We shall have no prentice hands to guide us, for no opinion is so expensive as that of the novice or the uninitiated, but the recognized. authorities in each department of household necessity will give us the benefit of their information and guide us by the counsel of their often tested advice, and thus sound principles of domestic economy and correct information upon household requirements, will enable us to detect the errors in ourselves and others, avoid the disappointments of failure, and secure in all our efforts the maximum advantages at the minimum cost of time and money. The Illustrations (without which no magazine of the present day is possible) will be of first-rate quality, and will be supplemented by frequent full-page plates in high class chromo-lithography. In every house there are divers rooms. There are kitchens, sittingrooms, dining-rooms, drawing-rooms, bed-rooms, and many others, which we have only to name to suggest almost innumerable requirements which may be fittingly dealt with under the respective titles that each department bears, and thus we shall take as the divisions of our household magazine, the natural divisions of the house itself, and, as far as it is possible in dealing with each department, leave no requirement unsupplied. My House and how I Built it, will tell the story of the house itself; discuss the advantages of divers localities; explain the modus operandi of securing land, making contracts with architects and builders, and will give designs of cottage, house and villa architecture, and especial care will be taken to have correct and clear information as to sanitary appliances. [W. BRYDON, Esq.] My House and how I Furnished it, will give descriptions with diagrams of the most approved furniture for the scullery, kitchen, sitting-rooms, diningrooms, drawing-room, library, nursery, and bed-rooms, bath and dressing rooms. My House and how I Decorated it, will treat of wall papers, encaustic tiles, stained glass, gasfittings, brasses and bronzes, ornaments, carpets, pictures, &c. &c. &c. [W. BRYDON, Esq.] The Kitchen will be the heading under which we shall deal with domestic servants, their duties, wages, &c., kitcheners, stoves, and general cooking utensils, and the art of cooking in all its branches. [J. C. BUCKMASTER and others.] The Dining-room will afford us an opportunity of treating of foods, the art of table-laying and decoration, serving meals, carving, &c. Under this heading, too, we shall give a bill of fare for every day in the year, besides numerous recipes for tasty dishes, and impromptu fare for unexpected guests. [J. C. BUCKMASTER and others.] The Drawing-room will be the title of a series of papers on etiquette, entertaining company, at homes, five o'clock teas, parties, juveniles' dinner, musical, dancing, and Christmas, wedding breakfasts, &c. &c. &c. |