A guide to home health from Lydia Maria Child, one of the 19th Century's most popular domestic advisors and most ardent feminists. Mrs. Child's down-to-earth advice to pre-Civil War families stands
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Walking, once again considered to be an important form of exercise, was the activity from which Thoreau continually examined man's relationship with Nature.