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Excerpt from The Complete Housekeeper
Whatever the boards - whether hard or soft, Wide or narrow, it is crucial to have them lie even. An edge standing the sixteenth of an inch above its fellows may occasion falls and stumbles innumerable. A creaking board, a bird in. The ¿oor, as country folk say, is little Short Of a nervous torment. A nail-head projecting ever SO Slightly is a positive danger. So, too, is a splintered crack. SO most Of all is a dry-rotted board, the best trap yet devised to catch and breed all sorts Of moulds and mildews.
Hence those who needs must put up with hired kitch ens may well look to these things: Whether the kitchen ¿oor is firmly laid? Are the cracks in it conspicuous by absence? Does the base-board fit snugly down all round? Are there anywhere cracks, crannies, and crevices, as be hind the stove, under the sink, or about the door-jambs, in which mice can lurk, vermin harbour, or such small deer as thimbles, laundry-wax, bread crusts and crumbs, even an occasional potato-paring, can engulf themselves past finding.
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