1888 Antique Cookbook HOUSEWIFE\'S LIBRARY 2 Books in 1 Volume HUGE Color Plates For Sale

THE HOUSEWIFE\'S LIBRARY: (MANY VOLUMES IN ONE.),
FURNISHING THE VERY BEST HELP IN ALL THE NECESSITIES, INTRICACIES, EMERGENCIES,
AND VEXATIONS THAT PUZZLE A HOUSEKEEPER IN EVERY DEPARTMENT
OF HER DUTIES IN THE HOME.
HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT, DOMESTIC COOKERY, HOME FURNISHING, HOME DECORATION, POLITE DEPORTMENT, TRYING EMERGENCIES, CARE OF CHILDREN, GAMES, AMUSEMENTS, ETC., GENERL HINTS.
VERY CAREFULLY PREPARED AFTER LABORIOUS RESEARCH BY A SKILLED
CORPS OF EXPERTS IN THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.
APPROPRIATELY ILLUSTRATED.
Hubbard Bros., Publishers
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, Kansas City.
A. I. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco.

This gigantic book is actually TWO BOOKS combined into one volume! The first book is entitled \"The Latest and Best Cook Book\" with a publication date of 1888. This book is complete in its text and has 369 pages(including full index). The second book is entitled \"How To Make Home Happy, A Housekeeper\'s Hand Book\" also with a publication date of 1888. This book is complete as well in its text and has 309 pages (including full index). This is truly a scarce offering. I have been selling antiquarian and rare cookbooks for more than 20 years and honestly can say that I have never seen this one. It is so rare, that even after a careful worldwide search, no other can be found! Please take a look at this incredible compilation below. I have done my best to describe the sheer wealth of information but it\'s nearly impossible to capture all of it. The entire book is fully illustrated as well! It was difficult to choose which photos to include here. Please know that they are not meant to sum up the book in any way, but to give you a feel for what\'s included.

Book 1:

THE LATEST AND BEST COOK BOOK.
A COMPREHENSIVE TREATMENT OF THE SUBJECT OF COOKERY -
ANCIENT AND MODERN - COOKING UTENSILS &C., WITH ABUNDANT INSTRUCTIONS IN EVERY BRANCH OF THE ART -
SOUPS. FISH, POULTRY, MEATS, VEGETABLES, SALADS, BREAD, CAKES,
JELLIES, FRUITS, PICKLES, SAUCES, BEVERAGES, CANDIES, SICK-ROOM DIET,
CANNING, CARVING, SERVING MEALS, MARKETING &C., &C., INCLUDING
OVER 800 VALUABLE RECIPES.
EDITED BY
A SKILLED CORPS OF PRACTICAL EXPERTS.
Appropriately Illustrated.
Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, Publishers
1888

The Latest and Best Cook Book: A Comprehensive Treatment of the Subject of Cookery is a remarkable Victorian culinary treasury that captures the spirit of the late nineteenth-century kitchen with confidence, practicality, and extraordinary depth. Published by Hubbard Brothers in 1888, this ambitious volume was compiled by a skilled corps of practical experts who combined generations of household wisdom with the newest cooking methods of the era, creating a cookbook designed to educate as well as inspire.

Within its pages readers discover far more than a simple collection of recipes. This comprehensive manual explores every aspect of domestic cookery, from selecting the finest ingredients and mastering kitchen equipment to preparing elegant dinners, everyday family meals, breads, pastries, preserves, desserts, beverages, and countless regional favorites. More than 800 carefully chosen recipes are accompanied by practical instructions that transform even the most complex dishes into achievable successes for cooks of every experience level.

Beautifully reflecting the values of Victorian home life, the book serves as both a trusted culinary guide and an engaging historical record. It reveals how families planned meals, organized efficient kitchens, entertained guests, and preserved seasonal harvests long before modern conveniences. Rich with practical advice, economical hints, and timeless techniques, it offers a fascinating glimpse into the daily rhythms of American households during one of the nation’s most influential culinary periods.

Whether treasured by collectors of antique cookbooks, historians of domestic life, or adventurous home cooks seeking authentic nineteenth-century recipes, The Latest and Best Cook Book remains an enduring classic. Its wealth of tested recipes, practical instruction, and historical charm make it an invaluable addition to any culinary library—a cookbook that continues to celebrate the enduring art of good cooking more than a century after its publication.

Excerpt from Preface of Latest and Best Cook Book:

\"How to cook and how to serve what has been cooked, are vitally important and exceedingly complicated problems. On both these rocks many a household has suffered shipwreck. To buy food and spoil it in the cooking, or to cook food and spoil it in the serving, are either of them deplorable blunders. Nobody is fed and strengthened pleasurably by these failures, but somebody is sure to be irritated, and possibly sickened thereby. Cook good victuals well and serve well-cooked victuals temptingly. Then will the family board rival the hotel board in attractiveness, and the family boarder will be well content at home...\"

Includes the following recipes (listed from Index):

Anchovy Sauce * Angel\'s Food * Apées * Appleade * Apple Butter: Corer and Slicer, Dumplings, Fritters, Parer, Pie, Snow, Water * Apple Float: Meringue Pie, Sauce, Transparent * Apples: Baked, Roast * Arrow-root Broth: Jelly * Artichokes, Boiled * Asparagus, Boiled: Boiler, Sauce * Bacon: Broiled or Fried * Bananas and Cream: Fried * Barley Bread: Water * Batter Pails * Beans: Baked, Boiled, Lima, String * Bean Soup * Beef: a la Mode, Corned, Curried, Cutting up, Deviled, Extract of, Hash, Minced, Roast, Savory, Soup, Soup with Okra, Spiced, Stew, Tea * Beefsteak, Broiled: Pudding, Stuffed, with Onions, with Tomatoes * Beer: Ginger, Quick, Spruce * Beets, Boiled * Beverages * Bill of Fare * Bird Trussed for Roasting * Biscuit: Cream, Light, Potato, Tea, Flavored, Glace, Graham, Maryland, Short, Soda, Yorkshire * Blackberry Mush: Sirup * Blanc-mange: Chocolate, Corn Starch, Neopolitan, Tapioca, Boston Brown Bread * Brandied Peaches * Brandy: Cherry, Raspberry, Sauce * Bread: Brown, Corn, Fancy, Graham, Milk, Mixer and Kneader, Potato, Pumpkin, Rice, Rye, Salt Rising, Unleavened, Vienna, Wheat, Stuffing for Fish * Breakfast Cocoa * Breast of Veal * Brisket * Broilers * Broma * Broom Holder * Broth: Chicken, Mutton * Brown Betty * Browned Flour for Soups * Buckwheat Cakes * Bun, Cinnamon * Buns: Hot Cross * Butter: Apple, Peach, Sauce, Scotch * Cabbage a la Cauliflower: Boiled, Salad * Cafe Noir * Cake: Almond Sponge, Black, Bread, Chocolate, Cider, Cinnamon, Citron, Coconut, Coffee, Cork, Cream, Cream Sponge, Cup, Currant, Delicate, Farmer\'s Fruit, Fig, Fruit, Gold, Hickorynut, Ice-cream, Jelly, Lincoln, Loaf Dutch, Marble, Molasses, Moravian, Neapolitan, New Year\'s, One, two, three, four, Orange, Peach, Pinafore, Pineapple, Plum, Poor Man\'s, Pound, Puff, Silver, Snow, Spice, Sponge, Tea, Tumbler, Union, Walnut, Washington, Watermelon, Wedding, White Mountain, White Pound, Wine * Cake Baking * Cake Pans * Cakes: Buckwheat, Cinnamon, Flannel, Groundnut, Hominy, Indian Griddle, Knickerbocker, Lemon, Potato, Seed, Shrewsbury * Cakes: Sugar, Rice, Sour Milk, Walnut * Calf\'s Liver or Heart: Tongue * Candied Fruits: Nuts * Candy: Almond, Coconut, Cream, Ice-cream, Molasses, Peanut * Canned Asparagus * Canned: Beans, Corn, Gooseberries, Grapes, Peaches, Pears, Pineapple, Plums, Strawberries, Tomatoes * Can Opener * Canvas-back Duck * Caper Sauce * Capons * Caramels, Chocolate * Carving: Calf\'s Head, Turkey, Broiled Chickens, Fish, Ham, Roast Beef, Roast Chicken, Roast Ducks and Geese, Roast Pig, Roast of Lamb, Roast Rabbit, Roasts of Mutton, Roasts of Venison, Small Birds, Steaks, Tongue * Catfish, Fried * Catsup: Grape, Green Tomato, Mushroom, Oyster, Tomato, Walnut * Cauliflower, Boiled * Celery Sauce: Stewed * Chaffing Dishes * Charlotte Russe * Cheek or Jowl * Cheese-cake Pie * Cherry Stoner * Chicken: Broiled, Broth, Croquettes, Fricasseed, Fried, Jellied, Jelly, Panada, Pie, Pot-pie, Pressed, Roast, Smothered, Stewed, Trussed for Roasting, Salad * Chili Sauce * Chinese Bill of Fare * Choca * Chocolate: Creams, Frothed * Chow-chow * Chowder, Fish * Chuck Ribs * Cinnamon Cakes * Clam Chowder: Fritters, Soup * Clams: Deviled, Stewed * Cleaning a Shad * Clothes Sprinkler * Coconut Steeples * Cocoa Shells * Cod, Baked * Coffee: Iced, Meringued * Coldslaw * Cookery: Books on, History of * Cookies: Soft, Cocoanut * Cooking, Art ofCooking, Object of: Schools of, Science of, Utensils, Ancient * Corn: Baked, Boiled Green, Fritters, Grater, Soup * Corned Beef, Boiled: Beef Soup * Cornstarch Blanc-mange * Costly Entertainments * Covers for Dishes * Crabs, Scalloped * Cracked Wheat * Cracker Panada * Cranberry Sauce * Cream, Chocolate Bavarian: Chocolates, Dates, Fritters, Italian, Orange, Pink, Puffs, Sauce, Spanish, Tapioca, Turret, Velvet, Walnuts, Whipped * Creams and Jellies * Croquettes and Fritters: Chicken, Hominy, Lobster, Oyster, Oyster Plant, Potato, Rice, Veal * Crullers * Crimpets * Cucumber Pickles * Cucumbers, Sliced * Crystallized Fruit * Cup Custard * Curious Dishes * Currant Fritters * Custard, Chocolate: Rice * Dates, Cream * Desserts * Deviled Eggs: Lobster * Dinners, Every-day * Doughnuts * Drawn Butter * Dressing, plain French * Dried Pea Soup * Duck, Canvas-back: Properly Trussed, Roast * Dumplings: Apple, Drop, Lemon, Peach * Dutch Cake * East India Pickle * Eclairs a la Creme * Eels, Fried * Egg Balls * Egg Baskets: Cream, Gruel, Nog, Raw, Sandwiches, Toast * Eggs: a la Mode, Baked, Boiled, Boiled with Sauce, Curried, Deviled, Fricasseed, Pickled, Poached, Scrambled, Soft Boiled, Steamed, Sur le Plat, Toasted, Whirled * Eggplant: Baked, Fried * Family Breakfast in Season * Family Dinners in Season * Fancy Breads * Fig Paste * Figs a la Genevieve * Fillet of Veal * Fish Balls: Chowder, in Season * Fish Omelet: Oysters, etc., White * Fishturner * Flannel Cakes * Flaxseed Tea * Flint Pickles * Floating Island * Food in Season * Forks * French Fritters: Pickle, Rolls, Straws * Fritters and Croquettes * Fritters: Apple, Bread, Clam, Corn, Cream, Currant, French, Fruit, Hominy, Oyster, Parsnip, Plain, Potato, Rice, Spanish, Venetian * Frosting: Cocoanut, Cooked * Frothed Cafe au Lait * Fruit Crystallized: Fritters * Fruits: Candied, Frozen, Nuts, etc. * Game and Poultry: in Jelly, How to Keep * Garnishes * Gas and Coal Stoves Compared: Cooking Stoves, Hot Closet * Gingerbread * Ginger Beer: Snaps * Goose, Roast: Trussed for Roasting * Grapes in Brandy * Gravy * Green Pea Soup * Greens, Boiled * Griddle Cakes: Graham, Indian * Groundnut Cakes * Gruel: Egg, Indian-meal, Oatmeal * Gumbo Soup * Gum Drops * Halibut: Baked, Boiled, Cutlets * Ham and Eggs: Baked, Boiled, Glazed, Toast * Hard Sauce * Head of Veal * Heart of Beef * Heart, Baked * Hoe Cake * Hominy, Boiled: Cakes, Croquettes, Fritters * Horseradish, Plain: Sauce * Hot Cakes: Cross Buns, Water Generator * Ice-cream: Chocolate, Freezers, Lemon, Orange, Peach, Pineapple, Raspberry, Strawberry, Vanilla * Icing: Almond, Banana, Chocolate, Lemon, Orange * Imperial * Incidental Helps * Indian Griddle Cakes * Invalid Diet * Irish Stew * Italian Cream * Jam: Barberry, Blackberry * Jam: Cherry, Damson, Green Gage, Raspberry, Strawberry, White Currant * Jams * Japanese Bill of Fare * Jellied Chicken: Oranges * Jellies * Jelly: Apple, Barberry, Black Currant, Calf\'s Foot, Crab-Apple, Currant, Grape, Lemon, Orange, Peach, Raspberry, Roll, Wine, White Currant, Quince * Johnny Cake * Jujube Paste * Julien Soup * Jumbles: Currant * Kidney, Beef: Broiled * Kisses * Kitchens * Kitchen Utensils * Lady Fingers * Lamb and Mutton * Lamb: Chops, Breaded, Broiled, Roast, Saddle of, Steaks, Fried, Stewed in Butter * Leeks, Boiled * Leg of Beef: Lamb, Boiled, Mutton, Mutton, Boiled, Pork, Roasted, Veal * Lemonade * Lemon Sauce * Lemon Squeezer * Lettuce Salad * Lima Beans * Linen for the Table * Lobster, Boiled: Croquettes, Deviled, Patties, Salad, Sauce, Soup, Stewed * Loin of Mutton: Veal * Love Knots * Low-down Grate * Lunch Party Menu * Macaroni, Baked: Soup, Stewed, with Tomatoes * Macaroons: Chocolate * Marketing * Marmalade: Apple, Grape, Orange, Peach, Pear, Pineapple, Quince * Maryland Coldslaw * Maryland Stewed Oysters * Mayonnaise Sauce * Mead * Meat Balls, for Soup: Omelet * Menu: for Breakfast, for Dinner, for Supper, for Tea Company * Meringue, Peach * Meringues * Milk Boilers: Porridge, Thickened * Mince Pie * Mint Sauce * Mock Fried Oysters: Terrapin, Turtle Soup * Molasses Candy * Molds: for Puddings * Muffin Rings * Muffins: Bread, Corn, Graham, Hominy, Rice * Mushroom Sauce * Mushrooms: Broiled, Stewed * Mustard, Mixed * Mutton: Choosing, and Green Peas, Broth, Chops, Broiled, Dressed like Venison, Roast * Napkins, Fancy Folding of * New England Chowder * Noodles, Home-made * Nursery Stove * Nut Cracker * Nutmegs * Nuts * Oak Balls * Oil Stoves * Okra in Beef Soup * Omelet: Baked, a la Mode, Cheese, Meat or Fish, Plain, with Oysters * Onion Soup * Onions: Boiled, Fried, Pickled * Oranges * Orange and Cocoanut: Desert, Trifle * Oyster, Cream: Croquettes, Fritters, Macaroni, Omelet, Patties, Pie, Sauce, Toast * Oyster Plant Croquettes: Stewed * Oysters, Fish, etc.: Broiled * Oysters: Fried, Mock Fried, Panned, Roasted, Scalloped, Spiced or Pickled, Stewed * Ox-tail Soup * Panada: Bread, Chicken * Panned Oysters * Pans for Cake * Paring-knives * Parsnip Fritters * Parsnips: Boiled, Fried * Partridges, Roast * Paste Shells * Pastry * Peach Dumplings * Peaches: Fried, Frosted, Preserved, Sliced, Stewed * Pears: Baked, Canned * Peas, Boiled Green * Pepper Hash * Peppermint Drops * Perch, Fried * Pheasants, Roast * Piccalilly * Pickled: Beets, Peppers, Eggs, Garlic and Eschalots, Mushrooms, Nasturtiums, Onions, Oysters, Red Cabbage, Salmon, Walnuts, Watermelon * Pickle: East India, French * Pickles and Catsups: Cucumber, Sweet, Sweet Tomato * Pie-crust: Glace * Pie, ApplePie: Apple Meringue, Cheese-cake, Cherry, Cocoanut, Cream, Custard, Gooseberry, Lemon, Mince, Orange, Oyster, Peach, Peach Meringue, Pumpkin, Rhubarb, Sweet Potato * Pigeons, Roast * Pig, Roast * Pin Bone * Pineapples * Pone * Pop Overs * Pork: Boiled, Cutlets, Roast, Tenderloins, Baked * Porridge, Milk * Potato Biscuit: Croquets, Fritters, Parer, Salad * Potatoes: Boiled, Sweet, Fried, Fried, Sweet, Mashed, Roasted, Sweet, Roasted, White, Roasted with Meats, Saratoga, Boiled, White, Stewed * Pot-pie: Chicken, Veal * Poultry: and Game * Preserved: Cherries, Citron, Damsons, Green Gages, Peaches, Pears, Pineapples, Quinces, Strawberries, Watermelon Rind * Preserves * Pressed Chicken * Provision for Guests * Pudding: Almond, Apple, Apple Batter, Arrow Root, Baked Hasty, Baked Indian, Batter, Bird\'s Nest, Bread, Cabinet, Cherry, Chocolate, Cocoanut, Corn, Cottage, Delicious, Delmonico, English Plum, Farina, Fruit Bread, Hasty, Jelly, Lemon, Minute, Orange, Paradise, Plain Tapioca, Poor Man\'s Plum, Queen\'s, Rennet, Rice, Sago, Berry or Fruit, Snow, Spice, Suet, Tapioca and Apple, Vermicelli * Puff Paste * Puffs: Cream, German, Indian, White * Pumpkin Bread: Pie * Punch: Milk, Roman * Quail on Toast * Quails, Roast * Quick Beer * Quinces * Rabbit: Fried, Roast, Trussed for Roasting * Raspberry Vinegar * Raw Egg * Refrigerators * Rhubarb, Stewed * Rice, Boiled: Cakes, Croquettes, Fritters, Milk * Rockfish, Boiled * Roley-poley * Rolls: Breakfast, English, French, Geneva, Parker House, Plain, Vienna * Royal Displays * Rusk: Sweet, Tea * Sago * Salad: Cabbage, Chicken, Lettuce, Potato, Salmon * Salads and Sauces * Sally Lunn * Salmon: Baked, Broiled, Steaks, Fried, Boiled, Pickled * Salt Pork, Broiled * Sandwiches, Egg * Saratoga Potatoes * Sauce: Anchovy, Asparagus, Boiled Egg, Brandy, Butter, Caper, Celery, Chili, Cranberry, Cream, Drawn Butter, Hard, Horseradish, Lemon, Mayonnaise, Mint, Mushroom, Oyster, Strawberry, Tomato, Vanilla, Venison, White, Wine * Sauces in General * Sausage: Fried, Meat, Baked * Scalloped Crabs: Oysters * Scallops * Scrappel * Serving Meals * Slapjacks * Smoked Salmon * Snipe, Roast * Shad: Baked, Broiled * Sherbet * Shin of Beef, Stewed: Veal * Short-cake, Scotch: Strawberry * Shoulder of Veal * Shrub, Currant and Raspberry * Soaking Salt Fish * Soft-shell Crabs * Soup: Bean, Beef, Chicken, Clam, Corn, Corned Beef, Dried Pea, Green Pea, Gumbo, Julien, Lobster, Macaroni, Mock Turtle, Onion, Ox-tail, Portable * Soup: Southern Gumbo, Tomato, Turkey, Vegetable, Vermicelli, White * Soups, Soup Stock, etc. * Sour Milk Cakes * Souse * Spanish Cream: Fritters * Spare-rib Roast * Spiced or Pickled Oysters: Peaches * Spinach, Boiled * Spruce Beer * Squash: Boiled, Fried * Strainers * Strawberries in Wine * Strawberry Sauce * String Beans * Stuffing: Oyster, Plain, Potato * Succotash * Sweet Breads: Broiled, Stewed * Sweet Pickles * Syllabub * Table Ornaments * Taffy: Butter, Lemon * Tapers * Tarts * Tea: a la Russe, Baskets, Beef, Flaxseed, Iced, Iced a la Russe * Terrapin * Toast: Buttered, Cream, Dry, Egg, French, Milk, Oyster, Soft, Water * Tomatoes, a la creme * Tomatoes and Beefsteak: Baked sliced, Baked whole, Broiled, Fried, Stewed * Tomato Catsup: Sauce, Sauce, Green, Soup, Soy * Tongue, Boiled: Calf\'s * Trout: Fried, Stewed * Turkey: Boiled, Boned, Roast, Soup * Turnips, Boiled * Tutti Frutti * Vanilla Sauce * Veal: Boiled Fillet, Croquettes, Cutlets, Broiled, Cutlets in Cracker, Hash, Loaf, Minced, Pie, Pot-pie, Pot-Roasted Fillet, Pressed, Roast, Scallops, Stew, Sweetbread, with Oysters, with Rice, with Peas * Vegetables * Vegetable Slicer: Soup * Venison: Sauce, Stakes, Broiled * Venetian Fritters * Vermicelli Soup * Vinegar, Raspberry * Waffle Baker * Waffles: Raised, Rice * Waffles: Quick * Wafers, Scotch * Water Ices * Watermelons * What to Avoid * Wheat Bread * Whipped Cream * White Fish * Wine: Currant, Raspberry, Sauce, Whey * Yeast and Yeast Cakes: Brewers\', Compressed, Hop, Patent, Potato * Yorkshire Pudding with Beef.

Book 2:

HOW TO MAKE HOME HAPPY
HOUSEKEEPER\'S HAND BOOK.
COMPRISING - Eminently useful and practical suggestions upon
Home Furnishing;Cheerful Decoration; Economy in Necessities;
Rules of Polite Deportment; What to do in Emergencies;
Taking care of Children: General Hints upon Various Subject;
Social Games; Amusements, Entertainments, etc., etc., with
COPIOUS VALUABLE ILLUSTRATIONS.
EDITED BY A SKILLED CORPS OF AUTHORITIES.
Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, Publishers.
1888.

How to Make a Home Happy: Housekeeper’s Hand-Book is a fascinating Victorian guide to creating a beautiful, comfortable, and well-managed home. Published by Hubbard Brothers in 1888 and edited by a skilled corps of authorities, this comprehensive volume reflects the ideals of the late nineteenth century, combining practical household wisdom with decorative arts, etiquette, health, child-rearing, entertaining, gardening, and hundreds of ingenious domestic hints.

Far more than a housekeeping manual, the book serves as an encyclopedia of Victorian home life. Its pages cover everything from interior decoration, furniture arrangement, and artistic crafts to cooking tips, cleaning methods, floral design, games, parlor amusements, conversation, correspondence, etiquette, and the proper care of children. Readers will also discover advice on plumbing, lighting, ventilation, heating, first aid, household emergencies, and countless clever solutions to everyday problems.

Beautifully organized with an extensive index, the work offers a remarkable glimpse into the aspirations of the Victorian household, where comfort, refinement, and good management were considered essential to a happy home. Rich in period illustrations, practical instruction, and charming social customs, it captures the ingenuity and elegance of domestic life in the late 1800s.

An outstanding addition to any collection of antique housekeeping books, Victorian domestic manuals, home decorating references, or nineteenth-century social history, How to Make a Home Happy remains both an engaging historical resource and a delightful window into the art of gracious living in the Victorian era.

Excerpt from Preface:

\"Not every place where one may sleep and eat is worthy to be called a home. About home there are the ideas of comfort, repose, peace, content. Where these are wanting none can be at home. So ill-furnished and ill-managed may be one’s abode that it is more a prison than a place of rest. Such a place is not a home.

No external surroundings can guarantee a soul at rest. Some people are unhappy amid the greatest luxury. Many a sleepless night is passed on a bed of down. Many a life of misery is passed in royal mansions. But yet it remains true that other things being equal, those persons are happiest whose wants and tastes are most fully met.

The problem of making home happy cannot be solved by any one line of answers. Many sources must contribute to that coveted attainment and these sources are considered in this volume. There are Necessities for every happy home, and these are first discussed...\"

Index, as listed:

Acting Game, The * Albertine Ware * Amusements, Games, etc. * Aprons * Aquariums: Cement for * Archery * Artistic Architecture * Autumn Leaves * Aviaries * Backgammon: Russian * Bad Habits in Children * Bagatelle * Base Ball * Baskets: Fancy, Scrap, Work * Bedroom Sets * Bedsteads: Telescope * Birds Have Feathers, Game of * Book Cases: Racks * Bouquet Making * Brackets, Cabinets, etc. * Brooms, care of * Canary Birds * Card Stands * Care of Children * Carpets * Carved Pedestal: Work * Ceilings, Ornamented * Charmed Quarter * Chandeliers * Checkers * Chess * Children: Ailings of, Care of * Clinkers, to Remove * Closets * Clothing for Children * Concert, Game of * Consequences, Game of * Conversation * Correspondence * Courtship * Covers for Tables * Crambo * Cricket * Croquet * Curtains * Decoration: Home, from Nature, of the White House * Deportment in Public Places * Dictionary, Game of * Dining-room * Dinners * Dish-cloths * Drainage * Dress * Dusters * Dynamite Trick * Early Schooling * Easels * Easy Chairs, Lounges, etc. * Emergencies, Trying * Entering a Room * Exterior Decorations * Fancy Baskets * Ferneries * Fire Screens * Fire—What to Do * Floors: Inlaid, Marble, Wood Carpeting * Floral Fancies: Letters * Flour, to Keep Sweet * Flower Pots * Flowers * Flowers, Dried * Food for Children * Forfeits, Tasks for Redeeming * Formal Calls * Four Elements, Game of * Frescoed Walls * Fruit-Basket, Game of * Fruit Table * Fuel * Furniture, Combination * Games, Amusements, etc. * Gardens: French, Italian, Roman * Gas Fixtures: Heating Stoves, Works, Home * General Hints * Germicide * Gerveta * Going to Jerusalem, Game of * Gunshot Wounds * Gypsy Kettles * Habits of Speech * Hams, to Keep * Handbags for Ladies * Hand-shaking * Hanging-baskets * Hat Racks * Heating * Hedges * Hereditary Influences * Hidden Word, Game of * Hints on Home Work * Holders * Home Decoration: Furnishing, Government, Necessities * How? When? and Where?: Game of * Horrible Stories * Hunt the Ring, Game of * Hunt the Whistle, Game of * I Love My Love, Game of * Illumination * Initiation, Game of * Introductions * Ironing Tools: Shirts * Jardiniere Stands * Kerosene, to Test * Key Game * Kindling, Cheap * Kitchens * Lamps: Artisan’s, Student’s, to prevent Smoking, Gas Fixtures, etc. * Landscape Gardening * Lawns * Lawn Tennis * Library, The * Lincrusta-Walton * Longfellow’s Home * Low-down Grate * Magic Music: Parlor * Magnetized Cane * Mantel Decorations * Marriage Anniversaries * Meat, to Keep Fresh * Menagerie, Game of * Mosaic Work * Mosses * Mourning Attire * Mushrooms, to Test * Music Portfolio: Stand * Needle-books * Notes of Introduction, etc. * Nursery, The * Oil-cloths, Care of * Paper and String * Paper Hangings * Parlor * Pedestals * Perfumes * Personal Habits * Physical Development * Pictures, etc. * Pie-board * Pin-cushions, Ornamental * Plumbing, Good * Polite Deportment * Post, Game of * Pots and Kettles * Pottery * Poultry, to Make Tender * Proverbs, Game of * Railroad Accidents * Receptions * Rhyming Game * Ribbon Beds and Borders * Rockeries * Rugs * Rustic Chairs, etc. * Rust, to Prevent or Remove * Sanitary Conditions * Scrap Baskets * Secretary, Game of * Sewing, Ornamental * Sofa Cushions * Soldering * Stained Glass Windows: Stains, to Remove * Statuary * Stove, to Clean * Tapestry, The Bayeux * Teething * Tiles * Toilet Tables * Toasting, Game of * Traveling * Traveling Secret, Game of * Trying Emergencies * Tunnel Question, Game of * Upholstery * Wonderful Mansions, The * Yarns for Ladies * Yes, Yes, How Long to Boil: Eggs * Ventilation * Vestibule Furniture * Views * Vinegar * Wall-pockets * Walls: Frescoed, Silk, Satin, or Lace * Warning * Water * Water Lilies * Weights * What’s My Thought Like? * When to Go * Who Are You, Game of * Where, What, Whom, Game of * Whisks * Widows’ Cards * Wind and Wind, Game of * Window Seats * Work Baskets * Work-stand * Yes and No, Game