The Household Searchlight Recipe Book - 1940 Edition 13th Printing 1800's A pup is a pup

A pup is a pup of course unless you are a fanciful working dog like this vintage cast iron doorstop

The spine is tight and all other pages are intact

Such is the case with this pretty set of 5 matching demitasse cups

their architectural significance

This lovely piece of vintage ornamental cast-iron could have come from a number of different places around the exterior of a bygone-era house

The Household Searchlight Recipe Book - 1940 Edition 13th Printing 1800's A pup is a pupIn this seven room house lives a family of specialists whose entire time is spent in working out the problems of homemaking common to every woman who finds herself responsible for the management of a home and the care of children. (from the Forward) {HISTORY} Compiled for readers of Household Magazine, The Household Searchlight Recipe Book was one of the bestselling cookbooks of the 20th century. Produced and published in Topeka, Kansas from 1931