Identifier: feminologyguidef00dres (find matches)
Title: Feminology; a guide for womankind, giving in detail instructions as to motherhood, maidenhood, and the nursery
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dressler, Florence
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Publisher: Chicago, C. L. Dressler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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al self is exhibited, and, hence,is considered the best place in which to judge character.It cannot be right, however, to allow the weeds of selfish-ness, ill-nature, and fault-finding to grow up therein. Itcannot be right to fall into manners that would not betolerated in the homes of friends. It is surely wrong notto be as kind and courteous to those who are best belovedas to strangers. Home is the garden of the soul, in whichpeople are fitted for the places in life here and hereafter.When men and women decide to give the best that is withinthem to those who are nearest, home will be the ideal placeit should be. The supervision of the home in all its details usuallydevolves upon the wife. By so doing, her equality withthe husband is preserved in home-building. If in businessit is necessary for a man to be able to direct his employees,in the household it is just as essential that a woman shouldbe capable of directing her assistants. If a young wife does not understand housekeeping at
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THE HOME NEST. HOME-BUILDING. 43 first, she can learn by experience, as a little child learnsto walk by walking. The figurative bumps and bruisesencountered should not discourage her, but, rather, helpher to avoid future mistakes. Assuming the care of a household, the young wife mustbe constantly on the alert to promptly combat dirt anddisorder, which are demoralizing in the family. She shouldacquaint herself with some of the leading principles ofhousehold hygiene to preclude the likelihood of her familybecoming poisoned by bad sanitary conditions. Offensivesights should be promptly removed, and offensive odorsinvestigated. It may safely be said that where evil smellsexist, there can be no real healthiness. To understand the values of food and the preparationthereof, the care of beds and bedding, to know how to ven-tilate her house throughout, to look after the drain pipesand the disposal of garbage are a few of the requirementsof housewifery. As to food, the rapidity with which theno

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