 211.
Finger nails, 122, 144.
Fire, escaping from, 243.
Fireplaces and fires, 260, 265, 280, 311.
Fishing, 244.
Flannel, 114.
Utility of, 115.
On washing, 285, 286.
Fleas, 323.
Flies, on destroying, 323.
Flower baskets, 354.
Flower seeds, on planting, 332.
Flowers, 251, 335.
Arranging, 337.
Fluids, on taking, 103, 104.
Folding articles, 315.
Follicles of the skin, 93.
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