Inside Out Library

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 matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)

Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 1103

An illustration 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 matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated, 1879, leaf 1103
Frost, inhis small work on Scientific Swimming, pre-sents the following practical rules for sportiveswimming : To spin with ease, the personshould be somewhat buoyant ; the breastmust be well inflated, and the attitude may bethat of sitting with the feet crossed. It iseffected by embracing the… … TREADIMG WATER. Our Leisure Hours. 1049 action causes a circular or spinning movement, which increases invelocity as it is continued. Of all the playful ways of swimming he everknew, the author considers this to be the most curious. He has seenboys sportively rolling along the stream, and conceived…

Home Economics · Interior decoration

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures 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 matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated

More like this