Cookery and Home Comforts

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Anything will do for a working dress. She will be particular always to be becomingly arrayed; and this she cannot be if her dress is not suited to her occupation. And she will wear a nice Hnen apron, going at least half-way round her figure, and having a bib to it. She won't shuffle about in slippers...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Anything will do for a working dress. She will be particular always to be becomingly arrayed; and this she cannot be if her dress is not suited to her occupation. And she will wear a nice Hnen apron, going at least half-way round her figure, and having a bib to it. She won't shuffle about in slippers either: she will wear boots neat and trim; not so tight as to make her hobble, nor so loose as to make her slide, but just easy. Did it ever strike you how much is to be learned of a person by her step? I think if I were blind I could tell a great deal about a person if I could hear the sound of her moving about. Short, quick, active, light steps are those of my model cook. And the hands?the busy, blessed hands that do?rosy enough, perhaps, but not rough or grimed; and with nails cut short and nicely kept. But you are making a grimace at what I say about hands. Why ? You think people who have much work to do cannot have rosy hands not rough or grimed, with nails cut short and nicely kept. Let us have a few words about the care of the hands before we go any further. 2.-HOW TO TAKE OARE OP YOUR HANDS. Old-fashioned farmers' wives used to hire their servants year by year at the fairs, as you have doubtless heard. The young women and girls stood in a row in the market-place, so as to be inspectedby those who came to hire. As one test of ability, the domestics were asked to exhibit their hands If those hands were rough, and knocked about, and seamed with dirt ground in, then the verdict would be in their favour?Ah you know how to work, I see. Now listen to me. A woman's hands have no business to be seamed and scored and knocked about; and those who possess such hands do not know how to work at all?there A woman may have work to do?hard, rough work, perhaps. W...