Excerpt from Little Helps for Home-Makers: A Wealth of Personal Practical Knowledge in Home-Making
The growth of popular knowledge due to the interchange of ideas is one of the most striking features of modern progress. The home-maker and housewife of old largely acquired her skill by listening to the household lore of her mother, grandmother and aunts, and watching their labors. She also collected recipes and ideas from many friends and acquaintances in the afternoon calls, and amid the social chat, at the sewing society, or whist party, but these, neatly set down in black and white, were often merely the outward indication of her interest in all knowledge pertaining to house life and labor.
This desire to learn is deeply rooted in our nature, and the American home is especially fortunate in varied opportunities to learn, because we inherit and utilize all the "little helps" brought to America by the Briton, Gaul, Slav, Italian, German and other races who help to make up the American nation, each contributing national and often exquisite foods, dishes and methods of housekeeping. Out of this heterogeneous immigration has developed a homogeneous race that is producing the best homes in the world.
Modern journalism has long ago acknowledged the importance of the home sentiment by gallant attention to the needs of women readers, and to details of home-making, in almost every publication. "Little Helps for Home-makers" has long been a prominent department in the National Magazine, and has crystalized into print the experience of thousands of home-loving women in all sections of the country, representing nearly every race that has founded homes in free America.
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