It is far better to do these things at once. If we close the room in which our beloved have passed away, and think time will enable us to face the task with more boldness, we shall find we are grievously mistaken; the longer we put it off the worse it will be, and we shall not forget them any quicker because their own possessions have been given to those who can benefit by them. Each thing in life should always be in use; hoarding of any kind in a garret is useless, and wicked too. And now I have come to the last hint, I think, I have to give my young householders. Of course, the subject is practically inexhaustible, and enlarges itself for one every day we live; but I have given you all my own experience up to the present date, and if it should save one young couple the mistakes I made in my first start in life, or give them the help I should have been so glad of myself twenty years ago, I shall feel I have not spent my time in vain; while let no one despise the homely subject, for it is our first duty in life to try and make our homes so bright and beautiful and pleasant that they may shed radiance on all in their immediate neighbourhood, setting the example that is worth so very much precept, and be like good deeds, ‘shining like a candle in this naughty world.’ Let love, beauty, carefulness, and economy rule your lives, O young householders! and then you will find that life is the most interesting thing possible, and is always, to the very last day of it, well worth the trouble of living. INDEX. 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