A LITTLE HOUSEKEEPING BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL

Or, MARGARET'S SATURDAY MORNINGS

The Ideal Series for Girls

A little Cook Book for a Little Girl

By Caroline French Benton

Cloth decorative, small 12mo.

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The simple, vivacious style makes this little manual as delightful reading as a story-book.

A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl; or Margaret's Saturday Mornings

By Caroline French Benton

Cloth decorative, small 12mo.

75 cents; carriage paid, 85 cents

A little girl, home from school on Saturday mornings, finds out how to make helpful use of her spare time.

A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl

By Amy L. Waterman

Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color, small, 12mo.

75 cents; carriage paid, 85 cents

This is a book of special appeal, as it explains in simple fashion the processes of making delicious fudges, fondants, nut dainties and the like.

A Little Sewing Book for a Little Girl

By Louise Frances Cornell

Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color, small, 12mo.

75 cents; carriage paid, 85 cents

A splendid volume to encourage little girls in the study of the useful and beautiful art of the needle.

THE PAGE COMPANY

53 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

A LITTLE HOUSEKEEPING BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL

Or, MARGARET'S SATURDAY MORNINGS

By

Caroline French Benton

AUTHOR OF

"A LITTLE COOK BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL"

Boston

THE PAGE COMPANY

Publishers

Copyright, 1906

By The Page Company

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

This little book was originally published under the title

Saturday Mornings,

but there has been some criticism of that title because it is not sufficiently descriptive of the contents of the book. The Publishers, consequently, have thought it wise in the present edition to change the title to

A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl

Or

Margaret's Saturday Mornings.

This change has the advantage also of making the title uniform with the other titles in the series—

A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl,

A Little Sewing Book for a Little Girl, etc.

Thanks are due the editor of Good Housekeeping for permission to reproduce the greater part of this book from the serial in that magazine.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

MARGARET'S CHRISTMAS TREE

About Christmas time Margaret was accustomed to see things tucked out of sight whenever she came around, and her feelings were never hurt when her Pretty Aunt, or her Other Aunt, or her mother, or her grandmother said: "Don't you want to run down-stairs a little while, dear!" or, "Margaret, would you mind staying out of the sitting-room all this morning?" But this Christmas everybody said these things twice as often as usual, and Margaret wondered about it.

"Mother," she said one day, "if you were a little girl and every one said 'Run away, now,' over and over, twice as many times as other Christmases, what would you think?"

Her mother laughed. "Well," she said, "I suppose I should think I was going to have twice as many presents as usual."

Margaret drew a long breath. "Would you?" she asked, thoughtfully. "Two pairs of skates, and two sets of furs, and two boxes of handkerchiefs, and two pink kimonos, and six books; that would be twice as many presents as last year. But what does one