QUIET THOUGHTS. BY MARTHA CAREFUL, AUTHOR OF 'HOUSEHOLD HINTS," DOMESTIC HINTS," ETC. SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED. LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET. MDCCCLXXV. 141. m. 281. PREFACE. THREE paper in my little work entitled "Household Hints," with an earnest hope that it might be useful to a class of young housekeepers in England, who at that time would have thought it beneath a lady to know anything of the arrangement of her ménage. Many assurances of the helpful nature of this little book, with its successor "Domestic Hints," have reached me; and the demand for a new edition each succeeding year leads me still to hope, that notwithstanding the many similar publications which have followed mine, a door may still be open through which the information conveyed and the counsels contained in the pages may reach the homes of many young housewives and young mothers. |