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 279
thesimple squire had often totake his portion of the in-vention under very adversecircumstances—on the bare^ earth, or the little less hardbenches of the waysideposada. But we at the pre-sent day have cause to begrateful not only for sleep,but for all appliances andmeans to boot, in theway of… … Artistic Homes. 235 Take, for instance, two such habits as the use of a soft pillow and theadoption of night garments.So little was, and is, the firstcomfort appreciated by some,that we find the ancient Egyp-tians employing a kind of pede-stal of hard wood, curved at itsupper surface to support…
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