This is a collection of helpful hints and tips gathered from publications printed between 1890 and 1920. It contains similar tips to those you would find in an original Mrs Beeton or other household manual of the period.
You will find assorted recipes for food and cleaning products, tips on child rearing, making simple toys, cleaning and general care of the home and family. Some of these are genuinely useful while others are simply hilarious from a modern perspective.
It seems that a large number of the homemade beauty aids of the period would have contained cocaine, for example, everything from face powder to tooth whitening cream seems to call for a little of the stuff. Edwardian ladies must have been high as kites most of the time if these are to be believed. It is a very well presented and interesting little book to sit alongside your Mrs Beeton and Household Hints.
