The Care and Feeding of Children - L. Emmett Holt
A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's
Nurses.
The Complete Home
Blessed indeed are they who are free to choose
where and how they shall live. Still more blessed are they who give abundant
thought to their choice, for they may not wear the sackcloth of discomfort nor
scatter the ashes of burned money.
Making Good On Private Duty - Harriet Camp Lounsbery
Full title: MAKING GOOD ON PRIVATE DUTY PRACTICAL
HINTS TO GRADUATE NURSES.
Manners and Social Usages - Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Many of our correspondents ask us to define what is
meant by the terms "good society" and "bad society." They say that they read in
the newspapers of the "good society" in New York and Washington and Newport, and
that it is a record of drunkenness, flirtation, bad manners and gossip,
backbiting, divorce, and slander. They read that the fashionable people at
popular resorts commit all sorts of vulgarities, such as talking aloud at the
opera, and disturbing their neighbors; that young men go to a dinner, get drunk,
and break glasses; and one ingenuous young girl remarks, "We do not call that
good society in Atlanta."
Many Ways for Cooking Eggs - Mrs. S.T. Rorer
An interesting guide, but makes no mention of
delicious things you can do with the good Korean noodle packets. Eurocentrism...
Maternal Management of Children - Thomas Bull, M.D.
Full title: The Maternal Management of Children, in
Health and Disease (1840).
Men, Women, and God - A. Herbert Gray
Full title: MEN, WOMEN, AND GOD A DISCUSSION OF SEX
QUESTIONS FROM THE CHRISTIAN POINT OF VIEW BY THE REV. A. HERBERT GRAY, D. D.
My Friends at Brook Farm - John Van Der Zee Sears
Dr. Ripley gained my confidence by claiming old
acquaintance, recalling a former meeting that I had quite forgotten. Several
years previous, when I was a very small boy indeed, my father had taken me with
him on a flying trip from New York to Boston, deciding to do so, I suppose
rather than to leave mother in a strange city with two children on her hands.
During that brief visit Dr. Ripley had taken father to call on an illustrious
artist, and he now recalled the circumstances to my mind. With his prompting I
could remember riding in a carriage; seeing a tall silvery old gentleman wearing
a black velvet robe lined with red, and tasting white grapes for the first time;
but I could not think of the silvery gentleman's name.
My Garden Acquaintance - James Russell Lowell
There is a common notion that animals are better
meteorologists than men, and I have little doubt that in immediate
weather-wisdom they have the advantage of our sophisticated senses (though I
suspect a sailor or shepherd would be their match), but I have seen nothing that
leads me to believe their minds capable of erecting the horoscope of a whole
season, and letting us know beforehand whether the winter will be severe or the
summer rainless.
NEVER AGAIN! - Edward Carpenter
Never again must this Thing happen. The time has
come -- if the human race does not wish to destroy itself in its own madness --
for men to make up their minds as to what they will do in the future; for now
indeed is it true that we are come to the cross-roads, we stand at the Parting
of the Ways.
Notes on Nursing - Florence Nightingale
If I were looking out for an example in order to
show what not to do, I should take the specimen of an ordinary bed in a private
house: a wooden bedstead, two or even three mattresses piled up to above the
height of a table; a vallance attached to the frame?nothing but a miracle could
ever thoroughly dry or air such a bed and bedding. The patient must inevitably
alternate between cold damp after his bed is made, and warm damp before, both
saturated with organic matter[2], and this from the time the mattresses are put
under him till the time they are picked to pieces, if this is ever done.
Old Christmas - Washington Irving
Here he is generally surrounded by an admiring
throng of hostlers, stable-boys, shoe-blacks, and those nameless hangers-on that
infest inns and taverns, and run errands, and do all kinds of odd jobs, for the
privilege of battening on the drippings of the kitchen and the leakage of the
tap-room. These all look up to him as to an oracle; treasure up his cant phrases.
On Books and The Housing of Them - Gladstone
Already the increase of books is passing into geometrical progression. And this
is not a little remarkable when we bear in mind that in Great Britain, of which
I speak, while there is a vast supply of cheap works, what are termed "new
publications" issue from the press, for the most part, at prices fabulously
high, so that the class of real purchasers has been extirpated...
Organic Gardener's Composting - Steve Solomon
Whenever I want to buy something it has become my
habit first to ask myself if the desired object could possibly bring me as much
pleasure as knowing that I don't have to get up and go to work the next morning.
Usually I decide to save the money so I do not have to earn more. En extremis, I
repeat the old Yankee marching chant like a mantra: Make do! Wear it out! When
it is gone, do without! Bum, Bum! Bum bi Dum! Bum bi di Dum, Bum bi Dum!
