Christine Herrick's 1902 work providedsvaluable information on how to find and maintain a home with very little in the way of disposable income. Noting that the proportion of income that must be dedicated to housing was rising, Herrick provided information on how to stretch a family's resources with advice on such matters as picking a location, furnishings, marketing, forming a circle of friends, amusements that cost nothing, what to do without. While concentrating particularly on creating a home in the New York City area, the advice contained within can be applied to homes in most urban areas.
Marion Harland and Christine Herrick collected Americanized versions of international recipes for this cookbook. The authors aimed to provide home cooks of the day with elegant recipes that were easily reproduced.
The Expert Maid-Servant By Christine Terhune Herrick A Classic Book on the Rules of Female Subservience The most common method of engaging a servant is through an intelligence office. There are nearly as many different kinds of these as there are types of domestics who patronize them. An office with a high standing should be selected. This is not only because a lower grade of employees is to be found at the other variety, but also on account of the methods followed in some of the cheaper offices. Such establishments occasionally have unscrupulous managers, who make a business of encouraging the maids they place to change often, in order that the renewed fee of the employer may come to the office. This practice has become common enough in some States to justify legislative intervention. In nearly every city or town there are reputable agencies, sometimes conducted as business enterprises simply, sometimes run in connection with church or benevolent societies, where a register is kept of the references of servants for whom places are secured. These references are usually held as confidential between the agent and the would-be employer, and the latter is thus enabled to learn with some certainty the qualifications of the maid she thinks of engaging.
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