This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...also the most suitable for servants' rooms; and with regard to servants' bed-rooms generally, they ought, although the articles may be common, to have the same conveniences as are used in the other bed-rooms of the house. With a small chest of drawers to serve as a dressing-table, and a wash-stand in her bed-room, many ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...also the most suitable for servants' rooms; and with regard to servants' bed-rooms generally, they ought, although the articles may be common, to have the same conveniences as are used in the other bed-rooms of the house. With a small chest of drawers to serve as a dressing-table, and a wash-stand in her bed-room, many a servant would be clean and tidy in her person and habits who otherwise would be careless of dirt and a sloven. The remarks we have made apply alike to all classes of society; to the lowly as well as the lofty. The hard-working cottager may learn how to improve and refine his humble home, as well as those in more wealthy circumstances. A love of the orderly and beautiful is not confmed to any one class; it may be acquired by all. An American author says, "A labourer, having secured a neat home and a wholesome table, should ask nothing more for the senses; but should consecrate his leisure, and what may be spared of his earnings, to the culture of himself and his family, to the best books, to the best teaching, to pleasant and profitable intercourse, to sympathy, and the offices of humanity, and to the enjoyment of the beautiful in nature and art." He is not to strive to be a mere imitator of rich people, but to set himself with a true and diligent spirit to make the best of such opportunities as fall in his way. In the house, in the garden, in daily duty or deportment, there is always something which may be be amended; and nowhere can endeavours after improvement be so worthily bestowed, or so richly rewarded, as at home. CHAPTER XVI. DBAPEBIES, CITBTAINS, AND BLINDS. Tne windows of a house sometimes reveal the character of the occupants in a way not to be misunderstood. Where they are dirty, filled with cracked panes, or disfigure...
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