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 653
ail to con-vince the world that the wearers are gentlemen and ladies. His nailsare in mourning, says some one of a man in a fine coat, and the latter,if it were a masterpiece of Poole himself, would not counteract theimpression produced by those questionable finger-nails. In the sameway, if a woman… … womans hands. Not even hard work can make some hands coarse. We had occasion notlong ago to notice the hands of a lady whom adverse circumstances had obligedfor several years to be her own servant, even to the scrubbing and dusting of hertwo rooms, laying and lighting her own fire, and—worse than…
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