The Labour-saving House

About this eBook

Author

Peel, C. S., Mrs., 1868-1934

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Cindy Horton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

TX: Technology: Home economics

Subject

Home economics -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

47694

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47694

Release Date

December 17, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE LABOUR-SAVING HOUSE
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.CHAPTER I
5. 5.CHAPTER II — I — The Ignorant Employer. — No Chance for the Incompetent Servant. — Wanted! a New Race of Mistresses. — Domestic Training for all Girls. — Domestic Training will improve the Physique of the Coming Generation. — II — Menial Work. — Too many Governesses, Secretaries, and Companions in Normal Times. — Service is not a Genteel Profession! — Domestic Training Colleges. — What the Servant Dislikes. — To Popularise Domestic Service. — III
6. 6.CHAPTER III — I — The House that Jack Built. — Women Architects. — A Hot and Cold Water Service. — II — Save a Third of the Work in the House. — III — Kitchens and Offices. — A Service-room. — Furniture and Decoration. — A Clever Idea for a Bedroom and Dressing-room Bath. — IV
7. 7.CHAPTER IV — I — Basement Houses. — A Typical Labour-Making House. — A Labour-Making House Converted. — II — Nurse and Nursery. — A Second Suggestion for a Labour-Saving House. — III
8. 8.CHAPTER V — I — Household Duties. — Labour Making.—A House-Hunting Experience. — How we manage with One Servant in our Labour-Saving House. — II
9. 9.CHAPTER VI — I — A Five Bedroom and Three Sitting-room London House. — A Labour-Saving Country House. — II — A Labour-Saving Flat. — A Three Sitting-room, Hall, and Six Bedroom Suburban House. — III — A Labour-Saving House in a Provincial Town. — IV
10. 10.CHAPTER VII — I — Cooking in Advance.—An Interesting Letter. — II — The Late-Dinner Bogey. — A Letter from a Professional Woman who does her own Housework. — About Washing Up.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — I — Counting the Cost. — The Coke Furnace. — How to Light a Coke Furnace. — Some Figures. — The Use of Gas. — Good Advice. — Gas for Water Heating. — Gas for Lighting. — Gas Fires. — Gas Cookers. — II — The Cost of Cooking by Gas. — Utensils for Gas Cookers. — To Clean a Gas Stove. — The Destruction of Rubbish. — Warming the Kitchen. — Slot Meters.
12. 12.CHAPTER IX — "The Poor Man's Light." — Basement Rate and Checking of Waste. — When Putting in Electric Light. — To Avoid Waste of Current. — Makes of Lamp. — Electric Fires. — The Electric House. — In the Kitchen. — Simplicity. — The Saving of Meat. — The Cost of Current. — Labour-Saving and Comfort-Giving Appliances.
13. 13.A FINAL WORD
14. 14.INDEX

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