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Excerpt from Wewa: The Child of the PueblosLittle Wewa crept through the low doorway of his father's dwelling, and stood upon the roof of the neighbor's house who lived in the story below. Stepping upon a low stone bench, which was built against the side of the house, he leaned back against the wall and looked far off across the dreary plain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more...

Excerpt from Good Dinners: For Every Day in the Year These menus are not, as may be supposed, a chance medley, thrown together without regard to season or taste. On the contrary, they are, without exception, based on the market supply of the month, and so constructed that the roast, or portion left over from one meal, is utilized as entrée or some other desirable form for the next. They are the work, not only of a practical housekeeper, but o...

Excerpt from Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present and Their Future It is impossible for even the most dispa'ssion ate or indifferent Observer to blink these facts. Proclaim as we may that there is no antagonism between capital and labor, that their interests are one, and that conditions and opportunities for the worker are always better and better, practical thinkers and workers deny this con Clusion. Wealth has enormously increased,...

Excerpt from Sundays in Yoho: Twelve Stories for Children and Their Friends Yoho is an island in one of the small northern lakes of Ontario, only to be found depicted on local charts and unmentioned, so far as I know, in any gazetteer. Yet it has a certain quiet celebrity of its own which it is far from being my desire to make public. Life on the island is a return to first principles, a child life in the best and wisest sense. Children form ...

Excerpt from Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Grave doubts at times arise in the critical mind as to whether America has had any famous women. We are reproached with the fact, that in spite of some two hundred years of existence, we have, as yet, developed no genius in any degree comparable to that of George Eliot and George Sand in the present, or a dozen other as familiar names of the past. One at least of our prominent literary journals has fo...

Excerpt from The American Girl's Home Book: Of Work and Play American Girls' Home Book of Work and Play was prepared, and though there are many points in which it might be bettered, it has proved the safe and trusty com panion of a good many girls who have studied the third part eagerly, and have found it, as they say, precisely the help they needed. Two chapters are added to the present edition: one on candy-making, which has proved itself a...

Excerpt from The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking HE little book now revised and sent out with some slight additions, remains substantially the same as. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserv...

Excerpt from Household Economics: A Course of Lectures in the School of Economics of the University of WisconsinSo it is that the work has gone on. The sanctity of the home has centred chie¿y about the kitchen stove, the boys have ¿ed from it with a speed that does credit to their intelligence, nor can they by any present means he lured back again. This and a thousand other things have resulted from the system to which women cling, clamoring o...

Excerpt from Ballantyne: A Novel Of the ninety-three Americans who made the late March passage from Boston to Liverpool, in a year still recent, not one stepped upon English soil with so strong a sense of familiar proprietorship as Marion Lacy, Boston born, Boston bred, and with distinct and lifelong appreciation of her birthright and what it involved. Nantucket, it is true, claimed the father and Plymouth the mother, but Boston has always ad...

Excerpt from Story of Little Metzu: The Japanese Boy Away in the western part of our land, along the shores of the great Pacific Ocean, lies the State of California, and in the western part of this State, built around a beautiful bay, is the city of San Francisco. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important his...

Excerpt from Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives To Mr. Theodore Stanton, the editor of The Woman Question in Europe, I hasten to acknowledge my indebted ness. After reading that interesting book it occurred to me that a volume on the work of women in America could be made equally valuable and interesting. In the spring of 1888, therefore, I began to collect the neces sary material. Naturally it was not pos...

Excerpt from Famous Presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Grant Nearly three hundred years ago, in the year 1607, a ship sailed from England laden with people who were to form a settlement upon the lands of the London Land Company. This ship was to anchor in Roanoke Sound, but was driven by a terrible storm northward into Chesapeake Bay. Sailing along, the southern shores of this magnificent body of water, they at length reache...

Excerpt from Why and How to Use Milk This is a message to you, Canadian women, for on you rests the responsibility of providing young Canadians with suitable food for health, and for mental and physical growth. The well-being of your family depends, in large measure, on the food which you give them to eat, and upon the welfare of your family depends the future welfare of the nation. Study your foods, and be able to make a wise choice in qual...

Das bewegende Drama erzählt die wahre Geschichte von Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), die im mutigen Kampf um ihr Erbe und um Gerechtigkeit bis vor das höchste Gericht der USA zieht. In einem spektakulären Prozess verklagt sie die Republik Österreich auf die Herausgabe der Kunstsammlung ihrer Familie, die einst von den Nationalsozialisten enteignet wurde. Unter den Bildern befindet sich auch eines der berühmtesten Bilder der Welt: "Die goldene Ad...

Das bewegende Drama erzählt die wahre Geschichte von Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), die im mutigen Kampf um ihr Erbe und um Gerechtigkeit bis vor das höchste Gericht der USA zieht. In einem spektakulären Prozess verklagt sie die Republik Österreich auf die Herausgabe der Kunstsammlung ihrer Familie, die einst von den Nationalsozialisten enteignet wurde. Unter den Bildern befindet sich auch eines der berühmtesten Bilder der Welt: "Die goldene Ad...

This is the story of a very close relationship. It is an account from birth, about identical twins. Twins so similar that even their mother found at times she could not tell the difference. But what happened when one of these twins died? The death is sudden and tragic, Margaret died about a fortnight after her thirty fifth birthday. Her mind was broken, and she was a voluntary patient in a psychiatric hospital. She was drowned and The Lord Adv...

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Excerpt from The Housekeeper's Year-Book, 1883It has not been our purpose to present a scientifically accu rate system of book-keeping, but one which an ordinary house keeper can understand and practice with Only reasonable care and attention.Remember, this is not designed to keep accounts between you and other parties, but simply to show the household ex penses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cla...

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