Excerpt from Letters to a Young Housekeeper Dear Penelope: You have no idea how your plaintive little "wail" in the form of a letter went right to my heart, or what memories long forgotten it brought back to me of my early married life. You are perfectly right in thinking that I too had my "experiences," and I am so pleased that you came to me to see if I could help you by recalling what I actually went through myself and what those "experiences," almost tragic to me at the time, brought about in the way of remedies. I have no doubt that it will seem "like a leaf out of your own book" when I tell you that when we began housekeeping I started, as a matter of course, in about the same way of living that I had been accustomed to in my mother's house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.