#GoodHousekeeping
WRVM Collection, 1981.0006.024, Gift of Al & Ruth Leslie
Household Discoveries & Mrs. Curtis’ Cook Book, 1914
For women who couldn’t go back to school for domestic training, housekeeping manuals provided written instructions on everything from cooking a goose to beating rugs. Manuals like this one warned housekeepers “the furniture and the decorations of the house...are properly considered an index to the character of its occupants.”