Excerpt from The Modern Woman's Bookshelf This course of study is somewhat like one of those Thursday night dishes which are a comprehensive review of the week's meals: a bit of this and a bit of that, with something spicy to warm it up. But such is the modern home-maker's reading menu, for it is her job to know a little about a variety Of subjects that range from cooking, interior decorating, child psychology, economics and vocational guidance down to the personal problem of how to retain some vestige of her own individuality while spreading herself out so thin. Women recognize today that they have a more far-reaching Obligation to their families than merely to take care of their present comfort and well-being, that it is equally the home maker's duty to try to understand the modern world and to help make her part of it a place wherein peaceful, secure human life is possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.