Excerpt from From Day to Day: Essays on Things Ordinary<br><br>Particularly is this true of a housekeeper, with leanings toward literature, who often finds relief for her spirits in looking upon her various duties and activities from the oldtheme standpoint The face of the grocer's boy, the hanging of her curtains, the dusting of her books, the putting up of fruit, indeed all of the small interests and intimacies of home life come to be regarded as legitimate subjects for themes, and she may either allow these dailies to evaporate in the thin domestic air, or she may continue the practice of putting them into written words, and of dropping them into a drawer which to her fancy becomes a theme box.<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.