From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders

by J. E. Panton

[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Y]

Absurd arrangement of our houses, [171], [172]
Account book, leaf from an, [24]
Accounts, [23-25]
A. F. D. Society, Miss Hinton’s, [231]
Afternoon teas, [209], [210]
Airing bedroom, [115], [116]
— beds, [116]
— nursery, [170]
‘Allowancing’ servants, [154]
American cloth, [77]
Angelina’s bedroom, [103]
— private duster, [125]
— wardrobe, [121]
Antimacassars, [74]
— Stephens’, [227]
— Turkish, [84]
A place for everything, [129]
Apple shape, [220]
Arm-chair, [62-64]
Arm-chairs, Colbourne’s, [62]
— tapestry for covering, Maple’s, [62]
Arsenic in wall-paper, [69]
Art and the bitter lot of the poor, [7]
— colours, [7]
— furniture, [7]
Artistic corners, [84]
Aspinall’s paint, [68], [76]
[B]abies, baths for, [189]
— clothing, [185], [186]
— cow’s milk for, [163]
— garments, [185]
— special theories about, [162]
Babies, their berceaunettes, [170], [171], [173], [174]
Baby-talk, stupid, [172]
Back of piano exposed, remedy for, [86], [87]
Baker Street vases, [77]
Bamboo brackets (Liberty’s, and at Baker Street Bazaar), [75]
Basket chairs, [74]
Baskets for soiled linen, palm-leaved, [121]
Bath and bath blankets, [138], [139]
Beaconsfield chairs, [75], [132]
Beaufort ware, [126]
Beautiful things, making them common, [7]
Bed airing, [115]
— gowns, [188]
— making, [103]
— pocket, [116]
Bedroom brackets, [120]
— carpet, [103], [104]
— chairs, [131]
— cupboards, [106-107]
— curtains, [107]
— door fittings, [107]
— match-boxes, [116]
— paper, [46], [105], [106], [107], [108]
— — colour for, [104], [106]
— screen, [112]
— ware, [126]
— windows, muslin for, [92]
— — too many, [4]
Bedrooms, [4], [5]
— colour for, [103]
— papering ceilings of, [107]
Beds for servants, 152
Bedside, table near, [116]
Bedstead, brass or iron, the best, [113]
— wooden, [112]
Beef, cold, [28]
— olives, [220]
Beer, [25]
Beginning housekeeping, [25], [26]
Bellows for dining-room, [68]
Benson’s lamps, [102]
Berceaunettes, [173], [174]
‘Berry’ paper, [46]
Bills, regular payment of, [20], [22], [23]
Biscuit-box, [34]
Black-lead, [85]
Blankets, Witney, [114]
Blinds and their rollers, doing away with, [91], [95]
Blue and white paper for bachelor’s spare room, Chappel & Payne’s, [151]
Boarding-school plan a mistake, [204]
Bohemian ware, [31]
Boiled rabbit, [28]
Bolton sheeting, [188]
Bookcase, bedroom, [133]
— velveteen cover, [73]
Bookcases, revolving American, [72], [73]
Books for spare rooms, [147], [148]
Boudoir, spare room made into, [142]
Bow-windowed villas, window-seats in, [59], [92]
Bow-windows, curtains for, [92], [93]
Box ottomans for bedrooms, [106], [110]
— — — — Maple’s, [106]
— — — hats and bonnets, [130]
— pincushions, [119]
— room, [142]
Brackets, [133]
Brandy the one spirituous liquor that should be kept in a house, [72]
Brass brush for dining-room, [68]
— door handles best, [80]
— fire-irons, [85]
— fittings for bedroom doors, Maple’s [106], [107]
— headed nails, [80]
— kettle, [72]
Brass pots, [88]
— pots for palms, Hampton’s, [88]
Bread, [19]
— brown, [27]
— knives, Mappin & Webb’s, [35]
— price of, [20]
— stands, [35]
— wasted, [16]
Bread-pan with cover, [16]
Breakfast, [26], [27], [34]
— table, [32], [35]
— — gloomy, [5]
— — punctuality, [14], [15]
Brewers, [25]
Bromley, [3]
Brooks, Shirley, [27]
Brougham, cost of, [228]
Brushes and combs, [122], [123], [223]
Brushing under beds, [116]
Buckland, Frank, [19]
Burnett, address of, [227]
Burnett’s ‘Marguerite’ cretonne curtains, [34]
— serges, [84]
Bush Hill Park, [3]
Butchers, [25]
Butter, cost of, [20]
Buyers of bottles, rags, &c., [17]
[C]abinet pudding, [216]
Cabinets, [73], [74]
— made by Smee, [74]
‘Calls,’ doing away with, [89]
Canadian custom respecting carpets, [96], [97]
Candle shields, [101], [120]
Candlesticks, Liberty’s, [45], [64]
Carbolic acid, [13]
Careless housemaid, [85]
— servants, [29]
Carlyle, Mr. and Mrs., [7]
Carpentry, amateur, [4], [110]
Carpet designs, Mr. Morris’s, [97]
— for drawing-room, [80], [81], [82]
— royal blue, Colbourne’s, [97]
Carpets, [4], [5]
— hints about, [96], [97]
— Oriental, [98]
— Wilton, [98]
Carriage, cost of keeping a, [227], [228], [229]
— rugs, rollers, &c., cost of, 228
Carrot soup, [216]
Carson’s ‘detergent,’ [49], [109]
Cauliflower au gratin, [213]
Centre-piece, [34], [35]
Chairs, bedroom, [131]
— dining-room, [5], [51]
— embellished by carvings, [51]
— Harding Bros.’, [52]
— Liberty’s, [85]
— New Zealand pine, for dining-room, [51]
— (rush-seated, black-framed) for dining-room, [52]
— Smee’s, [52]
Chambers, large, airy, [160]
Chappel & Payne, address of, [151]
Charming chair for drawing-room (rush-seated), [85]
Checked muslin for bedroom windows, [92]
Cheerful surroundings, [7]
Cheese fondus, [214]
— soufflés, [217]
— straws, [219]
Cheval glass, [122]
Chickens, [20], [28]
Child of the period, the, [162]
Children and inherited tendencies, [191]
— amusing themselves, [178]
— authors for, [197]
— collecting pretty things around them, [179]
— destructive and untidy, [177]
— diet for, [195]
— grown-up, [206], [207]
— helping their elders, [175]
— hour for rising, [176]
— hours for studying, [195], [196]
— importance of quiet and regularity for, [164]
— — — sunshine for, [192]
— punishing, [196]
— spoiling them, [161]
— teaching them self-control, [175]
— the home they were born in, [208]
Children’s breakfast, [195]
— dress, [200]
— education, [195]
Chimneys, [5]
China, Crown, Derby, and Worcester, [33]
— gilt on, [32]
China, Minton’s ivy-patterned, [32]
— Oriental, [34]
— real, [33]
Chippendale chairs, [51]
— furniture, [8]
Chocolate cream, [217]
Choosing rooms, [7]
Cigars in drawing-room, [86]
Clean brush and comb in toilet drawer, [122]
Clear soup, [213]
Clock, necessity for, in spare rooms, [147], [149]
Clocks, Oetzmann’s, [64]
Coachman’s livery, cost of, [228]
Coats hanging in rooms, [85]
Coffee, [34]
— cost of, [20]
Colbourne, Messrs, address of, [62]
College pudding, [220]
Colours for bedrooms, [149]
Combination dressing-table and washing-stand, Watts’s, [136]
Common sense, [6]
‘Confound baby!’, [124]
Conservatory, tiny, [2]
Cook, overburdened, [9]
— thoughtful, [17], [18]
Cooks, ‘experienced,’ [18]
Cost of dinner, [217], [219]
Cottage piano, [86]
Counterpanes, [116]
Cradles, [173], [174]
Credit, nothing so dear as, [20]
Cretonne, [47], [82]
— curtain, [69], [71], [94]
— on mantelpiece, [77]
Croquettes of chickens, [218]
Cruet-stands, [34]
Cupboards forgotten, [4]
— small, [106], [107]
Curried kidneys, [216]
Curtain, bedroom, [134]
— rods, bedroom, [131]
— — Maple’s, [41]
Curtains, [4], [5], [82]
— v. screens, [112]
Cutlets à la réforme, [213]
— of cod, [216]
[D]ado, Collison and Lock’s, [82]
— in dining-room, [58]
— in drawing-room, [78]
— leather paper for, 56
Dado rail, Maple’s, [56]
— Treloar’s, [46]
Damasks, Stephens’ ‘Sicilienne,’ [93]
Day nursery, [164]
Deal dressing-tables, [118]
Decorating drawing-room, [82]
‘Demon builder,’ the, [160]
Dessert service, Hewett’s, [32]
— — Mortlock’s, [33]
‘Digesters,’ [17]
Dining-room, [5], [6], [7], [8], [27], [49-68]
— mantelpiece, [64], [65], [66]
— walls, [56]
Dining-rooms, orthodox, [7]
Dinner, complete cost of, [213]
— service, best, [29]
— sets, Mortlock’s, [31]
— waggons, [54]
Disagreeable details, [9]
Dishes, [30]
Disinfectants, [14]
Doctors’ bills, [23], [25], [201]
Domestic problems, [206]
‘Do nothing in a hurry,’ [9]
Door front, [47], [48]
— — brass stand behind, [42]
— — double curtains for, [41], [42]
Double tray tables, [84]
Dr. Chevasse, [181]
— — books by, for young mothers, [181]
Drain disinfectant, [14]
Drainage, [4]
Drains, [13], [14]
— time for seeing to, [14]
Draped alcove, Collison & Lock’s design, [112]
Drawing-room, [5], [60], [67], [71], [76], [77]
— blue wooden mantelpiece for, [80]
— carpet, Colbourne’s, [81]
— — Maple’s, [80]
— — Shoolbred’s, [80]
— — Smee’s, [81]
— — Treloar’s, [80], [82]
— colour for, [78], [80], [82]
— curtains, [93]
— essentially a best room, [86]
— mistress’s corner, [84]
— tea-table for, [89]
Dress and personal appearance of daughters, [206]
— cost of, for man and wife, [229]
Dress, wife’s, [20]
Dressing jackets invaluable, [188]
— gown, [188]
— room, [128]
— table and washing-stand combined, [136]
— tables, price of, [118]
— — should not be dust-traps, [119]
— — Smee’s, [118]
Drugget, hard-wearing, Pither’s, [46]
Dulwich, [3]
Duplex burners, [99]
Dustbin, [4], [10], [14]
— not a necessity, [18]
Dusters, [36]
Dust-sheets for furniture, [36]
Dyeing, Pullar’s, [41]
[E]clairs, [214]
Edwin’s dressing room, [135]
— — substantial dado for, [138]
Eider-down quilts, [114]
Eggs, [30]
Electric light, [98]
‘Eligible residences,’ [3]
Elliot, Mr., [73]
— — address of, [45]
Enamel paints, [62]
Enfield, [3]
‘Excelsior’ mattresses for spare rooms, [143]
— spring mattress, [114], [143]
Exhibiting baby, danger of, [175]
[F]ashion and folly, [4]
Feather beds, [114]
Ferns and immortelles for toilet-table, [123]
Field & Co.’s candle shields, [111]
Finchley, [3]
Finger-glasses, [31]
Fire-keeping, recipe for, [67]
Fireplaces, [5], [68]
— misplaced, [4]
Fires, benefit from, in winter and summer, [124]
— in bedrooms, benefit of, [124]
First babies, [162], [175]
— — washing them, [189]
Fish, [20]
— contracts for, 28
Fish Market, Central, [19]
— markets, [19]
Fittings, [37]
Five o’clock tea, [89]
Flannel pilches, [185]
Flock papers, [2]
Floor (bedroom), staining all over, [116]
Floral paper for spare room, [150]
— — Maple’s, [150]
Flour, [20]
Flowers in bedrooms, [123]
Foot-baths, [127]
Footstools for dining-room, [68]
— — morning-room, Whiteley’s and Shoolbred’s, [75]
Forest Hill, [3]
Formal visiting, [88]
Fowl, [20]
French pancakes, [213]
— parents, [21]
— windows and curtains, [91]
Fresh air, [2]
— flowers in sick-room, [189]
Friezes, [80]
— Mrs. McClelland’s, [77]
Frilling for sheets, Cash’s, [115]
Fruit, [20]
Frying-pans, [16]
Furnishing, schedule of cost of, [223], [224], [225], [226], [227]
Furniture, fearful expense of, [171]
[G]arden, small, [2]
Gardening, [35]
Garrard, Mrs. S. B. (beds, &c., for infants), [173]
Garret, [229], [230]
— regular investigation of, [230]
Gas, best for spare rooms, [148]
— effect of, on plants, [169]
— fittings, Strode’s, [227]
— in bedrooms, evil of, [101]
— — rooms where there are children, necessity for, [101]
— — sitting-rooms, [99]
— v. paraffine, [100]
Gentlemen’s wardrobes, [135]
German lamp screens, [100]
Gilt legs to chairs, [8]
Glass, [31]
— best, [29]
Glass cloths, [32]
Glasses and bottles, coloured, Douglas & Co.’s, [31], [32]
Going off to school, [201], [202]
Good hostess, [211]
— monthly nurses all the battle, [181], [182]
— servants, insuring them, [154]
Gossip, spiteful, [198]
Governess, [199]
‘Graining,’ a barbarism, [47], [48], [80]
Grand piano, [87]
— — made a decorative piece of furniture, [87]
Grate, wasteful, [5]
Grates, Barnard’s, [67]
Green water, [13]
Gridirons,

[16]
Grilled mushrooms, [220]
Groceries, [19], [20]
Grown-up daughters, [208]
— families, [207]
Guests, making them comfortable, [145]
Guipure lace for curtains, [91]
[H]all, [41]
— candlesticks, [45]
— ceilings papered, [47]
— flooring, [43]
— gas-lamps, [47]
— lighted from the sides, [99]
— — — — top, [99]
— oil lamp unsuited for, [89]
Halls, stone, [48]
Happy childhood, [196]
Harding Bros., address of, [52]
Hare soup, [214]
Harness for carriage, price of, [228]
Hassan and Co.’s chickens, [28]
Healthy children, [162]
Heavy mahogany, [2]
Hewett’s bazaar, [32]
— dessert services, [32]
Hoarding in garrets, [230]
— old clothes, [137]
Honest mechanic, prospect for an, [117]
Honeycomb quilts, [116]
Horse, price of, for carriage, [228]
Hot-water cans for bedrooms, [127]
— dishes, 35
House decoration and the landlord, [37]
— — Collison & Lock’s, [37]
— — Morris’s, [37]
— — Smee’s, [37]
— hunting, [4]
— inspection, preliminary, [5]
— rent, [19]
Household books, [21]
— economy, [20]
— servants, young girls as, [18]
Housekeeping bills, [154], [211]
Housemaid’s duties, [35]
— pantry, [29]
House-mother, life of, not appreciated, [183]
[I]deal and real nurseries, [161]
Indian matting for schoolroom floors, [192]
— tapestry, Liberty’s, [87]
Infant and nurse, [175]
Infants, knowingness of, [172]
Informal gatherings, [89]
Inherited tendencies, [201]
Ink-erasers for hand cleaning (Perry’s), [192]
Inkstands purchased at Baker Street Bazaar, [64]
Invalids, cooking for, [221], [222]
Inventions Exhibition, [99]
Iron brackets and lamps, [99]
[J]ack Tar suit, [200]
Jackets and trousers for boys, [200]
Japanese fan, [76], [77]
— — for fireside, [85]
— leather paper, [56], [58]
— — — for the hall, [46], [86]
— paper for wardrobe panels, [110]
— screen for piano, [87]
Joss-sticks, [189]
Judicious watchfulness regarding servants, [156]
Jugs and pots, Elliot’s, [45]
Jury of matrons, [172]
[K]idderminster squares, [80], [81]
Kilburn Orphanage, [230]
Kitchen arrangements, [9]
— capabilities of, [9]
Kitchen ceilings, annual white-washing of, [12]
— dado in, [11]
— dinner, [158]
— dismal, [11]
— grates skimped, [12]
— — smells from, [13]
— management, [10]
— passages, [11]
— position of, [10]
— staircase a cause of worry, [10]
— underground, [10]
— utensils, [15]
— wash-tub not needed for, [18]
Kitcheners, Steel & Garland’s, [12]
Koffee Kanns, Ashe’s, [34]
Kurd rugs, [46]
Kyrle Society, [7]
[L]adies’ chamber in retirement, [186], [187]
Lahore cretonne, [106]
Lamp brackets, [99]
— screens, German, [100]
— — selecting colour of, [101]
Lamps, beaten iron, [47], [99], [102]
— Benson’s, [102]
— brass, [111]
— china, [99]
— duplex, for nursery, [168]
— glass hanging, [99]
— Mortlock’s, [99]
— paraffine, Drew’s, [102], [116]
— Smee’s, [47]
— Strode’s, [47], [99], [102]
Landing, the, [4]
Landseer, Sir Edwin, [178]
Leases and structural repairs, [4]
Legs of mutton, [19]
— — — à la Bretonne, [218]
Lemon pudding, [28]
Liberty’s cretonnes, [78]
— sashes, [200]
— silk handkerchiefs, [41]
— — — for curtains, [94]
— tapestries, [83]
Lighting bedrooms, [120]
— of sitting-rooms, [98], [99]
Linen marking, [115]
— old-gold colour printed, Pither’s, [95]
Linoleum mat for dining-room, 68
London markets, [28]
— north side of, [3]
Lordship Lane, [3]
Low frocks and short sleeves for children, disappearance of, [170]
Luncheon, [27]
— hour (orthodox) for young wives, [76]
[M]acaroni cheese, [220]
Madras muslin, [71], [82], [92]
Mahogany sideboard, old, [8]
Making a bedroom pretty, [132]
Managing servants, [146]
Mantelpieces, cheap wooden, Shuffery’s, [67]
Maple, [30], [43]
Maple’s bedsteads, [113]
— box ottomans, [110]
— Golden Pine carpet, [82]
Marble mantelpiece, white, [5]
Marguerite cretonnes, Burnett’s, [94], [108]
Mats, [4], [5], [46]
Matting for dining-room, [96]
— price of, [96]
— sweeping in one way, [98]
— Treloar’s, [46]
Mattresses, cases for, [114]
Mayfair, tiny hovels in, [4]
McClelland, Mrs., [77]
Meal odours in rooms, [6]
Meals and money, [13]
Meat, ‘best English,’ often New Zealand, [212]
— New Zealand, [19]
— price of, [20]
Medical attendance, [25]
Menus, cost of, [211-221]
Meringues, [219]
Midday meal, [27]
Middle-class parents, [21]
Milk, [20], [25]
Milkmen, Londoners at the mercy of, [163]
Mince pies, [213]
Minton’s china, [32]
Monograms on cloths, [90]
Monthly nurse, [176]
Moreen curtains, [2]
— damask, [8]
Morning-room, books and magazines for, [71]
— chairs, [74], [75]
Morning-room decoration, [76]
— desk for, [70]
— embellishing door-panels of, [70]
— no gas in, [72]
— paper for, Smee’s, [96]
— sage-green paper for, [69]
— sofa, [71]
— stand for papers, [71]
— under care of housemaid, [77]
— work-table, [71]
Morocco, dull brown, [51]
Morris, Mr., [97]
Mortlock’s china, [31], [32], [33]
— — lamps, [99]
— ware, [126]
Mulligatawny soup, [218]
Music, receptacle for, [87]
Muslin curtains, [91], [92]
Muslins, Liberty’s, [45]
Mutton cutlets, [215]
Mysore chintz, Liberty’s, [45]
— muslin, [72]
[N]eck of mutton, [28]
Nevill’s hot-water bread, [27]
New babies, making ready for, [186]
— baby a profound nuisance, [182]
Night garments, [115]
— — embroidered case for, [115]
— nursery, [170]
— — management of fire in, [170]
Nurseries, [32]
— bright paper for, [165]
— cretonne, dado, and painted rail for, [165]
— gas in, [168], [169]
— good duplex lamp for, [168], [169]
— pictures on walls of, [177-179]
— position of, [161]
— strong guard for fires in, [168]
— two in a house, [160]
— v. spare rooms, [161]
Nursery a children’s kingdom, [176]
— blue and white paper for, [166]
— ceiling, [165]
— chair for each child in, [167], [168]
— choice of a, [160]
— cretonne cleaned with dry bread, 166
Nursery cupboards, [166], [167], [168]
— doors, [166]
— floor, [165]
— furnishing the walls of, [168]
— made out of worst bedroom, [161]
— sofa, [167]
— table, [167]
— walls, [165]
Nursing, [169]
[O]ccasional visitor, [140]
Oetzmann, [64]
Oilcloth, cheap, [11]
— for walls, [11]
— resembling old mosaic, [11]
Old London lamps, [99]
— night-dresses invaluable, [121]
Oriental carpets for dining-room, [96]
— — Smee’s, for drawing-room, [81]
— rugs and carpets, sweeping them one way, [98]
— — for hall, [46]
Our dead, [230], [231]
Ovens, cleansing, [13]
[P]ainted suites of furniture, [142]
Painting, [37]
— spare rooms, [142]
Palm-leaved baskets for soiled linen, [121]
Panelled drawing-room, [80]
Panes, of glass, tiny, [113]
Pantry, housemaid’s, [29]
Paper for day nursery, Pither’s, [166]
— stand, [85]
Papering, [37]
Pears in jelly, [214]
Penge, [3]
Persian and Turkey carpets, [2]
Personal expenses, wife’s, [20]
Petty tyrannies, [206]
Pheasant, boiled, [216]
— roasted, [219]
Photographs for bedrooms, where to buy, [132]
— — nursery, [177]
Piano back, draping, [87]
— chair, [87]
— drapery for back, [86], [87]
Piano, drawing-room, [86]
— front, [87]
— grand, [87]
— stool unendurable, [87]
Picture rail, Maple’s, [58]
— teaching for children, [167]
Pictures for bedrooms, [132]
— hooks for, [80]
— in schoolroom, [193]
Pigeons, stuffed, [212]
Pinafores, [200]
Pincushions, [119]
Pither, address of, [38]
Pither’s papers, [58], [82], [109]
— printed linen, [77], [95]
Plain cook, wages of, [210]
Plantation coffee, [34]
Plants and flowers for rooms, [90]
Plates, [30]
Plum pudding, [216]
Plumber, &c., [120]
Pokerette, [85]
‘Portable property,’ servants’, [152]
Pretence of wealth, [22]
Pretty room for each servant, [152]
Prince Albert’s pudding, [214]
Printed muslin, Liberty’s, [107]
Professional decorator, [1]
Ptarmigan, [215]
Purchasing furniture, [2]
Putting the feet on chairs, [129]
[Q]ueen Anne cretonne (terra cotta), [151]
— — table, [75], [84]
— — tables, Oetzmann’s, [75]
Quilts, cretonne covering for, [114]
— eider-down, [114]
— Francis’s, [116]
[R]abbits, buying them, [28]
Reading in bed, [188], [189]
Rebecca jars, [73]
— — Elliot’s, [73]
Reception-rooms, the regulation, [3], [141]
Recipes for menus, [202]
Rents less out of London, [2]
Rest, necessity of complete, [169]
Returning from school, [202]
Ribs of beef, 27
Rice pudding, [28]
Rider Haggard, [197]
Rolled ribs of beef, [212]
Roman sheeting for curtains, [94]
Room for children, heating properly, [170]
Rooms, appropriation of, [5]
Round tables, [52]
Rugs, good, [82]
— in front of fires, danger from, [85]
Rush v. bamboo table, [89]
Russian diapers, [185]
— embroideries, [150]
Rylands’ stain for floors, [97]
[S]addle of mutton, small, [220]
Salmon, [220]
Salt-cellars, [35]
— Doulton’s, [35]
Salviati glass, [210]
— ware, [31]
Sanitary papers for children’s schoolroom, [193]
Sanitas in saucers, [14]
Satin chairs, [140]
Saucepans, [16]
— cleaning them, [10]
— number of, [15]
— Whiteley’s, [16]
School training for boys, [205]
Schoolboys, dealing with, [203-205]
Schoolmaster, orthodox, [205]
Schoolroom ceiling, [193], [194]
— dresses, [200]
— Indian matting for, [192]
— Kidderminster carpet for, [192]
— maid, [199]
— papering walls of, [193]
— position of, in house, [199]
— tables and chairs, [194]
Schoolrooms, [32]
Scinde rugs, [46], [96]
— — price of, [98]
Screens, [4]
— in bedrooms, [112]
Scullery, [10]
— ceiling, [12]
— walls, [12]
Second-hand carriages, [228]
— — where sold, [228]
Selfishness of parents, [205]
Separate beds for servants, [152]
Serge curtains, [107]
Serges, Burnett’s, [84]
— Colbourne & Co.’s, [93]
Servants, [4], [33], [34]
— apartments, [11]
— bedrooms, [151]
— clothes of, [159]
— encouraging them to walk and work in the garden, [159]
— feelings of new, [154]
— giving them good books to read, [159]
— harassing them, [13]
— pretty furniture for, [158]
— wasteful, [21]
Sets of bedroom furniture, price of, [119]
Settees (bamboo), Liberty’s, for the hall, [45]
Sewing for girls, [197]
Sheets, bed, [114], [115]
Shelves for morning-room, [69]
— recesses for, [4]
Sheraton furniture, [8]
Shoolbred, [19]
Shoolbred’s curtains, [93]
Shop specialties, [38]
Shopping, judicious, [39]
Short blinds in bedrooms, [133]
Side lanterns, [99]
Sideboards, [8], [54]
Sink, [13]
— regular flushing of, [14]
Sinks, disinfecting, [14]
Sitting-room and workroom for servants, [11]
Sketches, Mrs. McClelland’s, [46]
Slamming doors, [176]
Sleeping with window open, [123]
Slop-pails, [127], [128]
Slovenly manners, [86]
Small girls, [185]
— house, price of furnishing, [227]
— infant, bed for, [172]
Smuts and blacks, [2]
Soap, [127]
Sofa-ottomans for spare rooms, [147]
Sofas, [74], [82], [112]
— covering for, [71]
— Maple’s, [71]
— nursery, [168]
— striped curtains for, [71]
— substitute for, 110
Soles, boiled, [215]
— fried, [212]
Soup from bones and vegetables, [28]
Soups, excellent, [17]
Spare glass and china, [30]
— room beds, [143]
— — floor, [150]
— — furniture, [142], [148]
— — — cost of, [143]
— — readiness for occupation, [145]
Spring mattress best for beds, [113], [114]
Squabbles about money, [29]
Square black cupboards, receptacles for music, [87]
— ottoman for piano, [87]
Stained floors, [96]
Stair carpets, [44]
Staircases, [40]
Stamped velveteen, [84]
Stephens, address of, [227]
Stores, [19], [20]
Straight backed chairs, Smee’s, [62]
Strange nurse, [171]
Strode, address of, [227]
Strode’s iron lamps, [102]
Suburban clay, [3]
Suburbs of London, [3]
Sugar, [10]
— price of, [20]
Summer babies, [189]
Sunday in the schoolroom, [198]
Sunday’s supper, [28]
Sundries, [23]

Sunless rooms, [7]
Sunshine, first necessity of, [5]
Sutherland table for drawing-room, [89]
Swiss ‘mull’ muslin, cost of, [92]
[T]able drawers, bedroom, [121]
Tablecloths, [53], [54], [106]
Tables, Chippendale design, [90]
— rickety, [83]
Tapestry, drawing-room, [83]
— imitation, [73]
— tablecloth, [107]
— toilet covers, [119]
Tea after dinner odious, [25]
— cost of, [20]
— in the schoolroom, [199]
Tea cloth, five o’clock, [90]
Tea-table in drawing-room, [89]
Tea-things in morning-room, [72]
Teetotallers, [25]
Temporary ‘help’ for cook, [155]
Tennis, [198]
— parties, afternoon, [210]
Terra-cotta chintz for bedroom doors, Burnett’s, [106]
— paper, [106]
Third room to sit in, [6]
Tiled hearth, [5], [6], [67]
Toasted cheese, [215]
Tobacco, [59], [60], [61], [69], [72]
Toilet covers, [106], [119]
— drawers, [121]
— ‘tidies’ to be avoided, [120]
Tooth-brushes, [127], [223]
Tooth water-glasses, [127]
Treatment of servants, [153], [154], [155], [156], [157], [159]
Treloar, [43], [46]
Treloar’s matting, [10]
Trübner & Co., [72]
Tumblers, [30]
Turbot, half a, [213]
Turkey carpets, [39]
— small, [214]
Turret puddings, [219]
[U]mbrella stands, [44]
— — Maple’s, [43]
Umbrellas, wet, [43]
Unhealthiness of gas, [168], [169]
Unpunctuality, effects of, [149]
Upholsters, [39]
Upholstering chairs, [51]
[V]arnished wall-paper, [11]
Vases, [77]
Vegetable dishes, [31]
Visiting, ethics of, [141]
[W]all-paper, [2]
Wall-papers, E. Pither’s, [38]
Wardrobe, Edwin’s dressing-room, [135], [136]
— making, amateur, [110]
Wardrobes, [4], [10], [109]
— Hampton’s, [109]
Washable papers, [11]
Washing brushes, [122]
— — Whiteley’s, [19]
— cost of, [20]
Washing stand, [124], [125]
Waste-paper bags, [70]
Water-bottles, [31]
Watts, Mr., address of, [136]
Wedding finery, excessive display of, [22]
White curtains, [134]
— soup, [212], [220]
Whiteley, [16], [19], [30]
Wicker chairs for drawing-room, [82]
Widgeon, [220]
Wild duck, [213]
Window-blinds, [4], [5]
Windows, [4], [5]
— cathedral glass top, [107]
— open at the top, [147]
Window wedges, [128]
Winter babies, [189]
Withers & Co., address of, [228]
Witney blankets, [114]
Women architects, [4]
Wooden bedsteads, [112], [113]
— mantelpieces, [66], [80]
Woollen tapestry, [52], [75]
Worrying the nurse to death, [176]
Writing-desk for the dining-room, [62], [63]
[Y]orkshire pudding, [28]
Young couples, [9]
— — decoration of house for, [9]
— — management of house for, [9]
— nurses a mistake, [18], [164]

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