THE COMMON THINGS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. A Book of Home Wisdom for Mothers and Daughters. BY ANNE BOWMAN, AUTHOR OF "THE HOME-BOOK OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY." "She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread LONDON: G. ROUTLEDGE & CO. FARRINGDON STREET; NEW YORK: 18, BEEKMAN STREET. 1857. 268. c.133. INTRODUCTION. IN these days when the great, the wise, and the good, condescend to interest themselves in the education of the young for the due and healthy performance of their duties in life in the station where it has pleased God to place them, we feel proud to contribute our humble mite to aid the good purpose. There are certainly already many useful manuals on the various departments of domestic economy before the public; the housemaid may learn her business from a catechism; and the cook, in doubt, may consult the cyclopædia of her art. We have certainly scientific treatises on domestic medicine, and learned lectures on female education. Yet we trust our unpretending little book will fill up a deficiency; we offer it simply as a common sense view of Common Things. Doubtless some excellent managers may meet with regulations they have long practised, but if every one should find some few useful hints for health and happiness in the pages, they will not have been read or written unprofitably. |