The Book of Household Management, Reading 2

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Sharon Handy

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Let's drift off to a new entry from one of our most popular volumes: The Book of Household Management, by Mrs. Isabella Beeton. Dinner parties, calling cards, and kid gloves have never been so relaxing.

All Boring Books readings are taken from works in the public domain. If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading, catch us on Twitter @boringbookspod or on our Patreon at www.patreon.com/boringbookspod, where you can also support us (and earn yourself a very calming shoutout on the show). Enjoy!

Music: "Watching Whales on the Moon" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY-NC. Visit http://leerosevere.bandcamp.com for this and other tracks.

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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime.
0:06.0	I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs
0:11.0	to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once. So lie back,
0:17.5	adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath and off we go. This evening we're dipping back into a book that has proved
0:28.2	very popular on this podcast. It's The Book of Household Management by Mrs Isabella Beaton, published originally by S.O. Beaton in 24 monthly parts, 1859 to 1861,
0:46.6	first published in a bound edition, 1861.
0:52.4	Let's begin where we left off in our last reading in chapter 1, the mistress.
1:00.0	Having thus indicated some of the more general duties of the mistress, relative to the moral government of her household,
1:08.0	we will now give a few specific instructions on matters having a more practical relation to the position which she is supposed
1:15.2	to occupy in the eye of the world.
1:18.4	To do this the more clearly, we will begin with her earliest duties and take her completely through the occupations of a day.
1:27.0	Having risen early as we have already advised, and having given due attention to the bath and made a careful toilet,
1:37.8	it will be well at once to see that the children have received their proper ablutions and are in every way clean and comfortable.
1:47.7	The first meal of the day, breakfast, will then be served, at which all the family should be punctually present unless illness or other circumstances prevent.
2:00.0	After breakfast is over, it will be well for the mistress to make a round of the kitchen and other offices to see that all are in order and that the morning's work has been properly performed by the various domestics.
2:14.0	The orders for the day should then be given,
2:17.0	and any questions which the domestics desire to ask,
2:21.0	respecting their several departments should be answered, and any special articles
2:26.2	they may require handed to them from the store closet.
2:30.7	In those establishments where there is a housekeeper, it will not be so necessary for the
2:36.2	mistress personally to perform the above named duties.
2:41.8	After this general superintendents of her servants, the mistress, if a mother of a young family
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