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Family and consumer science : Home economicsFamily and consumer science, or home economics, involves the study of nutrition, cooking, parenting, interior decoration, textiles, gardening, and other useful aspects of home management[?]. Keeping the home in good working order remains a demanding, time-consuming task. Today, societies are arguably underrating the skill involved in keeping the home. Most of the best, most highly skilled homemakers never studied "family and consumer science" or even knew it by that name. Some have developed their skills at a finishing school. See also: Domestic technology
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loved. She pleaded her own cause eloquently. She frequently quoted
of aunts and relatives, and they had beset her sorely. At last she
thing in the fashionable world to marry a trusted servant of a human
King of All! I honor my friend because she marries the man she
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own and the names of all connected with him with shame"; and she
might.
But the patient gentleness which she usually manifested at length
and was finally brought, by Lottie's irresistible witchery, quite
resignation to a great but inevitable misfortune. Mrs. Marsden was
comforting helper.
But the postman, who brought, with increasing frequency, letters
most doted on in all the city.
With the whole energy of her forceful, practical nature, she trained
when, a year later, she gave him her hand at the sacred altar, it
refining, and Christianizing influences of a growing Western town.
are people of such force that they make themselves felt in every
and few days pass in which Lottie does not lay up in memory some
gladness, she will learn in God's good time that such deeds are
of a missionary." She was usually as wholesome as the sunshine, or if
little way of her own, when things went wrong at home or in
common sense. But she also, in the main, kept her pledge to endure
privations and trials of their lot.
While she sustained her husband's hands and doubled his usefulness
him out of half his. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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