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<text> <front> <tPage> <dTitle type=main>The Virginia House-wife</dTitle> <dTitle type=sub>Method is the Soul of Management</dTitle> <byLine>by <dAuthor>Mary Randolph</dAuthor> </byLine> <dImprint>Washington: Printed by Davis and Force, (Franklin's Head,) Pennsylvania Avenue. 1824.</dImprint> </tPage> <div type='preface'> <head>PREFACE.</head> <p>The difficulties I encountered when I first entered on the duties of a House-keeping life, from the want of books sufficiently clear and concise, to impart knowledge to a Tyro, compelled me to study the subject, and by actual experiment, to reduce every thing, in the culinary line, to proper weights and measures. This I found not only to diminish the necessary attention and labour, but to also be economical; for, when the ingredients employed, were given in just proportions, the article made, was equally good. The government of a family, bears a Liliputian resemblance to the government of a nation. The contents of t . . .
