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The chief cause of woman's disabilities and sufferings, that women arenot trained, as men are, for their peculiar duties—Aim of this volumeto elevate the honor and remuneration of domestic employment—Woman'sduties, and her utter lack of training for them—Qualifications of thewriters of this volume to teach the matters proposed—Experience andstudy of woman's work—Conviction of the dignity and importance ofit—The great social and moral power in her keeping—The principlesand teachings of Jesus Christ the true basis of woman's rights andduties.
Object of the Family State—Duty of the elder and stronger to raisethe younger, weaker, and more ignorant to an equality ofadvantages—Discipline of the family—The example of Christ one ofself-sacrifice as man's elder brother—His assumption of a lowestate—His manual labor—His trade—Woman the chief minister of thefamily estate—Man the out-door laborer and provider—Labor andself-denial in the mutual relations of home-life, honorable, healthful,economical, enjoyable, and Christian.
True wisdom in building a home—Necessity of economizing time, labor,and expense, by the close packing of conveniences—Plan of a modelcottage—Proportions—Piazzas—Entry—Stairs and landings—Largeroom—Movable Screen—Convenient bedsteads—A good mattress—A cheapand convenient ottoman—Kitchen and stove-room—The stove-room andits arrangements—Second or attic story—Closets, cornerdressing-tables, windows, balconies, water and earth-closets, shoe-bag,piece-bag—Basement, closets, refrigerator, washtubs,etc.—Laundry—General wood-work—Conservatories-Average estimate ofcost.
Household murder—Poisoning and starvation the inevitable result ofbad air in public halls and private homes—Good air as needful as goodfood—Structure and operations of the lungs and their capillaries andair-cells—How people in a confined room will deprive the air of oxygenand overload it with refuse carbonic acid-Starvation of the livingbody deprived of oxygen—The skin and its twenty-eight miles ofperspiratory tubes—Reciprocal action of plants and animals—Historicalexamples of foul-air poisoning—Outward effects of habitual breathingof bad air—Quotations from scientific authorities.
An open fireplace secures due ventilation—Evils of substitutingair-tight stoves and furnace heating—Tendency of warm air to rise andof cool air to sink—Ventilation of mines—Ignorance of architects—Poorventilation in most houses—Mode of ventilating laboratories—Creationof a current of warm air in a flue open at top and bottom of theroom—Flue to be built into chimney: method of utilizing it.