Home and Health. Prepared and edited by a competent committee of home-makers and physicians.
Home and Health is a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitary laws, the preservation of health by clean, consistent living, and the home treatment of simpler ailments and diseases by use of natural, rational remedies instead of drugs. It contains six sections as follows: The Home: Its Location, Suggestions on Building, Sewerage, Healthful Surroundings, Water Supply, etc. General Housekeeping, including all the general features of the housekeeper's work, such as care of the rooms, Laundering, House Cleaning, Fruit Canning, Pests, etc. Care and Training of Children. The Home Treatment of Disease. The object of this work is twofold: (1) The prevention of disease by teaching the principles of life and health. (2) The classification in convenient form for reference of such recipes and items of information as are most needed in the home. The book contains nearly six hundred pages; is fully illustrated, and bound as follows: Cloth, marbled edges, $2.50; library style, $3.50; full leather, $4.50.