Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 37
eparedbreakfast foods, no soda-crackers, no macaroni.All the coffee had to be roasted and ground athome. Housekeepers then had very few of theconveniences that they have to-day. They hadno running water in the houses, or stationarywash-tubs or clothes-wringers or washing-ma-chines or wire… … HOUSEKEEPERS THEN HAD VERY FEW OF THE CONVENIENCES THAT THEY HAVE TO-DAY. or ammonia or borax or gasolene or moth-ballsor fly-paper or fly-screens. And they had nomatches, and they had no electric lights or gas-light, and no kerosene. * There were no sewing-machines in 1810. Allclothes were made by…
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