Making Home Profitable

Saint Maur, Kate V. (Kate Vandenhoff), 1866-Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

2.6

Word count: 299K words
Chapters: 30

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Making Home Profitable by Kate V. Saint MaurAuthor: Saint Maur, Kate V. (Kate Vandenhoff), 1866-,Language: English, Class: S: Agriculture, Release Date: Feb 25, 2019

Editor's review

This is a guide to home economics and yard management published in the early twentieth century, in which the author discusses in practical terms how to make a dwelling and its surrounding land yield real returns. The book treats the home as a small productive unit that can be run for profit, covering everyday topics such as poultry keeping, vegetable and fruit growing, and side-line arrangements, in plain language with examples close to daily life. Its value lies not in offering today's most advanced technical solutions but in presenting an approach that combines living with production, and it is also useful for understanding the history of early home economics and rural life. As a public-domain e-book, it suits readers interested in vintage homemaking wisdom, home gardening, or old domestic-economy literature for casual browsing, and it can also serve as material for writing or historical research. There is no need to read it systematically; pick chapters according to interest and treat it as a life manual tinged with its era.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers interested in the history of early home economics and rural life
Those who enjoy practical topics such as home gardening and poultry keeping
Writers or content creators seeking vintage lifestyle material
Researchers wanting to understand early twentieth-century ideas of household management

Not a good fit for

Readers seeking the latest modern agricultural technology
Self-learners who need a systematic textbook or course structure
Readers impatient with old-fashioned English and period background

Reading tips

Begin by browsing the table of contents and sample chapters related to growing in your own yard or on a balcony.
Compare the book's methods with present-day conditions and note what is still useful and what is outdated.
If using it for research, annotate the period background and the author's standpoint as you read.
No need to read every page; read in sections according to interest and take brief notes.

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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.

FAQ

Is this book suitable for modern families to follow step by step?

Many of the book's methods carry clear period limitations, and the tools, varieties, and market conditions differ from today's, so they should not be copied directly. A better use is to treat it as a source of ideas, select the parts close to your own conditions, and verify them against modern sources before putting them into practice.

Can I read this book if my English is not good?

The original is a public-domain English text with rather old-fashioned everyday language; it is not especially difficult overall but requires some English reading ability. If English is a struggle, use translation tools for support, or read the table of contents and chapter openings first to judge the difficulty.

How is this book different from ordinary gardening books?

Ordinary gardening books mostly focus on growing techniques, whereas this book emphasizes treating the home and surrounding land as a single enterprise and pays attention to returns and household side-line arrangements. It is more a manual of running a life than a single technical tutorial.

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About the author

Saint Maur, Kate V. (Kate Vandenhoff), 1866- Author · 1866

Kate V. Saint Maur (née Kate Vandenhoff, born 1866) was an English-language writer active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Public information about her life and nationality is limited, and reliable details come mainly from her signed works. One work by her is held in this collection, Making Home Profitable. Judging from its title and subject, the book addresses household readers and discusses how to manage domestic life and make family resources yield practical returns, placing it within the popular domestic-economy writing of its day. Such works typically offer practical advice grounded in experience, in plain language aimed at everyday use and at helping ordinary families manage themselves. Saint Maur's work can thus be seen as a sample of that period's domestic-writing tradition and is of some value for understanding contemporary ideas of family life and practical household reading.