The servants practical guide : a handbook of duties and rules / By the author of "Manners and tone of good society".

Date:
[1880]
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Credit: The servants practical guide : a handbook of duties and rules / By the author of "Manners and tone of good society". Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    This work is especially written for the use of masters and mistresses, to enable them to instruct their servants as to the correct method in which every duty should be performed; and to give this instruction without hesitation or doubt as to how things should bo done, with but little or no trouble to themselves. The method of waiting at table, and every branch of domestic service, in force in the Households of the upper classes of society, both on large and small scales, from the stately mansion to the bijou resi- dence, has been fully gone into and explained. Thus every class of master and mistress will find the present volume applicable to their servants, and to their surroundings, and may confidently and unhesitatingly follow its lead. The technical and manual portions of this work have been gathered from experienced and competent servants, whose long service in families of position is sufficient guarantee as to the class of information supplied by them; and it is owing to this valuable assistance that the writer is enabled to place before the public the most comprehensive details of domestic service.