We believe and hope that the present work will benefit those who are undergoing a slow but gradual change in their mode of living.

This is easiest in small households, where no servants are kept at all, where the mistress is both cook and mother.

It is in such households that the change is possible, and very often most desirable.

In many cases trial will be made gradually.

The great difficulty to contend with is prejudice, or, rather, we may say, habit.