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.

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    to pour out the tea and coffee at a side-table, and it is then handed by the footman to the guests. When guests are not present, and the family arc breakfasting alone, the presence of the servants after the breakfast has been brought in is often dispensed with; indeed, oftener than not, it being a purely optional matter whether the servants remain in at- tendance during the whole of breakfast or not. Where only one servant is kept—whether man- servant or parlour-maid, he or she does not remain in the breakfast-room after breakfast has been brought in, the family waiting upon themselves. The mistress of the house pours out the tea and coffee and hands it to those at table, probably adding cream and sugar to it to save trouble, as in the family circle the small glass cream jugs and sugar basins are not in everyday use, but the table is laid in the same way in all other re- spects. Tea-trays are never used at breakfast, whether of silver or papier-mache, the tea-cups and saucers, and et ceteras being placed upon the table-cloth. The morning letters are generally placed upon a table in the breakfast-room, from whence visitors select their own letters. In some houses the butler hands each person their letters on a salver. It is either the foot- men’s or the footman’s duty to take away the break- fast and all appertaining to it; the viands arc carried into the kitchen, the china into the housekeeper’s room, or still-room, and the plate into the pantry, the