-- 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