Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations.

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.