CONTENTS | AdventAI

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1907

The Home

The Location; The Building Site; Suggestions on Building; Sewerage; Healthful Surroundings; Water-Supply; Furnishing the Home.

General Housekeeping

Cleanliness and Order; Sweeping and Dusting; Care of Floors; Living-Rooms; Sleeping-Rooms; Bath-Room and Toilet; Kitchen and Pantry; The Cellar; Care of Plumbing; Laundering; Removing Stains from Wash Goods; Clothes Cleaning; House Cleaning; Repairing Furniture; Fruit Canning; Pests; Miscellaneous Recipes; Don’ts for Housekeepers.

Diet

Good Food; Vegetarianism; Cooking; The Art of Dining; Condiments; Stimulants and Narcotics; Refreshing Drinks.

Care of the Body

Ventilation; Exercise; Rest; Bathing; Sunshine; Making the Toilet; Healthful Dress; Hygiene of the Voice and Teeth; Hygiene of the Eyes and Ears; Social Purity.

The Care and Training of Children

A Sacred Responsibility; The Baby; The Little Girl; The Little Boy; The Child’s Clothing; Exercise and Recreation; Children’s Work; Discipline; Education; True Courtesy; At Family Worship; General Suggestions; Don’ts for Parents.

The Home Treatment of Disease

Rational Remedies; Drugs; Care of the Sick; Disinfectants; Emergency Treatments; Treatment of Minor Diseases; General Index.

The primary object of “Home and Health” is to prevent rather than to cure disease, though it is often the case that the principles of healthful living which guard the body against disease are also the best and most rational agencies for restoration. This is not, however, a medical book; but it is in the truest sense a health book. It is not technical, but is practical. It contains more than two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the best means of practising the clean, wholesome principles of the gospel. It is dedicated “To the Home,” where it has a sacred mission of helpfulness.

Home and Health

A New Health Book

For more than ten years, our publishing houses, tract societies, and field workers have been asking for a book like “Home and Health,” in which the oft-repeated question would be answered, “How can we order the many details of our homes and care for our bodies in harmony with the laws of healthful living which God has revealed to us?” It is, therefore, with more than ordinary satisfaction that we introduce this very practical volume, the general scope of which is clearly set forth in the accompanying table of contents, which is given in full.

Agents Wanted

We want hundreds of agents for this excellent book; not those who are already employed in selling our other books successfully; but we do want a great army of recruits. We want hundreds of women who can most fitly and enthusiastically represent the principles taught in “Home and Health” to their sister housekeepers who need it very much. We want hundreds of men and women who have not yet had the courage to volunteer for the sale of other books,—men and women who will read the book and practise its teachings; and as a basis for all this, we want thousands of purchasers who will send to us for this book and introduce its teachings into their homes and neighborhoods.

“Home and Health” contains 592 pages, and is illuminated with over 250 original drawings made expressly for the book. The prices, post-paid, are as follows:—

Strong cloth, marbled edge, $2.50

Full law sheep, marbled edge, 3.50

Full leather, marbled edge, 4.50

Order through the State tract societies, or any of the publishing houses or their branches.

Review and Herald Publishing Assn.

Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

Ten Reasons

Why a copy of Home and Health should be in every family

1. It contains the clean, strong principles of the gospel as it should be practised in our manner of living.

2. It teaches some of the most practical means by which we may make our homes visible types of the invisible home above.

3. It contains God’s message of health which is due just now in all the world.

4. It tells how to live a plain, simple life. The fashionable standard of living is becoming more and more complicated, expensive, and health-destroying. It is worth while to learn the way to health, strength, purity, and economy.

5. This book will render valuable assistance to those who are building homes, by giving up-to-date, economical methods of building, so as to make the home both attractive and sanitary.

6. It will lighten the labors of many an overburdened housekeeper, by giving choice recipes and helpful suggestions on all the practical features of housekeeping.

7. The chapters on the care of plumbing, removing stains from wash goods, clothes cleaning, repairing furniture, etc., will enable housekeepers to practise many little economies and save heavy bills of expense. From this view-point alone the book will be a good investment, worth many times its cost each year.

8. Sections three and four are devoted to the preservation of the riches of good health, which are worth more to us than gold.

9. The chapters under section five, on the care, education, and training of children, will assist parents in the discharge of their sacred responsibilities, so that “our sons may grow up as plants in their youth; that our daughters may be corner-stones, polished after the similitude of a palace.”

10. The section on the home treatment of disease will assist people of ordinary intelligence in the use of many of nature’s effective remedies as they may be applied in a simple way in our home. It will enable parents to apply effectively home remedies in the treatment of the majority of the commoner diseases of children, such as colds, grip, whooping-cough, etc.