Excerpt from The New Housekeeper's Manual: Embracing a New Revised Edition of the American Woman's Home, Or, Principles of Domestic Science, Being a Guide to Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes, Together With the Handy Cook-BookTo be the nurse of young children, a cook, or a house maid, is regarded as the lowest and last resort of poverty, and one which no woman of culture and position can as sume without loss of caste and respectability.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.