"[...] In one of the few large, handsome houses in Crouy there is something else I wish we might import into America. Very simply, with no brass band of a formal organization, secretaries, or reports, the younger girls of the town are brought together to learn how to sew and cook and keep their household accounts. The splendid park which looks so lordly with its noble trees is only the playground for the little girls in gingham aprons in the intervals of their study; and the fine, high-ceilinged, spacious old salon, a ...
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"[...] In one of the few large, handsome houses in Crouy there is something else I wish we might import into America. Very simply, with no brass band of a formal organization, secretaries, or reports, the younger girls of the town are brought together to learn how to sew and cook and keep their household accounts. The splendid park which looks so lordly with its noble trees is only the playground for the little girls in gingham aprons in the intervals of their study; and the fine, high-ceilinged, spacious old salon, a veritable Henry James room, is employed in anything but a Henry James manner as the workroom where all the children from the poorer houses round about sit in the sunshine, setting beautiful fine stitches and chattering like magpies. A large room at the side has been fitted up-oh, so long before domestic science "struck" America-as a kitchen, and here the little girls daily prepare their own luncheons, after having, turn by turn, done the marketing[...]."
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Add this copy of Home Fires in France to cart. $19.00, fair condition, Sold by Top Notch Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tolar, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1918 by Henry Holt and Company.
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Good- No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Blue cover & spine: yellow lettering, spine sunned, minor scuffing. 306 pgs. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding.
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VG Hardback. Dedicated to General Pershing. This book was written in France out of a lifetime familiarity with the French It is a. True setting forth of personalities and experiences, French and American on the influence of war. It tells what the war has done to the Frech people at home.
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