Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/letterstoyoungho00prin Some characters might not display properly in this UTF-8 text file (e.g., empty squares). If so, the reader should consult the html version or the original page images noted above. Transcriber’s note: Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). LETTERS TO A YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER ❧ ❧ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LETTERS TO A YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER by JANE PRINCE [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo] Boston & New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1917 Copyright, 1917, by Houghton Mifflin Company All Rights Reserved Published February 1917 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO MY SISTER AT WHOSE SUGGESTION THESE LETTERS WERE WRITTEN FOR SOME YOUNG FRIENDS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ❧ TABLE OF CONTENTS ❧ 1. Economy in the Household 1 2. The Budget 17 3. Servants 29 4. Maid of all Work 57 5. Weekly Cleaning 73 6. Family Meals 85 7. Duties of Servants 103 8. Behind the Scenes at a 137 Dinner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LETTERS TO A YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER ❧ ❧ CHAPTER I ⬩ ECONOMY IN THE HOUSEHOLD YORK HARBOR, _June 20_. _Dear Penelope_: You have no idea how your plaintive little “wail” in the form of a letter went right to my heart, or what memories long forgotten it brought back to me of my early married life. You are perfectly right in thinking that I too had my “experiences,” and I am so pleased that you came to me to see if I could help you by recalling what I actually went through myself and what those “experiences,” almost tragic to me at the time, brought about in the way of remedies.