Easy Steps in Housekeeping; Or, Mary Frances' Adventures Among the Doll People

Jane Eayre Fryer

John C. Winston Company, 1914 - Doll furniture - 235 pages

A story that teaches little girls how to grow up to be good house-keepers, told through the lives of a family of paper dolls.

Contents

• PART: xiii
• ADVENTURES AMONG THE DOLL PEOPLE: 17
• CHAPTER PAGE I THE DOLL FAMILY WANT A HOUSE: 19
• MARY FRANCES BUILDS THE HOUSE: 25
• THE DOLLS FIND THE HOUSE: 31
• THE DOLLS PAINT THE WALLS: 37
• THE DOLLS LAY THE RUGS: 41
• THE KITCHEN TABLE CHAIRS AND DRESSER: 45
• THE DOLLS IN THE KITCHEN: 50
• THE DOLLS DINING ROOM FURNI: 58
• THE DOLLS GET A MAID: 59
• CINDA WAITS ON TABLE: 72
• WHO STOLE THE PIE?: 87
• vii: 103

Popular passages

Page 186 - This is the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.

Page 100 - " Never mind ; yours not to make reply, yours not to reason why, yours but to do your noble six hundred words every fifteen minutes on that machine.

Page 111 - The first night of my freedom. Never shall I forget its agonies." " I rejoice to hear it. Those agonies were safer, more acceptable to God, than the comforts of self-will." " My father, if my will ensnares me, lay open the snare ; I say not for the sake of my soul only, but for far, far more : for the sake of my children, for the sake of my race, for the glory of God in his dealings with men, bring me back if I «tray." " Well. Explain, explain what you propose.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Easy Steps in Housekeeping; Or, Mary Frances' Adventures Among the Doll People
• Author: Jane Eayre Fryer
• Publisher: John C. Winston Company, 1914
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: May 17, 2007
• Length: 235 pages