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