Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing operation to be thoroughly carried out from inside the room. Which again, by a natural association of ideas, brings me to the excellent bath apparatus of Mr. Henry Conolly, by which you may indulge in a hot or cold bath, a shower, a douche or two, sprays and crinolines of various kinds, and a sort of little geyser, upon which you may make your final exit after the manner of our old friend Kiihleborn, either successively or in what combination you please, by just turning one or more of the neat little knobs ranged up the side like the stops of an organ. Then Messrs. Jeffrey & Co., of Islington, will enable you, if you are wise enough to wish it, to wash your wall-papers. Their “ Hygienic ” paper- hangings are really capital inventions, costing only a penny a yard more in their washable than in their non-washable condition, and lasting of course an indefinite number of times as long. Indeed they require nothing but a sponge full of cold water to come out every spring almost as clean and bright as when new. Messrs. Woollams, too, have introduced washable papers into their stock, and have, for the benefit of those who like them, given attention to the preparation of the most brilliant tints of green, without arsenic. There are most artistic designs in their exhibit at South Kensington, and others that would make you wink again. But you might breakfast and dine upon them—if your taste led that way, and your diges-