Women need both scientific and practical Training even more than Men—Woman’s Duties as important as difficult, and much greater in Variety—The business of a Housekeeper includes all connected with the Construction and Care of a House, Yard, and Garden; the Selection of Furniture; the Ornamentation of a Home; its Cleansing, Neatness, and Order; the Selection and Cooking of proper Food; the providing of family Furniture and Clothing; the Care of Health; the Charge of family Expenses; the Training of Servants, and, as Wife and Mother, the Supervision of Nursery, the Educator of Children, and the religious Minister of the family State—Evils consequent on not training Women for these Duties 127 CHAPTER II. A HEALTHFUL AND ECONOMICAL HOME. Advantages of close Packing of Conveniences—Plan of a model Cottage to economize Time, Labor, and Expense, with Estimates of Cost—Advantages described 133 CHAPTER III. ON HOME VENTILATION. Mode in which the Body is nourished by the Air—Construction of the Lungs and Heart—Description of Evils consequent on Neglect of a proper Supply of pure Air 150 CHAPTER IV. ON WARMING A HOUSE. Principles of Heat, viz., Conduction, Convection, Radiation, and Reflection—Best Mode of warming a House illustrated—Importance of Moisture in the Air 164 CHAPTER V. ON STOVES AND CHIMNEYS. The general Properties of Heat, Conduction, Convection, Radiation, Reflection—Cooking done by Radiation the simplest but most wasteful Mode: by Convection (as in Stoves and Furnaces) the cheapest—The Range—The model Cooking-stove—Interior Arrangements and Principles—Contrivances for economizing Heat, Labor, Time, Fuel, Trouble, and Expense—Its Durability, Simplicity, etc.—Chimneys: why they smoke, and how to cure them—Furnaces: the Dryness of their Heat—Necessity of Moisture in warm Air—How to obtain and regulate it 182 CHAPTER VI. ECONOMIC MODES OF BEAUTIFYING A HOME. Educating Influence of natural and artistic Beauty—On Curtains—Sketch of a Parlor with cheap and beautiful Ornaments—On the tasteful Combination of Colors 192 CHAPTER VII. ON THE CARE OF HEALTH.