After washing, overlook linen, and stitch on buttons, hooks and
eyes, &c.; for this purpose keep a "house-wife's friend," full of
miscellaneous threads, cottons, buttons: hooks, &c.
For ventilation open your windows both at top and bottom. The
fresh air rushed in one way, while the foul escapes the other. This
is letting in your friend and expelling your enemy.
There is not any real economy in purchasing cheap calico for
night-shirts. Cheap calico soon wears into holes, and becomes
discoloured in washing.
Sitting to sew by candle-light at a table with a dark cloth
on it is injurious to the eyesight. When no other remedy presents
itself, put a sheet of white paper before you.
Persons very commonly complain of indigestion; how can it be
wondered at, when they seem, by their habit of swallowing their food
wholesale, to forget for what purpose they are provided with teeth.