INDEX

Advantages, some financial, 63 Advice, useful, 149 Appliances, household, 49 labour-saving, 185-186 simplicity of labour-saving, 180 Architects, reasons for women, 31 Arrangements, advantages of labour-saving, 70 Basement, general description of, 65 house, disadvantages of, 54-55 Bath, 45 Bedroom, 45 Bills, gas, coke, coal, 146 Coke, economy of, 144 Colleges, need of training, 20 Companies, Electrical Supply, 183 Cook, wages of, 120 Cookers, gas, 83 good idea for gas, 154 Cooker, size of, 155 Cooking, advantages of advanced, 127 economy of electrical, 182 Cost, counting the, 141, 145 Current, electric, cost of, 182 how to avoid waste of, 175 Decoration, 44 Dinner bogey, how to abolish the, 133 Domestic premises, 41, 43 Domestic problem, solving of, 25 Domestic service, advantages and disadvantages of, 19 Domestic training, advantages of, 13-14 for all girls, 11 national importance of, 12 Dressing-room, clever idea for, 45 Electric house, description of, 178 Electric light, fitting and arranging of, 174 Electricity, economy of, 171 cooking by, 134 Employer, ignorance of, 8 Entertaining, 137 Equipment, personal, 138 Family arrangements, 93 Fare, planning of bills of, 159 Fires, advantage of electric, 153 various makes of electric, 178 Flat, description of, 77-78 general arrangement of, 100 labour-saving, 99 Fuel, economy of, 147 Furnace, feeding of, 94 lighting of, 143 Furniture, 44 Gas, cost of cooking by, 160 use of, 148 Geysers, 151 Governesses, secretaries, companions, 18 Grill, management of, 162 Heating, water, 150 Home, the ideal, 37 House, labour-saving, 66 condition of the modern, 53 country, 95-97 furnishing of, 69 heating and lighting of, 46 how to reduce work of, 36 inconvenience of the modern, 29 suggestions for rebuilding, 30 Houses, labour-saving method of heating, 142 Kitchen, electrically fitted, 179 warming of, 165 Labour-making house, condition of, 76 conversion of, 57 description of, 56 some experiences of, 75 work of, 73-74 Labour-saving house, arrangement of, 89-91 convenience of, 110 description of, 88 domestic arrangements of, 79-80 economy of, 115 London, 87 menu of, 113 provincial, 108 reasons for, 3-4 suggestion for, 64 the ideal, 35 Labour-saving ideas, test of, 107 Lamp, makes of, 176-177 Lights, rate of basement, 172 checking of waste of, 173 Lighting, various means of, 152 Look-ahead plan, advantage of, 130 Meals, arrangement of, 114 Meat, saving of, 181 Menu, 121-124 Meters, slot, 166-169 Mistresses, new race wanted, 10 Nurse and Nursery, 62 Ordering, method of, 125 Oven, temperature of, 161 Restaurant, the electrical, 184 Rooms, arrangement of, 109 Rubbish, destruction of, 165 Servants, 9 shortage of, 7 their dislikes, 21-22 Service, cost of, 141 Service room, 42 Shopping, 126 Soups, 128 Stove, cleaning of, 164 Suburban house, description of, 101 furniture and fittings of, 102-103 Sweets, 129 Table, useful advice for, 49 Time, division of, 114 saving of, 119 Utensils, cleaning, 135 gas-cooking, 163 Waste, checking of, 173 Water service, 32 Water system, question of hot, 58 Work, dislike of menial, 17 organization of, 92-93 Worker, how to obtain best results, 26

THE QUESTION OF THE MOMENT

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Transcriber's Notes

Original inconsistencies in chapter titles between the Table of Contents and the first pages of each chapter have been retained. Likewise, the titles on the List of Illustrations and the illustrations themselves appear here just as they did in the original text, including Plate 44's labeling of "Gas Oven" in the LOI and as "Electric Oven" in its caption.

Minor punctuation errors fixed on pages 45 and 162. Punctuation on Plates 4, 5, 6, 16, 20, 22, 34, 39, 40, 41, 42, 42a, 44 was made consistent with the other Plates. Variable use of the words fire-place, fireplace, Croutons, and Croûtons was retained. Other variations in hyphenated words were retained only when they seemed to be used for emphasis or when part of a quoted letter. The following changes were made for consistency or due to typographical error:

Page 31, "house-work" changed to "housework." (...neither do they have to do housework...)

Page 79, "talboys" changed to "tallboys." (...tallboys in a shocking state of ill-usage.)

Page 121, "fourquarter" changed to "forequarter ." (...a forequarter of lamb has been in the house...)

Page 134, "House-Work" changed to "Housework." (A Letter from a Professional Woman who does her own Housework.)

Plate 15, "WASH-STAND" changed to "WASHSTAND." (GAS-HEATED TOWEL RAIL AND FIXED WASHSTAND)

Plate 32, "ELECTRC" changed to "ELECTRIC." (AN ELECTRIC KITCHEN IN A CITY INSTITUTION.)