Practical Housekeeping

I own a book entitled "Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping" which is a reproduction from 1877. I was looking up a recipe that I tasted before on Gingersnaps and started browsing through the practical housekeeping section in the back. I've learned rather interesting suggestions on things such as how to create my own insecticide for killing ants, how to keep windows ice-free, lost children, making artificial coral, cleaning oil paintings, and many other interesting subjects. I wanted to share this little tidbit of knowledge that I gathered as well:

Make the most of your brain and your eyes, and let no one dare tell you that you are devoting yourself to a low sphere of action. Keep cool and self-posessed. Work done quietly about the house seems easier. A slamming of oven doors, and the rattle and the clatter of dishes, tire and bewilder every body about the house. Those who accomplish much in the housekeeping - and the same is true of every other walk in life - are the quiet workers.