Home Management

Contents: Preface. 1. The importance of domestic life and your home. 2. Managing expenditure. 3. Home cleaning. 4. Cooking and kitchen. 5. Relaxing at home. 6. Decoration of home grounds. 7. Looking after the elderly parents. 8. Role of the housewife. 9. Household furnishings. 10. Poultry keeping and beekeeping. 11. Family health. Bibliography. Index.

"The teaching in Home Management should centre about the home. It should strive to give girls a realization of the importance of home making in the development of the individual, and of the great part the home plays in the formation of citizenship of the community and of the nation. Great stress is laid on hygiene and sanitation, including the study of hygienic methods of cleaning. These are great economic factors, as the cost of living is much increased by illness due to preventable diseases. In general, unhygienic methods of food preparation are omitted; when given, their evil effects are explained.

The cost of material is everywhere stressed since it is as great a factor in successful household management as it is in any other business. The chapters have been chosen to ensure that the reader gets a complete picture of the processes and techniques by which the home is managed successfully. The book will be useful to teachers and students of home science." (jacket)