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Excerpt from Measurements for the Household
The publication met with instant popular favor, and the entire edition was exhausted within thirty days. Applications for copies have since been received from several hundreds of housekeepers and, in order to meet this demand, a second edition was authorized. Some few changes and additions have been made with a view to increasing the value of the work, and credit is due to the United States Bureau of Standards for much of the subject-matter and many of the illustrations contained in this publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
