: The home-maker by Fisher Dorothy Canfield - Domestic fiction; Sex role Fiction; Families Fiction; Spouses Fiction

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Release date: November 16, 2023

Original publication: New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1924

THE HOME-MAKER

THE SQUIRREL-CAGE A MONTESSORI MOTHER MOTHERS AND CHILDREN THE BENT TWIG THE REAL MOTIVE FELLOW CAPTAINS UNDERSTOOD BETSY HOME FIRES IN FRANCE THE DAY OF GLORY THE BRIMMING CUP ROUGH-HEWN RAW MATERIAL

THE HOME-MAKER

BY DOROTHY CANFIELD

NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

THE HOME-MAKER

PART ONE

She shook the surplus of water from her scrubbing-brush, sat back on her heels, sprinkled cleaning-powder on the bristles--the second can of cleaning-powder this month, and the price gone up so!--and setting her strong teeth hard, flew at the spots again, her whole body tense with determination.

A sober-faced little boy in clean gingham rompers, with a dingy Teddy-bear in his arms, appeared at the door of the dining-room behind her, looked in cautiously, surveyed his mother's quivering, energetic back for an instant, and retreated silently without being seen.

She stopped, breathless, dipped her hand into the pail of hot soapy water, and brought out a hemmed, substantial floor-cloth, clean and whole. When, with a quick twist, she had wrung this out, she wiped the suds from the floor and looked sharply at the place she had been scrubbing.

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