Excerpt from Beeton's Housewife's Treasury of Domestic Information: Comprising Complete and Practical Instructions on the House and Its Furniture, Artistic Decoration, Economy, Toilet, Children, Etiquette, Domestic and Fancy Needlework, Dressmaking and Millinery, and All Other Household MattersThe present work aims at making home the abode of comfort, elegance, and happiness and'it will be found to contain countless directions on matters about which every one is eager to know some thing, but which are usually left to the expensive teaching of individual experience.We have, first of all, gone fully into a description of the House and its Furniture, and under this head have tried to convey clear and reliable information on all points connected with buying, building, renting, and furnishing.The subject of Furnishing with Taste is then dealt with, and the reader is shown the secret of artistic effect, and how to make the home an abode of beauty.We have next proceeded to discuss all such matters as relate to the daily life of the inmates, pointing out the various duties of servants. And giving many a valuable hint as to the art of superintendence on the part of the mistress.Children, and what to do with them, form the subjects of our next section, and in it young people at all stages of growth are treated with that prominence which their importance demands. The subject of the Toilet receives such exhaustive treatment as will, we believe, merit general approval, and we have next dealt with Etiquette, in relation to every possible situation in social life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.