Excerpt from Anna Maria's House Keeping Anna Maria said the other day she would like to know if there really was any way of making housekeeping easier, short of shrinking it altogether. If there was any improvement she thought people couldn't know it any too soon. She read all the plans for making work lighter, but for them you must build a new apartment-house, with steam heat and pneumatic tubes to send groceries home and shoot the dinner up from the great central bake-house and kitchen, which was to be somewhere in the same square.

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