Opening of the book
Enquire Within
Upon Everything
[Illustration]
the great Victorian-era domestic standby
with hyperlinked index
"Whether You Wish to Model a Flower in Wax;
to Study the Rules of Etiquette;
to Serve a Relish for Breakfast or Supper;
to Plan a Dinner for a Large Party or a Small One; to Cure a Headache; to Make a Will; to Get Married; to Bury a Relative;
Whatever You May Wish to Do, Make, or to Enjoy,
Provided Your Desire has Relation to the Necessities of Domestic Life,
I Hope You will not Fail to 'Enquire Within.'"—Editor.
1894
Table of Contents
• Companion Works to Enquire Within
• By the Same Editor
• Editor's Preface
• Publisher's Preface
• Adulterations of Food, Tests for
• Beverages, Preparation of, and Receipts for
• Bird-Keeping, Bee-Keeping, and Poultry-Keeping
• Carving, Arrangements of the Dinner-Table, etc.
• Children, Rearing and Management of
• Choice of Food, Marketing, etc.
• Confectionery: Cakes, Jellies, Sweetmeats
• Commercial and Monetary Hints, Maxims
• Correct Speaking, Hints on Writing
• Decoration, Painting, Staining, Gilding etc.
• Destruction of Vermin, Noxious Animals
• Dress, Choice, Arrangement, and Care of
• Dyeing, Scouring, Cleaning, Laundry Operations
• Emergencies and Accidents, Drowning, Fire, etc.
• Etiquette, Forms and Ceremonies of
• Food of Various Kinds, When in Season
• Fancy Needlework
• Fuel, Lighting, etc., Economy and Management of
• Furniture, Selection and Arrangement of
• Gardening Operations Throughout the Year
• Household Carpentry, Mending, Repairing
• Indoor Games and Amusements
• Ladies' Employments: Leather-Work, Diaphanie etc.
• Legal Information and Advice
• Medical and Surgical Advice
• Minor Complaints, Cough, Cramp etc.
• Miscellaneous Preparations: Ink, Gum, Cement, etc.
• Outdoor Sports and Pastimes, Lawn Tennis
• Poisoning, Treatment in Cases of
• Preparation of Food, Cooking Operations
• Preserving and Pickling, Hints on
• Modelling, Preparing Botanical Specimens, etc.
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