Excerpt from The Practical Household Assistant: A Complete Guide for the Housekeeper<br><br>The author believes that there is an opening for a practical book of instructions for doing all kinds of housework, the price of which shall bring it within the reach of every one. Whether that Opening shall be in the public heart or the tomb of oblivion will shortly be determined. The rules and recipes which follow have all been thoroughly tested, and found to be good, and they are arranged in such order as will make them easy to find.<br><br>While the book is small it is comprehensive. It contains rules and instructions for all branches of housework. If it shall lighten the burden of the weary ones whose work is never done, without too seriously lightening the pocket of the undersigned.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.