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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1912
Page
63
Grace M. Viall argues home life has transformed through sanitary comforts and modern ideas. The article, aimed at educating housekeepers, urges attention to five essentials: air, food, water, sunlight, and dryness, detailing how basement air enters living spaces and affects health.
A detailed 19th or early 20th century guide explains sanitary cellar design, ventilation, lighting, and drainage. It covers site selection, underdrainage, dry cellars, separate rooms for coal and laundry, window placement, and careful construction with impervious floors. It extends to porches, kitchens, dining rooms, living areas, bedrooms, bathrooms, and stairways, advocating sunlight, cleanliness, washable finishes, and practical layouts to reduce dust, dampness, and disease. It emphasizes routine whitewashing, avoiding clutter, and ensuring air flow and easy cleaning throughout the home.
A twentieth century promotional piece invites homekeepers to join the People's Institute of Domestic Science. It boasts college-quality guidance delivered at home through a large staff of experts. It teases next week’s topic by Winnifred Harper Cooley on abolishing adulteration and urges immediate membership.
Weekly menu plan for a six person household outlines varied seasonal dishes. Includes breakfasts lunches and dinners with recipes for strawberry shortcake lentil stew creamed potato soup veal dish and many kitchen-ready items. Features cost guidance per person and methods for using leftovers along with bread and dessert ideas.
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