-- 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