Twentieth century home cook book

How to Preserve Health and Save Doctor's Bill — Care of Children — Nursery Bathing — Duration and Proper Time for Bathing — Exercise of Children — Study and Relaxation — The Sick-room — Cookery for Invalids — Table of Foods and Time of Digestion — Some Animal Foods in ■; ■ their Order of Digestibility — Time Required to Cook Various Articles — Cooking for Convalescents — Recipes and Directions — Jelly of Meat — Other Simple Dishes — Gruels — Teas and " Other Refreshing Drinks — Remedies for the Sick — Doses and their Graduation — Disinfection ■ — Simple Poisons and their Antidotes — Virulent Poisons and their Antidotes — Disinfectants 273 CHAPTER XXIII Origin of Household Recipes — Economy in the Kitchen — Washing Dishes — Regulating Coal Fires — Use of Waste Paper — Cleaning Soiled Marble, etc. — Verminous Insects — Cloth and Fur Moths — Book-destroying Insects — Kerosene — The Laundry, Some Helps in Washing — Starching and Ironing — Bleaching Linens, etc. — To Clean Silver — Sweeping — Papering, Kalsomining and Painting — Spring House-cleaning — Household Hints — Toilet Recipes — Home-made Wines — Recipe for Glue — The Dyer's Art — Coloring Dress and Other Fabrics — Walnut Coloring — Coloring Carpet Rags 292 CHAPTER XXIV MENUS Menus for One Week during the Four Seasons of the Year — Spring — Summer — Autumn — -Winter — New Year's Day — Fourth of July — Thanksgiving — Christmas 318 CHAPTER XXV The Meat Room — Hanging, Testing and Preserving Pork, etc. — Mutton and Lamb — Calves and their Edible Parts — Beef — The Kitchen — The Floor, Walls and Furniture — Cleanliness Indispensable — Kitchen Utensils — Chemistry of the Kitchen — Component Parts of Meat — A Famous Cook on Broiling — Boiled and Stewed Dishes — How to Stew 327 CHAPTER XXVI Beautifying the Home — Furnishing the House — The Parlor Furniture — The Dining Room — Kitchen — Bedrooms — Cellar — Water Supply — Soft Water Cisterns — Laying down Carpets — Painting and Kalsomining — Arrangement of Furniture — House Cleaning — Sweeping and Dusting — Renovating Carpets, etc 341 CHAPTER XXVII The Rooms for Company— Guests of the House— Etiquette of the Parlor— Entertaining Visitors and Guests— Daily Duties Not Interruptedby Guests— Going to Bed— Servants and Parlor Service— Duty to Children— What Constitutes Vulgarity— Parlor Decoration — Decoration Not Necessarily Costly— A Rocking Chair— A Practical Family— Ingenious and Useful . . 353 CHAPTER XXVIII THE DINING ROOM AND ITS SERVICE Dining Room Furniture and Decoration — Table Etiquette— Carving at Table— Carving Fourfooted Game— Carving Birds and Fowls— Carving Fish— The Service of the Table— Some Dishes for Epicures— Queer Facts about Vegetables— The Use of Napkins 362 CHAPTER XXIX DRESS AND TOILET ART Dress, Ancient and Modern — The Real Purposes of Dress — Clothe according to Circumstances — Mending Clothes— Altering— Kind of Clothes to Wear— Taste in Ladies' Dress— Something about Color— Toilet-room and Bath— Garments next to Skin — Care of Clothes — Care of Brushes and Combs 370 CHAPTER XXX DEPORTMENT AND SOCIETY The Philosophy of Etiquette — Etiquette an Aid to Success — What it Inculcates — Etiquette of Dining — How Many to Invite — Dinner Costumes — Informal Dinners — How to Receive Guests — At the Table — How to Serve a Dinner — Family Dinners — Useful Hints — Table Usages — What to Do and What to Avoid — Wines at a Formal and Official Dinner — Sensible Hints for Dinner Givers — After Dinner — Breakfast and Supper — Luncheon, Invitations and Service — Etiquette of Dress and Conversation — The Golden Rule — Things to Avoid — Calls — General Etiquette of Calls — Evening Calls — Visiting Cards — New Year's Calls. 379 CHAPTER XXXI