THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
OF WORK AND PLAY


Carpentry and Woodwork
By Edwin W. Foster.

Electricity and Its Everyday Uses
By John F. Woodhull, Ph.D.

Gardening and Farming
By Ellen Eddy Shaw.

Home Decoration
By Charles Franklin Warner, Sc.D.

Housekeeping
By Elizabeth Hale Gilman.

Mechanics, Indoors and Out
By Fred T. Hodgson.

Needlecraft
By Effie Archer Archer.

Outdoor Sports, and Games
By Claude H. Miller, Ph.B.

Outdoor Work
By Mary Rogers Miller.

Working in Metals
By Charles Conrad Sleffel.

Photograph by Helen W. Cooke

Have You a Play-House?


The Library of Work and Play
HOUSEKEEPING

BY
ELIZABETH HALE GILMAN
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1911


ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY


"Look not thou down, but up!
To uses of a cup,
The festal board, lamp's flash and trumpet's peal,
The new wine's foaming flow,
The Master's lips a-glow!
Thou, Heaven's consummate cup, what need'st thou with earth's wheel?"