A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl Margaret's Saturday Mornings   By: Caroline French Benton

OR, MARGARET'S SATURDAY MORNINGS

The Ideal Series for Girls

A little Cook Book for a Little Girl

BY CAROLINE FRENCH BENTON

Cloth decorative, small 12mo.

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The simple, vivacious style makes this little manual as delightful reading as a story book.

A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl; OR MARGARET'S SATURDAY MORNINGS

BY CAROLINE FRENCH BENTON

Cloth decorative, small 12mo.

75 cents; carriage paid, 85 cents

A little girl, home from school on Saturday mornings, finds out how to make helpful use of her spare time.

A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl

BY AMY L. WATERMAN

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This is a book of special appeal, as it explains in simple fashion the processes of making delicious fudges, fondants, nut dainties and the like.

A Little Sewing Book for a Little Girl

BY LOUISE FRANCES CORNELL

Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color, small, 12mo.

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A splendid volume to encourage little girls in the study of the useful and beautiful art of the needle.

THE PAGE COMPANY 53 BEACON ST., BOSTON, MASS.

A LITTLE HOUSEKEEPING BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL

OR, MARGARET'S SATURDAY MORNINGS

By Caroline French Benton

AUTHOR OF "A LITTLE COOK BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL"

Boston THE PAGE COMPANY Publishers

Copyright, 1906 BY THE PAGE COMPANY

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

This little book was originally published under the title

Saturday Mornings ,

but there has been some criticism of that title because it is not sufficiently descriptive of the contents of the book. The Publishers, consequently, have thought it wise in the present edition to change the title to

A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl

OR

MARGARET'S SATURDAY MORNINGS.

This change has the advantage also of making the title uniform with the other titles in the series

A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl ,

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 PAGE

I. MARGARET'S CHRISTMAS TREE 13

II. THE KITCHEN FIRE 19

III. THE DINING ROOM TABLE 33

IV. WASHING DISHES 57

V. THE CARE OF THE BEDROOMS 70

VI. SWEEPING AND DUSTING 84

VII. THE BATHROOM; BRASSES, GRATES, OILCLOTHS, AND VESTIBULE 99

VIII. HOUSECLEANING; CELLAR AND ATTIC 110

IX. LAUNDRY WORK 122

X. THE LINEN CLOSET; PANTRIES; POLISHING SILVER; THE CARE OF THE REFRIGERATOR; CLEANING THE LAMPS 133

XI. MARKETING AND KEEPING ACCOUNTS 148

XII. THE DAY'S WORK 161

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.

"Mother," she said one day, "if you were a little girl and every one said 'Run away, now,' over and over, twice as many times as other Christmases, what would you think?"