Domestic Affairs · Stores
Running out of the one thing you cannot run out of is not absent-mindedness. It is a missing threshold, and the threshold is one line of arithmetic.
By Iris Petty
The Kitchen Desk
Recipes are written in units the store does not sell. Here is what to do with the difference.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs
The scald when someone flushes is not a quirk of old pipes. It is an unregulated pressure split, and it has a standard part number.
By M. Plumb
The Parlour
A reading list rather than an argument. Eight filings from the register that between them predict most of the rest, and the secondary literature the register was built from — including the scholarship on three real prosecutions, where a household paper is likeliest to go wrong.
By Constance Tally
From the Editor's Desk
We are a manual with a masthead. Everything in these pages is real, testable, and faintly insulting in how obvious it turns out to be.
By The Editor
The Parlour
A reading list rather than an argument. Eight filings from the register that between them predict most of the rest, and the secondary literature the register was built from — including the books that would catch it out.
By Constance Tally
Domestic Affairs
Linen bedding spans a twelvefold price range for one fiber. We priced the whole bed three ways, did the per-night arithmetic, and checked what the money actually buys.
By Hollis Carver
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
Our staff illustrator has prepared two versions of today's scene. Seven small details have been changed. Can you find them all?
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The Sections
What the household owns, cleans, stocks, repairs, and shares its premises with.
Food, cooking, and provisioning meals that continue tomorrow.
What the household reads and watches, listed rather than reviewed, and kept here all year: the registers, the tens and the family files.
The puzzles page, and the strip. Sincerely presented. Quietly impossible.
Notes on the edition, and notices from the paper.
