A Little Sewing Book for a Little Girl, etc.

Thanks are due the editor of Good Housekeeping for permission to reproduce the greater part of this book from the serial in that magazine.


CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I. Margaret's Christmas Tree]
[CHAPTER II. The Kitchen Fire]
[CHAPTER III. The Dining-room Table]
[CHAPTER IV. Washing Dishes]
[CHAPTER V. The Care of the Bedrooms]
[CHAPTER VI. Sweeping and Dusting]
[CHAPTER VII. The Bathroom; Brasses, Grates, Oilcloths, and Vestibule]
[CHAPTER VIII. Housecleaning; Cellar and Attic]
[CHAPTER IX. Laundry Work]
[CHAPTER X. The Linen Closet; Pantries; Polishing Silver; the Care of the Refrigerator; Cleaning the Lamps]
[CHAPTER XI. Marketing and Keeping Accounts]
[CHAPTER XII. The Day's Work]


CHAPTER I

MARGARET'S CHRISTMAS TREE

About Christmas time Margaret was accustomed to see things tucked out of sight whenever she came around, and her feelings were never hurt when her Pretty Aunt, or her Other Aunt, or her mother, or her grandmother said: "Don't you want to run down-stairs a little while, dear!" or, "Margaret, would you mind staying out of the sitting-room all this morning?" But this Christmas everybody said these things twice as often as usual, and Margaret wondered about it.