Domestic and Rural Affairs: The Family, Farm and Gardens, and the Domestic Animals. ... From the Latest and Best AuthoritiesElliot G. Storke Auburn publishing Company, 1859 |
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... increase , it is easy and pleasant to increase in comforts ; but it is always painful and inconvenient to decrease . After all , these things are viewed in their proper light by the truly judicious and re- spectable . Neatness ...
... increase , it is easy and pleasant to increase in comforts ; but it is always painful and inconvenient to decrease . After all , these things are viewed in their proper light by the truly judicious and re- spectable . Neatness ...
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... increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy , it hastens misfortune . Generally speaking , we are very deficient in the practice of culinary economy . A French family would live well on what is often wasted in an American kitchen ...
... increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy , it hastens misfortune . Generally speaking , we are very deficient in the practice of culinary economy . A French family would live well on what is often wasted in an American kitchen ...
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... increase of fire to boil it . In small families we recommend block - tin saucepans etc. , as lightest and safest ; if proper care is taken of them , and they are well dried after they are cleansed , they are by far the cheapest - the ...
... increase of fire to boil it . In small families we recommend block - tin saucepans etc. , as lightest and safest ; if proper care is taken of them , and they are well dried after they are cleansed , they are by far the cheapest - the ...
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... Increase on Home - Made Bread , even equal to one - fifth , may be produced by using bran - water for kneading the dough . The proportion is three pounds of bran for every twenty - eight pounds of flour , to be boiled for an hour , and ...
... Increase on Home - Made Bread , even equal to one - fifth , may be produced by using bran - water for kneading the dough . The proportion is three pounds of bran for every twenty - eight pounds of flour , to be boiled for an hour , and ...
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... increase , until the whole head is covered with a scab , discharging this matter , which is very offensive . The hair is to be cut off as close as possible , and the head washed every night and morning with lime - water . This is easily ...
... increase , until the whole head is covered with a scab , discharging this matter , which is very offensive . The hair is to be cut off as close as possible , and the head washed every night and morning with lime - water . This is easily ...
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Page 10 - You may think perhaps that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter ; but remember, Many a little makes a mickle. Beware of little expenses : A small leak will sink a great ship...
Page 257 - Immediate delivery and followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor, and as against subsequent purchasers and mortgagees In good faith...
Page 259 - Every contract for the leasing for*a longer period than one year, or for the sale of any lands, or any interest in lands, shall be void, unless the contract, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, be in writing, and be subscribed by the party by whom the lease or sale is made.
Page 11 - ... reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised, but who, through industry and frugality, have maintained their standing ; in which case it appears plainly, that ' A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees,
Page 11 - When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, " It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it...
Page 10 - A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
Page 10 - He means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only, and not real; or the bargain, by straitening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good. For in another place he says, Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.
Page 259 - An agreement for the leasing for a longer period than one year, or for the sale of real property, or of an interest therein ; and such agreement, if made by an agent of the party sought to be charged...
Page 37 - Boil one pound of good flour, a quarter of a pound of brown sugar, and a little salt, in two gallons of water, for one hour. When milk-warm, bottle it, and cork it close. It will be fit for use in twenty-four hours.- One pint of this yeast will make eighteen pounds of bread.
Page 11 - These are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniences, and yet only because they look pretty how many want to have them.