This explanation is given because when the chapters appeared originally in the Woman's Home Companion, the author received many letters containing queries of this nature: "Is there such an organization as the National Housewives' League, the Housewives' Cooperative League, a Cooperative Store in Montclair?" "Is there such a farm as you describe under the title of the Experimental Farm at Medford? If so, I want to get in touch with its superintendent."
The material in this book, which is of profound interest to all home-makers present or prospective, is presented in fiction form because the writer, being a housekeeper, realizes that household routine is so much a business of facts and figures that studies in thrift are more acceptable to busy women when brightened by the little touch of romance that goes so far in leavening the day's work of the home-maker.
