- Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper
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Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters!
- Chapters
- Intro and My Speculation in China Ware
- Something About Cooks
- Light on the Subject
- Cheap Furniture
- Is it Economy?
- Living at a Convenient Distance.
- The Picked-Up Dinner
- Who is Kriss Kringle?
- Not at Home
- Shirt Buttons
- Pavement Washing in Winter
- Regard for the Poor
- Something More About Cooks
- Not a Rag on their Backs
- Curiosity
- House Cleaning
- Broiling a Lobster
- The Strawberry-Woman
- Lots of Things
- A Cure for Low Spirits
- A Bargain
- A Peevish Day and Its Consequences
- Words
- May Be So
- "The Poor Child Died"
- The Rival Bonnets
- The Washerman
- My Borrowing Neighbor
- Experiences in Taking Boarders
- Two Ways with Domestics
- A Mother's Duty