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Excerpt from Cassell's Household Guide to Every Department of Practical Life, Vol. 1: Being a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy IN an age when, owing to the spread of education and the consequent growth of intelligence and of competition, the affairs of human life are becoming in every depart ment more intricate and complicated, no apology can be needed for an endeavour to set out accurately, and in something like scientific order, the laws which govern, and the rules which should regulate, that most necessary and most important of all human institutions, the household. It is there that the fruits of man's labour are ultimately enjoyed; there that woman finds her chief sphere of duty, as the helpmate of man; there that the coming generation is being trained for the duties of life. It is there, then, if anywhere, that the secret of man's material well-being should be sought out and its principles carried out into constant practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.