Excerpt from The Universal Household Assistant, or What Every One Should Know: A Cyclopedia of Practical Information, Complete Directions for Making and Doing Over 5, 000 Things Necessary in Business, the Trades, the Shop, the Home, the Farm, and the KitchenAll these things, and many more, this book contains. The alphabetical arrangement of subjects has been selected as the most convenient for reference. From hundreds Of reliable sources the articles have been selected, and no thing has been admitted which has not the sanction Of usage and worth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.