Another excerpt from The Good Housekeeper, Or the Way to Live Well, and to be Well While We Live: Containing Directions for Choosing and Preparing Food, in Regard to Health, Economy, and Taste… Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839 (previously posted one here) One of the first duties of woman in domestic […]
One of our young Filipino friends came over for dinner a couple nights ago. He told us the minimum wage here is just 320 pesos a day- 6.40 cents, roughly (a few cents less). I asked if people were really able to live on that, and he said yes, and if they can get a […]
The Good Housekeeper, Or the Way to Live Well, and to be Well While We Live: Containing Directions for Choosing and Preparing Food, in Regard to Health, Economy, and Taste… Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839 I love vintage era housekeeping books. I have loved them since I was quite young and […]
It is a good thing for young folks to get it straight in their minds what success in. If they think it’s money, they’ll probably be “dead failures.” Real success does not mean wealth. Whoever thinks of George Washington because he made money ? Yet the father of his country was considered a rich man […]
The pictures in this post are from the members of our congregation, from their recent preaching trips up into the mountains, but they are not necessarily in correct order and don’t necessarily match up with the text. I get place names mixed up- but they depict recent missionary journeys by people I know and respect. […]
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