426 TO 432 PINE ST. AND 215-217 SUTTER ST. 1891 Copyright, 1885, by MRS. E. STEVENS TII,TON THE OXFORD PUBLISHING Co. 3 East 14th St., New York PREFACE. presenting HOME DISSERTATIONS, it has been our aim to embody every want, solve every dilemma, and gratify every wish of a good housekeeper. The in- formation endeavored to impart, valuable household re- ceipts for plain and fancy cooking, French names of all articles of food, and how to prepare them, varied menus for all kinds of entertainments, etc., has been ob- tained and arranged with no little effort. GOLDBERG, BOWEN & LEBENBAUM 529 \ PURE, FRESH, DELICIOUS, apd ORDERS BY MAIL OR EXPRESS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION, iei STJ5TE ST., CHICAGO. Branch of 803 Broadway, N. Y. "And when night came, amidst the breathless Heavens, we'd guess what star should be our home when love becomes immortal." * * HOME. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! « r ¥ "HE household is the home of the man, as well as .of the child. The events that occur therein are more near and affecting to us than those which are sought in senates and academies. Domestic events are certainly our affairs. What are called public events may or may not be ours. If a man wishes to acquaint himself with the real history of the world, with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room. The subtle spirit of life must be sought in facts nearer. It is what is done and suffered in the house, in the constitution, in the temperament, in the personal history, that has the profoundest interest for us," says Emer- son, and adds: "Let us come, then, out of the public square, and enter the domestic precinct. Let us go to the sitting room, the table-talk, and the expenditure of our contemporaries. Does the household obey an idea ? Do you see the man, — his form, genius, and aspira- tion,— in his economy? Is that translucent, thorough-lighted ? There should be nothing confounding and conventional in economy, but the genius and love of the man so con- spicuously marked in all his estate, that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property, in his grounds, in his ornaments, in his every expense. A man's money should not follow the direction of his neighbor's money, but should represent to him the things he would willingliest do with it. I am not one thing and my expenditure another, My expenditure is me. That our expenditure and our character are twain, is the vice of society. The progress of domestic living has been in cleanliness, in ventilation, in health, in decorum, in countless means and arts of comfort, in the concentration of all the utilities of every clime in each house. They are arranged for low benefits. The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host, nor the guest; it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is labo- rious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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426 TO 432 PINE ST. AND 215-217 SUTTER ST. Copyright, 1885, by MRS. E. STEVENS TILTON THE OXFORD PUBLISHING Co. 3 East 14th St., New York PREFACE. presenting HOME DISSERTATIONS, it has been our aim to embody every want, solve every dilemma, and gratify every wish of a good housekeeper. The information endeavored to impart, valuable household receipts for plain and fancy cooking, French names of all articles of food, and how to prepare them, varied menus for all kinds of entertainments, etc., has been obtained and arranged with no little effort. GOLDBERG, BOWEN & LEBENBAUM \ PURE, FRESH, DELICIOUS, and ORDERS BY MAIL OR EXPRESS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION, 161 SUITE ST., CHICAGO. Branch of 803 Broadway, N. Y. "And when night came, amidst the breathless Heavens, we'd guess what star should be our home when love becomes immortal." * * HOME. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! "THE household is the home of the man, as well as .of the child. The events that occur therein are more near and affecting to us than those which are sought in senates and academies. Domestic events are certainly our affairs. What are called public events may or may not be ours. If a man wishes to acquaint himself with the real history of the world, with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room. The subtle spirit of life must be sought in facts nearer. It is what is done and suffered in the house, in the constitution, in the temperament, in the personal history, that has the profoundest interest for us," says Emerson, and adds: "Let us come, then, out of the public square, and enter the domestic precinct. Let us go to the sitting room, the table-talk, and the expenditure of our contemporaries. Does the household obey an idea ? Do you see the man, — his form, genius, and aspiration,— in his economy? Is that translucent, thorough-lighted ? There should be nothing confounding and conventional in economy, but the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate, that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property, in his grounds, in his ornaments, in his every expense. A man's money should not follow the direction of his neighbor's money, but should represent to him the things he would willingliest do with it. I am not one thing and my expenditure another, My expenditure is me. That our expenditure and our character are twain, is the vice of society. The progress of domestic living has been in cleanliness, in ventilation, in health, in decorum, in countless means and arts of comfort, in the concentration of all the utilities of every clime in each house. They are arranged for low benefits. The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host, nor the guest; it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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