title: Household Wisdom: Traditional Housekeeping for the Contemporary Home
author:  Tessa Evelegh 
description: Tessa Evelegh is a journalist, creative stylist and author specialising in home style, craft and gardening. She writes regular features for several magazines and is also a regular contributor to The Sunday Times, Telegraph Magazine, Inspirations, Period Living and BBC Good Food.
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  # The American Woman's Home
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  INTRODUCTION.
  
  
  I. THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY.
  
  
  II. A CHRISTIAN HOUSE.
  
  
  III. A HEALTHFUL HOME.
  
  
  IV. SCIENTIFIC DOMESTIC VENTILATION.
  
  
  V. THE CONSTRUCTION AND CARE OF STOVES, FURNACES,
  
  
  AND CHIMNEYS.
  
  
  VI. HOME DECORATION.
  
  
  VII. THE CARE OF HEALTH.
  
  
  VIII. DOMESTIC EXERCISE.
  
  
  IX. HEALTHFUL FOOD.
  
  
  X. HEALTHFUL DRINKS.
  
  
  XI. CLEANLINESS.
  
  
  XII. CLOTHING.
  
  
  XIII. GOOD COOKING.
  
  
  XIV. EARLY RISING
  
  
  XV. DOMESTIC MANNERS.
  
  
  XVI. THE PRESERVATION OF GOOD TEMPER IN THE
  
  
  HOUSEKEEPER.
  
  
  XVII. HABITS OF SYSTEM AND ORDER.
  
  
  XVIII. GIVING IN CHARITY.
  
  
  XIX. ECONOMY OF TIME AND EXPENSES.
  
  
  XX. HEALTH OF MIND.
  
  
  XXI. THE CARE OF INFANTS.
  
  
  XXII. THE MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
  
  
  XXIII. DOMESTIC AMUSEMENTS AND SOCIAL DUTIES.
  
  
  XXIV. CARE OF THE AGED.
  
  
  XXV. THE CASE OF SERVANTS.
  
  
  XXVI. CARE 