-- apartments, 11 -- bedrooms, 151 -- clothes of, 159 -- encouraging them to walk and work in the garden, 159 -- feelings of new, 154 -- giving them good books to read, 159 -- harassing them, 13 -- pretty furniture for, 158 -- wasteful, 21 Sets of bedroom furniture, price of, 119 Settees (bamboo), Liberty’s, for the hall, 45 Sewing for girls, 197 Sheets, bed, 114, 115 Shelves for morning-room, 69 -- recesses for, 4 Sheraton furniture, 8 Shoolbred, 19 Shoolbred’s curtains, 93 Shop specialties, 38 Shopping, judicious, 39 Short blinds in bedrooms, 133 Side lanterns, 99 Sideboards, 8, 54 Sink, 13 -- regular flushing of, 14 Sinks, disinfecting, 14 Sitting-room and workroom for servants, 11 Sketches, Mrs. McClelland’s, 46 Slamming doors, 176 Sleeping with window open, 123 Slop-pails, 127, 128 Slovenly manners, 86 Small girls, 185 -- house, price of furnishing, 227 -- infant, bed for, 172 Smuts and blacks, 2 Soap, 127 Sofa-ottomans for spare rooms, 147 Sofas, 74, 82, 112 -- covering for, 71 -- Maple’s, 71 -- nursery, 168 -- striped curtains for, 71 -- substitute for, 110 Soles, boiled, 215 -- fried, 212 Soup from bones and vegetables, 28 Soups, excellent, 17 Spare glass and china, 30 -- room beds, 143 -- -- floor, 150 -- -- furniture, 142, 148 -- -- -- cost of, 143 -- -- readiness for occupation, 145 Spring mattress best for beds, 113, 114 Squabbles about money, 29 Square black cupboards, receptacles for music, 87 -- ottoman for piano, 87 Stained floors, 96 Stair carpets, 44 Staircases, 40 Stamped velveteen, 84 Stephens, address of, 227 Stores, 19, 20 Straight backed chairs, Smee’s, 62 Strange nurse, 171 Strode, address of, 227 Strode’s iron lamps, 102 Suburban clay, 3 Suburbs of London, 3 Sugar, 10 -- price of, 20 Summer babies, 189 Sunday in the schoolroom, 198 Sunday’s supper, 28 Sundries, 23 Sunless rooms, 7 Sunshine, first necessity of, 5 Sutherland table for drawing-room, 89 Swiss ‘mull’ muslin, cost of, 92 Table drawers, bedroom, 121 Tablecloths, 53, 54, 106 Tables, Chippendale design, 90 -- rickety, 83 Tapestry, drawing-room, 83 -- imitation, 73 -- tablecloth, 107 -- toilet covers, 119 Tea after dinner odious, 25 -- cost of, 20 -- in the schoolroom, 199 Tea cloth, five o’clock, 90 Tea-table in drawing-room, 89 Tea-things in morning-room, 72 Teetotallers, 25 Temporary ‘help’ for cook, 155 Tennis, 198 -- parties, afternoon, 210 Terra-cotta chintz for bedroom doors, Burnett’s, 106 -- paper, 106 Third room to sit in, 6 Tiled hearth, 5, 6, 67 Toasted cheese, 215 Tobacco, 59, 60, 61, 69, 72 Toilet covers, 106, 119 -- drawers, 121 -- ‘tidies’ to be avoided, 120 Tooth-brushes, 127, 223 Tooth water-glasses, 127 Treatment of servants, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159 Treloar, 43, 46 Treloar’s matting, 10 Trübner & Co., 72 Tumblers, 30 Turbot, half a, 213 Turkey carpets, 39 -- small, 214 Turret puddings, 219 Umbrella stands, 44