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J. E. Panton. From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders
From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM KITCHEN TO GARRET
CHAPTER I. CHOOSING A HOUSE
CHAPTER II. THE KITCHEN ARRANGEMENTS
CHAPTER III. MEALS AND MONEY
CHAPTER IV. THE HOUSEMAID’S CLOSET, AND GLASS AND CHINA
CHAPTER V. FIRST SHOPPING
CHAPTER VI. THE HALL
CHAPTER VII. THE DINING-ROOM
CHAPTER VIII. THE MORNING-ROOM
CHAPTER IX. THE DRAWING-ROOM
CHAPTER X. CURTAINS, CARPETS, AND LIGHTING
CHAPTER XI. BEDROOMS
CHAPTER XII. DRESSING-ROOM
CHAPTER XIII. SPARE ROOMS
CHAPTER XIV. THE SERVANTS’ ROOMS
CHAPTER XV. THE NURSERIES
CHAPTER XVI. IN RETIREMENT
CHAPTER XVII. THE SCHOOLROOM
CHAPTER XVIII. BOYS AND GIRLS
CHAPTER XIX. ENTERTAINING ONE’S FRIENDS
CHAPTER XX. THE SUMMING-UP
INDEX
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J. E. Panton
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Do you recollect, I wonder, the orthodox dining-rooms of twenty-five years ago?—the heavy, thick curtains of red or green cloth or moreen damask; the tremendous mahogany sideboard, generally with a cellarette underneath it, which, I recollect, made an admirable tomb in which to bury one’s dolls or obnoxious books, generally triumphantly taken from the schoolroom; the chairs that required two people to lift them; the carpet that seemed immovable, and that was too heavy to be shaken more than once a year; and the woolly-bear hearthrug that always smelt of dust, and that was a receptacle for all sorts of cinders, toy-bricks, leaden soldiers, and bones dragged in and buried there by a delinquent dog or cat? Why, the mere shaking of that rug once a week resulted in the discovery of all sorts of treasures that had been lost, and the dust that came out was enough to choke the neighbourhood, and doubtless would have done so had the other inhabitants not all been engaged with their own. Ah! if you do not all of you remember the dining-room of the past, I do; but never without a shudder, or a wonder how we managed to live in such a dark and dusty atmosphere, where work, reading, drawing, and writing all had to be hustled out of sight and out of the way of the parlour-maid, who came to ‘lay the cloth,’ and renew the foul odours, which had only just been exorcised, which breakfast had left behind it to poison the morning with. I should think that domestic furniture was at its very lowest depths of despair then; but that is thirty years ago, or perhaps forty, and nothing turned the tide for quite twenty years!
In the beginning of those evil days the graceful furniture of Chippendale and Sheraton was pushed away and consigned to attics, or sold cheaply at country auctions to fit up inn parlours or rooms behind shops; and the heavy ‘handsome’ furniture of mahogany and damask bore down upon us, and made us for a time the most depressed of people, heavy with our ugly furnishings, and the mock of all nations that had better taste and lighter hearts than we were possessed of.
