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

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[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.

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    meet with, as footmen who have lived in good families, usually look forward to ultimately taking situations as butlers, and, once having taken situa- tions as single-handed servants, find a difficulty in obtaining situations as butlers, and the wages of a single-handed man-servant are not as high as are those of a butler; while the place is a far harder one, and requires no little method, industry, and briskness to perform the many duties required of him in a satisfactory manner. His duties include the following: to rise early, so that before his breakfast he may have completed the rougher work of the day, such as getting in coals and wood, cleaning the knives and boots, etc. ; his duty is to valet the gentlemen of the family, to brush their clothes, to carry them up and put them out for dressing, to carry up water for the gentlemen’s baths, shaving-water, etc.; to lay the breakfast for the family; to be dressed to carry in the breakfast, although not expected to wait at that meal; to take away the breakfast things, to wash and replace in the pantry cupboard; to trim and clean the lamps; to clean the plate; to lay the luncheon, to wait at luncheon when required to do so, to clear away the luncheon, and wash the glass and silver used; to attend to the sitting-room fires ; to be in readiness to answer the drawing-room bell; to answer the door in the afternoon, when not out with the carriage; to go