Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper
本书摘录:
Introduction
_ UNDER the title of Confessions of a Housekeeper, a portion of the matter in this volume has already appeared. The book is now considerably increased, and the range of subjects made to embrace the grave and instructive, as well as the agreeable and amusing. The author is sure, that no lady reader, familiar with the trials, perplexities, and incidents of housekeeping, can fail to recognize many of her own experiences, for nearly every picture that is here presented, has been drawn from life. _
Chapter 1. My Speculation In China Ware
_ CHAPTER I. MY SPECULATION IN CHINA WARE
THIS happened a very few years after, my marriage, and is one of those feeling incidents in life that we never forget. My husband‘s income was moderate, and we found it necessary to deny ourselves many little articles of ornament and luxury, to the end that there might be no serious abatement in the comforts of life. In furnishing our house, we ha
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