This little book of collects the most valuable lessons from actual home economics texts from yesteryear, providing "vintage advice and practical science for happy home management." The compilation will teach you tricks from how to make friends at all ages, eliminate food waste, carve meat, mend clothing, and decorate and clean homes of all sizes. It even covers beginning new hobbies, like gardening or crossstitching. Delight in traditional wisdom that still applies to pleasant, efficient, and satisfying homekeeping today!