Cheese fondus, 214 -- soufflés, 217 -- straws, 219 Cheval glass, 122 Chickens, 20, 28 Child of the period, the, 162 Children and inherited tendencies, 191 -- amusing themselves, 178 -- authors for, 197 -- collecting pretty things around them, 179 -- destructive and untidy, 177 -- diet for, 195 -- grown-up, 206, 207 -- helping their elders, 175 -- hour for rising, 176 -- hours for studying, 195, 196 -- importance of quiet and regularity for, 164 -- -- -- sunshine for, 192 -- punishing, 196 -- spoiling them, 161 -- teaching them self-control, 175 -- the home they were born in, 208 Children’s breakfast, 195 -- dress, 200 -- education, 195 Chimneys, 5 China, Crown, Derby, and Worcester, 33 -- gilt on, 32 China, Minton’s ivy-patterned, 32 -- Oriental, 34 -- real, 33 Chippendale chairs, 51 -- furniture, 8 Chocolate cream, 217 Choosing rooms, 7 Cigars in drawing-room, 86 Clean brush and comb in toilet drawer, 122 Clear soup, 213 Clock, necessity for, in spare rooms, 147, 149 Clocks, Oetzmann’s, 64 Coachman’s livery, cost of, 228 Coats hanging in rooms, 85 Coffee, 34 -- cost of, 20 Colbourne, Messrs, address of, 62 College pudding, 220 Colours for bedrooms, 149 Combination dressing-table and washing-stand, Watts’s, 136 Common sense, 6 ‘Confound baby!’, 124 Conservatory, tiny, 2 Cook, overburdened, 9 -- thoughtful, 17, 18 Cooks, ‘experienced,’ 18 Cost of dinner, 217, 219 Cottage piano, 86 Counterpanes, 116 Cradles, 173, 174 Credit, nothing so dear as, 20 Cretonne, 47, 82 -- curtain, 69, 71, 94 -- on mantelpiece, 77 Croquettes of chickens, 218 Cruet-stands, 34 Cupboards forgotten, 4 -- small, 106, 107 Curried kidneys, 216 Curtain, bedroom, 134 -- rods, bedroom, 131 -- -- Maple’s, 41 Curtains, 4, 5, 82 -- _v._ screens, 112 Cutlets _à la réforme_, 213 -- of cod, 216 Dado, Collison and Lock’s, 82 -- in dining-room, 58 -- in drawing-room, 78 -- leather paper for, 56 Dado rail, Maple’s, 56 -- Treloar’s, 46 Damasks, Stephens’ ‘Sicilienne,’ 93 Day nursery, 164 Deal dressing-tables, 118 Decorating drawing-room, 82 ‘Demon builder,’ the, 160 Dessert service, Hewett’s, 32 -- -- Mortlock’s, 33 ‘Digesters,’ 17 Dining-room, 5, 6, 7, 8, 27, 49-68 -- mantelpiece, 64, 65, 66 -- walls, 56 Dining-rooms, orthodox, 7 Dinner, complete cost of, 213 -- service, best, 29 -- sets, Mortlock’s, 31 -- waggons, 54 Disagreeable details, 9 Dishes, 30 Disinfectants, 14 Doctors’ bills, 23, 25, 201 Domestic problems, 206 ‘Do nothing in a hurry,’ 9 Door front, 47, 48 -- -- brass stand behind, 42 -- -- double curtains for, 41, 42 Double tray tables, 84 Dr. Chevasse, 181 -- -- books by, for young mothers, 181 Drain disinfectant, 14 Drainage, 4 Drains, 13, 14 -- time for seeing to, 14 Draped alcove, Collison & Lock’s design, 112 Drawing-room, 5, 60, 67, 71, 76, 77 -- blue wooden mantelpiece for, 80 -- carpet, Colbourne’s, 81 -- -- Maple’s, 80 -- -- Shoolbred’s, 80