INDEX.

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 Babies, 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 Cabinet 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 Dado, 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 Eclairs, 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 Fashion 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 Garden, 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 Hall, 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 Ideal 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 Jack 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 Kidderminster 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 Ladies’ 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 Macaroni 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 Neck 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 Occasional 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 Painted 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 Queen Anne cretonne (terra cotta), 151 — — table, 75, 84 — — tables, Oetzmann’s, 75 Quilts, cretonne covering for, 114 — eider-down, 114 — Francis’s, 116 Rabbits, 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 Saddle 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 Table 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 Umbrella stands, 44 — — Maple’s, 43 Umbrellas, wet, 43 Unhealthiness of gas, 168, 169 Unpunctuality, effects of, 149 Upholsters, 39 Upholstering chairs, 51 Varnished wall-paper, 11 Vases, 77 Vegetable dishes, 31 Visiting, ethics of, 141 Wall-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 Yorkshire pudding, 28 Young couples, 9 — — decoration of house for, 9 — — management of house for, 9 — nurses a mistake, 18, 164