Common Sense for Housemaids

Chapter 3: FOOTNOTES

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A practical manual offers clear, step-by-step guidance for household servants on cleaning, maintaining, and managing domestic tasks. It covers specific techniques for caring for metals, wood, marble, painted and papered walls, carpets, windows, lamps and fires, and china and silver; routines for daily chamber and kitchen work; laundering, starching, and polishing; and advice on economy, nursing the sick, and careful attendance. Instructions emphasize regular small tasks, proper tools and materials, and orderly habits to preserve furnishings and ensure efficient, hygienic household management.

FOOTNOTES

[1] Loose white wrappers kept for that purpose, should be thrown over the working dress, while the beds are being made.

[2] To cover the floor with brown paper before the carpet is put down is a great preservative.

[3] Spots of grease on the carpet should not be washed out. Fullers’ earth, in fine powder should be rubbed in dry and left for some days before it is brushed off.

[4] Attention should be given to the manner in which the China ornaments are placed before they are taken up to be dusted, so as to replace them exactly in the same position.

[5] Eccles. xii. 14.

[6] Colossians iii. 22, 23. Titus ii. 9.

LONDON:
G. J. PALMER, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.