Painted suites of furniture, 142 Painting, 37 -- spare rooms, 142 Palm-leaved baskets for soiled linen, 121 Panelled drawing-room, 80 Panes, of glass, tiny, 113 Pantry, housemaid’s, 29 Paper for day nursery, Pither’s, 166 -- stand, 85 Papering, 37 Pears in jelly, 214 Penge, 3 Persian and Turkey carpets, 2 Personal expenses, wife’s, 20 Petty tyrannies, 206 Pheasant, boiled, 216 -- roasted, 219 Photographs for bedrooms, where to buy, 132 -- -- nursery, 177 Piano back, draping, 87 -- chair, 87 -- drapery for back, 86, 87 Piano, drawing-room, 86 -- front, 87 -- grand, 87 -- stool unendurable, 87 Picture rail, Maple’s, 58 -- teaching for children, 167 Pictures for bedrooms, 132 -- hooks for, 80 -- in schoolroom, 193 Pigeons, stuffed, 212 Pinafores, 200 Pincushions, 119 Pither, address of, 38 Pither’s papers, 58, 82, 109 -- printed linen, 77, 95 Plain cook, wages of, 210 Plantation coffee, 34 Plants and flowers for rooms, 90 Plates, 30 Plum pudding, 216 Plumber, &c., 120 Pokerette, 85 ‘Portable property,’ servants’, 152 Pretence of wealth, 22 Pretty room for each servant, 152 Prince Albert’s pudding, 214 Printed muslin, Liberty’s, 107 Professional decorator, 1 Ptarmigan, 215 Purchasing furniture, 2 Putting the feet on chairs, 129 Queen Anne cretonne (terra cotta), 151 -- -- table, 75, 84 -- -- tables, Oetzmann’s, 75 Quilts, cretonne covering for, 114 -- eider-down, 114 -- Francis’s, 116 Rabbits, buying them, 28 Reading in bed, 188, 189 Rebecca jars, 73 -- -- Elliot’s, 73 Reception-rooms, the regulation, 3, 360 Recipes for menus, 202 Rents less out of London, 2 Rest, necessity of complete, 169 Returning from school, 202 Ribs of beef, 27 Rice pudding, 28 Rider Haggard, 197 Rolled ribs of beef, 212 Roman sheeting for curtains, 94 Room for children, heating properly, 170 Rooms, appropriation of, 5 Round tables, 52 Rugs, good, 82 -- in front of fires, danger from, 85 Rush _v._ bamboo table, 89 Russian diapers, 185 -- embroideries, 150 Rylands’ stain for floors, 97 Saddle of mutton, small, 220 Salmon, 220 Salt-cellars, 35 -- Doulton’s, 35 Salviati glass, 210 -- ware, 31 Sanitary papers for children’s schoolroom, 193 Sanitas in saucers, 14 Satin chairs, 140 Saucepans, 16 -- cleaning them, 10 -- number of, 15 -- Whiteley’s, 16 School training for boys, 205 Schoolboys, dealing with, 203-205 Schoolmaster, orthodox, 205 Schoolroom ceiling, 193, 194 -- dresses, 200 -- Indian matting for, 192 -- Kidderminster carpet for, 192 -- maid, 199 -- papering walls of, 193 -- position of, in house, 199 -- tables and chairs, 194 Schoolrooms, 32 Scinde rugs, 46, 96 -- -- price of, 98 Screens, 4 -- in bedrooms, 112 Scullery, 10 -- ceiling, 12 -- walls, 12 Second-hand carriages, 228 -- -- where sold, 228 Selfishness of parents, 205 Separate beds for servants, 152 Serge curtains, 107 Serges, Burnett’s, 84 -- Colbourne & Co.’s, 93 Servants, 4, 33, 34