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The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know . A Cyclopedia of Practical Information. COMPLETE DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING AND DOING OVER FIVE THOUSAND THINGS NECESSARY IN BUSINESS, THE TRADES, THE SHOP, THE HOME, THE FARM, AND THE KITCHEN. Comprising Recipes, Prescriptions, Medicines, Manufacturing Processes, Trade Secrets, Chemical Preparations, Mechanical Appliances, Aid to Injured, Antidotes, Business Information, Every-Day Law, Home Decoration, Art Work, Fancy Work, Agriculture, Fruit Culture, Stock Raising, and hundreds of other useful hints and helps . GATHERED FROM THE MOST RELIABLE SOURCES. COMPILED AND ARRANGED. By S. H. BURT . NEW YORK: S. H. Moore & Co. 1885. Yellow hard covers with gilt lettering front cover and spine. Shelf wear. Covers worn, soiled. Cloth worn top & bottom of spine. Both hinges cracked and weak but still in secure condition. No missing pages. Measures 5 1/4 by 8". Wonderful 510 pages. First and last empty pages have newspapers articles glue to them, and couple pages inside as well as you can see on the pictures. Pencil markings on couple pages. The pages are toned from age and have very little light foxing throughout which is amazing for a book its age. The book is in fair condition. The pictures are a part of the description. PREFACE. "What every one should know " are those practical, handy ways of doing, making and mending all sorts and kinds of things, ignorance of which necessitates so much extra labor, trouble, anxiety and expense. In the common daily experience of every one there are hundreds of occasions when a knowledge of " how to do" would add largely to the success, comfort or safety of life. There are emergencies constantly arising, both in the ordinary course of business and trade, and through the occurrence of accidents, that require instant attention, or the results will be most disastrous. There are innumerable instances where a practical knowledge of the elements of Medicine and Surgery would be of incalculable benefit in preserving life. The comfort, luxury and beauty of the household can be largely increased by a little study of the means of repairing our possessions. It is to supply much needed information on these and other common but essential topics that this book has been made. It has been the intention of the compiler to gather into this volume all those practical rules, recipes and hints which are capable of being followed and applied by any one without high-priced professional advice or instruction; to show the way of doing things oneself without unnecessary delay, labor or expense; to gather much that has existed in the general experience of men and women, but which has never been classified, and to present this mass of information in a handy form so that it may be easy of access whenever the constantly recurring occasions demand. A list of the contents of this book would include all the simple recipes, prescriptions and medicines, their composition, uses and effects, which a family employs; it would contain descriptions of all the manufacturing processess, the trade secrets, the chemical and mechanical agents, etc., that should form a part of the industrial equipment of every artisan and mechanic; it would contain business, law, and mercantile information by means of which the trades are conducted; it would contain complete directions for doing all those common things that daily perplex housekeepers all over the land; it would contain many hints and directions of value to the farmer, relating to the culture of the land, the growing of crops and fruits, the rearing of live stock, etc.; it would contain directions for mastering those branches of art work that are occupying so much attention at present; it would contain rules for conduct in all sorts of emergencies, from the poisoning of a human being to the breaking of a chair leg, from a catalogue of antidotes to the recipe for making a furniture varnish. All these things, and many more, this... read more

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