Excerpt from The Home and the Family: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making This little volume is to be used in the elementary schools as a supplementary reader to the two textbooks, Food and Health and Clothing and Health. It is intended for the home people, too, as well as the school and to be used in those sections of the country where the home life is of the type described. This volume "The Home and the Family" tells of some of the happenings at Pleasant Valley. One of the school trustees gives a cottage near the school and Miss James, the teacher, occupies it with two of the girls in turn. The decoration and furnishing of the Ellen H.Richards House, as it is called, the repairing of household furnishings, and methods of cleaning of the home are all described. The book also considers the care of the baby as the most important member of the family, and gives a simple lesson on the care of the sick. The final chapter of the book gives a series of lessons on personal efficiency, and the authors have grouped in a summary way the thoughts of the lessons on food and clothing, cleanliness and management, which contribute to better living. 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.