The Labour-saving House

Often, however, it is not for us to choose which we will employ. We must needs use gas if electric current is not available, and we must count the cost of both before deciding w...

Some five-and-twenty years ago, when sixpence a unit was considered a very low charge for electricity, Colonel Crompton, R.E., C.B., claimed that before many years electricity w...

"It so happened that some months ago we lost a little money, and we also came to the conclusion that we had been for some time spending more than we should have spent. Our house...

For many a year I have thought that the average good domesticated woman wasted far too much of her own time and that of her servants in housekeeping, while, on the other hand, m...

This, in many cases, is the reply of the registry office to-day, and as time goes on the shortage of domestic workers will become more and more acute. Of highly-paid upper serva...

The other day I was re-reading that delightful story of a simple soul, _Kipps_, and was struck anew by the truth of the difficulties which beset Artie and Ann when they went hou...

Thus, if you cannot have an ideal house, have a home which is as nearly ideal as possible, so let us consider the house as we generally find it, and see what can be done to impr...

The following is a list of duties, and we must add to it the answering of bells, tidying up after untidy people, any personal services required (in many cases this is considerab...

NO. 1. Gas Heater _Frontispiece_ 2. Gas Heater PAGE 8 3. Gas Heater " 9 4. Gas Heater " 15 5. Gas Heater " 18 6. Gas Cooker " 31 7. Gas Heating " 31 8. Gas Heating " 33 9. Gas H...

2.--There is a scarcity of labour. Girls of the class from which domestic servants were drawn formerly now dislike service. The would-be employer finds it difficult to obtain se...

_Counting the Cost--The Cost of Service as well as of Material--Coke Furnaces--Radiators--How to Light and Stoke a Coke Furnace--Rubbish Burning--Some Figures--Two Examples of H...

_The House that Jack builds without the help of Jane--A Hot and Cold Water Service--What happens when you do away with Coal--How to Save a Third of your Household Work--Light an...

_The Ignorant Employer--The Incompetent Servant--Wanted! a New Race of Mistresses--Domestic Training for all Girls--Its Value to the Nation--"Menial" Work--The Surplus of Govern...

_The Management and Work of a Five Bedroom, Three Sitting-room London House--A Labour-Saving Country House--A Labour-Saving Flat--One Visiting Maid instead of Two Servants--A Su...

_Electricity as the Poor Man's Light--Basement Rate and Checking of Waste--When Putting in Electric Light--To Avoid Waste of Current--Makes of Lamps--Electric Fires--The Electri...