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teachers, viz. that of a handbook on the general 

 principles on which the processes of cookery 

 and the sanitary management of a home depend, 

 it was first printed in 1876 and ran through 

 ten editions, the last being published in 1905. 

 It might have gone into others, but by this 

 time Tegetmeier was getting too old to trouble 

 about revising it. It is of interest just now to 

 note that these two books deal with the subject 

 of labourers' cottages, and give designs and 

 plans for a pair of model workmen's dwellings, 

 showing the smallest accommodation that is 

 compatible with health. In the former book the 

 cost of a pair of well-contrived and economical 

 cottages for agricultural labourers is given at 

 the low sum of £300. They were designed, and 

 the plans, etc. prepared by Tegetmeier' s life-long 

 friend and fellow Savage, the late Thomas Cutler, 

 architect of many w r ell-known public buildings 

 in the Metropolis and the Provinces. 



Tegetmeier' s marriage with the pet teacher 

 of the Infants' Department, without the leave of 

 the authorities and against the rules of the 

 institution, gave great offence to the Home and 

 Colonial School Society, and both the favourite 

 mistress and the clever young lecturer were 

 dismissed from their employ. His lectures, how- 

 ever, were missed ; and after eating a certain 

 amount of humble-pie, the useful young scientist 

 was reinstated, and further, as we have seen, 



