-- -- Smee’s, 81 -- -- Treloar’s, 80, 82 -- colour for, 78, 80, 82 -- curtains, 93 -- essentially a best room, 86 -- mistress’s corner, 84 -- tea-table for, 89 Dress and personal appearance of daughters, 206 -- cost of, for man and wife, 229 Dress, wife’s, 20 Dressing jackets invaluable, 188 -- gown, 188 -- room, 128 -- table and washing-stand combined, 136 -- tables, price of, 118 -- -- should not be dust-traps, 119 -- -- Smee’s, 118 Drugget, hard-wearing, Pither’s, 46 Dulwich, 3 Duplex burners, 99 Dustbin, 4, 10, 14 -- not a necessity, 18 Dusters, 36 Dust-sheets for furniture, 36 Dyeing, Pullar’s, 41 Eclairs, 214 Edwin’s dressing room, 135 -- -- substantial dado for, 138 Eider-down quilts, 114 Eggs, 30 Electric light, 98 ‘Eligible residences,’ 3 Elliot, Mr., 73 -- -- address of, 45 Enamel paints, 62 Enfield, 3 ‘Excelsior’ mattresses for spare rooms, 143 -- spring mattress, 114, 143 Exhibiting baby, danger of, 175 Fashion and folly, 4 Feather beds, 114 Ferns and immortelles for toilet-table, 123 Field & Co.’s candle shields, 111 Finchley, 3 Finger-glasses, 31 Fire-keeping, recipe for, 67 Fireplaces, 5, 68 -- misplaced, 4 Fires, benefit from, in winter and summer, 124 -- in bedrooms, benefit of, 124 First babies, 162, 175 -- -- washing them, 189 Fish, 20 -- contracts for, 28 Fish Market, Central, 19 -- markets, 19 Fittings, 37 Five o’clock tea, 89 Flannel pilches, 185 Flock papers, 2 Floor (bedroom), staining all over, 116 Floral paper for spare room, 150 -- -- Maple’s, 150 Flour, 20 Flowers in bedrooms, 123 Foot-baths, 127 Footstools for dining-room, 68 -- -- morning-room, Whiteley’s and Shoolbred’s, 75 Forest Hill, 3 Formal visiting, 88 Fowl, 20 French pancakes, 213 -- parents, 21 -- windows and curtains, 91 Fresh air, 2 -- flowers in sick-room, 189 Friezes, 80 -- Mrs. McClelland’s, 77 Frilling for sheets, Cash’s, 115 Fruit, 20 Frying-pans, 16 Furnishing, schedule of cost of, 223, 224, 225, 226, 277 Furniture, fearful expense of, 171 Garden, small, 2 Gardening, 35 Garrard, Mrs. S. B. (beds, &c., for infants), 173 Garret, 229, 230 -- regular investigation of, 230 Gas, best for spare rooms, 148 -- effect of, on plants, 169 -- fittings, Strode’s, 227 -- in bedrooms, evil of, 101 -- -- rooms where there are children, necessity for, 101 -- -- sitting-rooms, 99 -- _v._ paraffine, 100 Gentlemen’s wardrobes, 135 German lamp screens, 100 Gilt legs to chairs, 8 Glass, 31 -- best, 29 Glass cloths, 32 Glasses and bottles, coloured, Douglas & Co.’s, 31, 32 Going off to school, 201, 202 Good hostess, 211 -- monthly nurses all the battle, 181, 182 -- servants, insuring them, 154 Gossip, spiteful, 198 Governess, 199 ‘Graining,’ a barbarism, 47, 48, 80 Grand piano, 87 -- -- made a decorative piece of furniture, 87 Grate, wasteful, 5 Grates, Barnard’s, 67 Green water, 13 Gridirons, 16 Grilled mushrooms, 220 Groceries, 19, 20