In the first place, I want to say that I indeed feel complimented to have The Pentecostal Publishing Company accept my manuscript. They being the oldest and most reliable house of the kind in the south and make a specialty of standard and religious works, and to have them comment on my manuscript as they do in a letter which I have just received from them, is indeed over-whelming, and far surpasses my expectations, especially when they say it is the best book for the home they have ever seen, and also predict that "The Model House-keeper" will be the household book of the future. In speaking further of the different departments they say seem to have caught the idea so essential to health and economy in the cooking department, which they say most cook books seem to have lost sight of entirely, I must admit that I earnestly endeavored to do this in every recipe for which I claim, after a thorough test, to be the very best and most perfect recipes; a great many of which were used and handed down for several generations in my own family, and I repeat without egotism, what I have often been told that they were noted for their exquisite taste, not only in cooking, but in serving as well. In going further into my manuscript. The Pentecostal Publishing Company speaks in very complimentary terms of its different departments, but espec-
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