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THE LABOUR-SAVING HOUSE
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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A FINE OLD RAEBURN MANTEL-PIECE AND FIRE-PLACE FITTED WITH A MODERN "DOG" GRATE AND GAS FIRE AND ALSO WITH GAS "CANDLE" STANDARDS
THE LABOUR-SAVING HOUSE
BY MRS. C. S. PEEL
LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXVIII
SECOND EDITION
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE ANCHOR PRESS LTD. TIPTREE ESSEX
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Some portion of this book appeared in the form of articles in The Queen and The Evening Standard. My thanks are due to the Editors of those papers for permission to republish them.
Dorothy C. Peel.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| i. | Why do we need Labour-Saving Houses? | 3 |
| ii. | Labour-Saving Houses and the Servant Problem | 7 |
| iii. | The Labour-Saving House as it might be | 29 |
| iv. | The Labour-Saving House as it can be | 53 |
| v. | The Work of a Labour-Making House, and the Work of a Labour-Saving House | 73 |
| vi. | Other People's Experiences of Labour-Saving Homes | 87 |
| vii. | Other People's Experiences of Labour-Saving Homes (continued) | 119 |
| viii. | Coal, Coke, and Gas: how to use them to the best advantage | 141 |
| ix. | The Electric House. Cooking, Heating, Cleaning and Lighting by Electricity | 171 |
| A Final Word | 187 | |
| Index | 189 | |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| NO. | |||
| 1. | Gas Heater | Frontispiece | |
| 2. | Gas Heater | PAGE | 8 |
| 3. | Gas Heater | " | 9 |
| 4. | Gas Heater | " | |