A new system of practical domestic economy.

Date:
1828
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    These Estimates embrace a range of Incomes and Expenditures from One Guinea per week, to 5000/. a year and upwards; and, though the first of them are adapted to very low Incomes, yet we trust that no apology will be deemed necessary for their introduction; but, on the contrary, we submit them as peculiarly applicable to the cir- cumstances of the present times, when the depressed state of our commerce and manufactures—the de- terioration of our landed and funded property, and the depreciated value of money, are severely felt by many who formerly lived in a comparative state of affluence, and to whom, as well as to others, the deliberative aid of the Economist may be no less serviceable than the benign precepts of the Moral Philosopher, or the salutary efforts of the humane Philanthropist. Our successful endeavours to collect facts, and to obtain correct information and corroborating proofs from persons of experience in the various walks of domestic life, afford us a 'well-founded hope that these Estimates will, on trial, be found deserving of confidence; and on account of their general utility, will recommend themselves, not only to our more opulent readers, but to young beginners of every class—to those of limited for- tunes—to such as may deem it prudent to retrench, and particularly, to that numerous and valuable class of society who depend on their own indus- trious and economical efforts alone, for the comfort, advancement, independence, and respectability of themselves and their families. We have uniformly made all our calculations for a family of five persons; namely, a man and his wife, and three children. This we have done, not only because it is an average number for a family, exclusive of servants, but principally, be-