Colonial Woman Hand-Washing Clothes in Wooden Tubs

DIY Decorative Clothespins

Pantry Illustration Clip Art

     

Vintage Picture of Mother Closely Praying with Children

      

Vintage Image of Lovely Woman Ironing

Encouragement Cards

Old Fashioned Washing Machine ~ Wash Tubs with Hand Crank

THE WASHING ~ A Poem of Old

They that wash on Monday

Have all the week to dry;

They that wash on Tuesday

Are not so much awry;

They that wash on Wednesday

Are not so much to blame;

They that wash on Thursday

Wash for very shame;

They that wash on Friday

Wash because of need,

And they that wash on Saturday,

Oh, they are lazy indeed!

Victorian Ladies Playing the Piano with Longfellow Poem

THE SINGERS

God sent his Singers upon earthWith songs of sadness and of mirth,That they might touch the hearts of men,And bring them back to heaven again.

The first, a youth with soul of fire,Held in his hand a golden lyre;Through groves he wandered, and by streams,Playing the music of our dreams.

The second, with a bearded face,Stood singing in the market-place,And stirred with accents deep and loudThe hearts of all the listening crowd.

A gray old man, the third and last,Sang in cathedrals dim and vast,While the majestic organ rolledContrition from its mouths of gold.

And those who heard the Singers threeDisputed which the best might be;For still their music seemed to startDiscordant echoes in each heart.

But the great Master said, “I seeNo best in kind, but in degree;I gave a various gift to each,To charm, to strengthen and to teach.

“These are the three great chords of might,And he whose ear is tuned arightWill hear no discord in the three,But the most perfect harmony.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Woman Planning for the Month of January

JANUARY.

Simpler meals and wiser buying,——
More of planning,—less of hurry,——
More of smiling,—less of sighing,——
More of fun, and less of worry,
In this New Year's Resolution,
Trouble finds a swift solution.

Excerpt from ~ A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband with Bettina's Best Recipes

Edwardian Mother and Daughter Bundled up Beautifully in Winter

 

The Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott

Woman Rolling Out Pie Dough

Freeze Four ~ Easy Pie Crust Recipe

clip art illustration of vintage woman rolling out pie dough

Woman Preparing Her Pantry with Her Canned Food

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Lovely Woman Peeling Apples

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,

I would still plant my apple tree." 

~ Martin Luther

Woman Peeling Apples Clip Art

Autumn Scene of Mother Sewing with Daughter at Knee

Autumn Potpourri of Posts

Old Fashioned Canning Jars Clip Art

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Mother and Daughter Ironing

Mother Setting the Table

"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."

~ Ronald Reagan

Mother with Children and Bouquet of Flowers

"Her children arise up, and call her blessed…"

~ Proverbs 31:28a

Old Fashioned Kitchen with Towel Rack

"The kitchen is a chemical laboratory, in which are conducted a number of chemical processes by which our food is converted from its crudest state to condition more suitable for digestion and nutrition, and made more agreeable to the palate."

~ Prof. Matthew Williams, 1800's

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Mother Sitting With Children

“The career of motherhood and homemaking is beyond value and needs no justification.

Its importance is incalculable.” 

~ Katherine Short

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Keeper at Home with Old Fashioned Stove

"One of the very first things they (newlyweds) discover is the intimate relation between the kitchen and wedded happiness. That love may fulfill its delightful prophecies and realize its splendid dreams—there must be in the new home, some very practical elements... That foundation is good housekeeping. In other words, good breakfasts, dinners and suppers, a well-kept house, order, system, promptness, punctuality, good cheer—far more than any young lovers dream—does happiness in married life depend upon such commonplace things as these!"

~ Except from The Family by J.R. Miller

Mother and Daughters Spring Cleaning

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