Transcriber's Notes:
Other than the corrections listed below, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.
Two different versions of spelling for housekeeper and Hand-book occur in this book (advertisements: housekeeper and Hand-Book; main text: house-keeper and Hand-book).
The following misprints have been corrected:
- changed "Abbot" into "Abbott" in [Preface]
- changed "they are familliar," into "they are familiar." page [5]
- changed "or eight o'clock," into "or eight o'clock." page [34]
- changed "gratuitiously" into "gratuitously" page [51]
- changed "month" into "months" page [55]
- changed "treshhold" into "threshold" page [61]
- added " after "to go by." page [75]
- changed "negro" into "Negro" page [77]
- changed "about woman suffrage, a" into "about woman-suffrage, a" page [94]
- changed "Bee-Keeping.—There is" into "Bee-keeping.—There is" page [125]
- changed "Type-Writing.—Young women" into "Type-writing.—Young women" page [135]
- changed "excellant" into "excellent" [advertisement]
- changed "and 1881, each," into "and 1881, each" [advertisement]
- changed "134 pages, boards," into "134 pages, boards" [advertisement]
- changed "215 pages, boards," into "215 pages, boards" [advertisement]
- changed "16mo, paper," into "16mo, paper" [advertisement]