Social pressure--Agreeable evening parties--Troubles of party-giving-- Musical parties--Flowers on a balcony--Window-gardening--Crowded drawing-rooms--The library or study--Gas, candles, and candlesticks-- Original outlay on furniture--Different styles of furniture--Raffaelesque decorations--Carpets, curtains, and chair coverings--Portières--Window blinds--Rugs--Care required in buying furniture--Ornaments--Dusting-- Chiffoniers useless--Portfolio stand--Mirrors 127 BED AND DRESSING ROOMS. Ventilation--Window curtains and blinds--Bedsteads--Spring mattresses --Towels--Danger of fire at the toilet--Mantelpiece--Pictures and frames--Superfluous necessaries--Taine's criticisms--Aids to reading in bed--Service of the bath--Improvements in washstands--Arranging the rooms--Attics made beautiful--Sick-rooms--Neatness--Disinfectants-- Chlorine gas--Condy's solution--Filters--Invalid chairs--Generous efforts of the medical profession to improve the national health 155 THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS. To what age should boys' and girls' education be alike?--Accomplishments fruitlessly taught--Nursery and school-room government--Helplessness --Introduction to society--The convent system--Unhappy results-- Scientific education--Geometrical illustration--Religion--Professional life for women--Home training--Varied knowledge--Companionship of a mother--Experience--Kindness--Truth 182 SUNDAY. Children's Sundays made wearisome--Sunday precious to workers--Moral workers--Moral vices--Our gifts--Misuse of them--Necessary work on Sunday--Diminished by management--Sunday prevents us living too fast--The rest must be earned--Sunday repairs the human machine 202 HOUSEHOLD ORGANIZATION. THE DIFFICULTY. Impossibility of getting good servants--Over-civilization--Labour has been made hideous--Sleeping partnership--Wealth exempt from this difficulty--Refinement of the professional class--Credit--Phase of insecurity and scarcity--Sweet are the uses of adversity--English people do not fear work--Servants too readily changed--Wilfulness of servants--Upper servants are easily obtained--Servants feel the pressure of the times--Ornamental servants costly luxuries--Two questions--Work must be efficiently done--Woman's work--Misuse of time--We keep servants to wait upon each other--Idleness--Pleasure made a toil. For a long time past we, the middle-classes of England, have felt a great household perplexity, one which has been a daily burden to us all. This is the difficulty, almost impossibility, of getting good servants.