THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY OF WORK AND PLAY CARPENTRY AND WOODWORK By Edwin W. Foster. ELECTRICITY AND ITS EVERYDAY USES By John F. Woodhull, Ph.D. GARDENING AND FARMING By Ellen Eddy Shaw. HOME DECORATION By Charles Franklin Warner, Sc.D. HOUSEKEEPING By Elizabeth Hale Gilman. MECHANICS, INDOORS AND OUT By Fred T. Hodgson. NEEDLECRAFT By Effie Archer Archer. OUTDOOR SPORTS, AND GAMES By Claude H. Miller, Ph.B. OUTDOOR WORK By Mary Rogers Miller. WORKING IN METALS By Charles Conrad Sleffel. [Illustration: Photograph by Helen W. Cooke Have You a Play-House?] _The Library of Work and Play_ HOUSEKEEPING BY ELIZABETH HALE GILMAN [Illustration] LEER·V·SOLON. GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1911 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY "_Look not thou down, but up! To uses of a cup, The festal board, lamp's flash and trumpet's peal, The new wine's foaming flow, The Master's lips a-glow! Thou, Heaven's consummate cup, what need'st thou with earth's wheel?_" CONTENTS PAGE PART I. THE PLAY HOUSE 1 PART II. LEARNING AND HELPING 41 PART III. MY HERITAGE 61 CHAPTER I. My Heritage 63 II. The Plan 69 III. The Accounts 87 IV. The Schedule 101 V. Possessions 115 VI. Care of Fittings and Furniture 121 VII. Upstairs Work 146 VIII. Dining-room and Pantry Work 160 IX. The Kitchen 188 X. The Cellar, Fires, Plumbing, etc. 208 XI. Menus and Marketing 244 XII. Cooking 274 XIII. Washing and Ironing 312 XIV. House Cleaning 337 XV. Emergencies 353 XVI. Servants 370 XVII. Martha 382 XVIII. The Inspiration 388 ILLUSTRATIONS Have You a Playhouse? _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE A Playhouse Somebody Else Has Made 14 Tidying 52 The Account Book 90 The Broom Closet 140 Straight and Smooth 150 Air, Sun, and Water 156 Order and Daintiness 164 Cooking 274 PART I