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 362
ou have put over the sofa, piano, etc., carefully, soas not to let the dust scatter about, and the rest will be easily finished. If it is a bedroom you wish to sweep, get it ready in much the sameway—pinning up window and bed curtains, tucking up valances se-curely ; and having removed and neatly… … 3i6 The Economical Housewife. It is far easier, and a much quicker process, to get everything in readiness thus forthe broom, than to move things out of your way as you come to them. It is fareasier to sweep a room thoroughly than to half sweep it. If you mean half-sweep-ing it, so many things…
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