Handbook of housekeeping for small incomes / by Florence Stacpoole.

  • Stacpoole, Florence
Date:
[1897?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Handbook of housekeeping for small incomes / by Florence Stacpoole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the rent of a good house is worse than folly. Children need air and sunshine if they are to be healthy, and it is criminal to stunt their development at the most critical period for lack of these things that could be had if their parents were sensible enough to take a roomy house in some unfashionable suburb, where no doubt the carnages of the nobility are few, but where the rooms are large and the air pure. Finally, an important desideratum in choosing a house for a professional or business man is that it should not be far from his chambers or office. In thes® ° quick trains, trams, etc., it is not necessary that the house should be within a walk of the place of business, but it ought to be within very easy distance of the conveyance to the place of business. . . ... . One often hears people say that it is a good thing have the exercise of a long walk every morning to catch the ’bus or train : that is so no doubt as far as the wal - goes, but one can always have this by going a round, but fo be obliged to take it in severe weather, or when, from some of those accidents which will happen in even the best regulated families, breakfast is late, or some other delay occurs, and to have then to hurry, perhaps uphill, to catch the train, may entail serious consequences. Sudden deaths in railway stations and trains, as a consequence of violent exertion in the effort to catch a train, are not uncommon, and indigestion brought on by hurrying after meals, colds, bronchitis, rheumatism, etc., caught by sitting in a draughty carriage whilst perspiring after a rapid run, are very common indeed.' These are things to remember before enter ng upon an agreement for a house situated at a consideiab e distance from the ’bus, train, or tram which is to take a man to the scene of his day’s work.
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