The servant's companion : comprising the most perfect, easy and expeditious methods of getting through their work; rules for setting out tables and sideboards; directions for conducting large and small parties: with an appendix, containing a great variety of useful recipes and tables.

Date:
1832
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Credit: The servant's companion : comprising the most perfect, easy and expeditious methods of getting through their work; rules for setting out tables and sideboards; directions for conducting large and small parties: with an appendix, containing a great variety of useful recipes and tables. 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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    a little salt of lemons on the part, and dip a bit of cloth in hot water, with which you must rub the part. Should a white mark still remain, you must rub it out with a bit of cork. Should the tables require washing', rub them over with a spong-e, dipped in warm beer, and dry them quickly with a towel. When tables are thus ready for the polish, if you use oil, take a bit of flannel, dipped in the oil, with which you must rub the table all over; then apply another flannel cloth as quickly as possible ; after that use a third, and lastly, finish with a fine linen cloth : it will be requisite to keep these cloths for this purpose. Wax may be used in the same manner, but not with the same cloths. Tables that are continually used, if care- fully kept, will not require to be polished oftener than once a-week, if oil is used ; but will require to be frequently done, if wax is used. BRUSHING THE CLOTHES, Should they be dusty, you must first put them on a wooden horse, and beat out the dust with a small cane, taking care not to hit too hard, lest you should hole the cloth ; when they are quite free of dust, lay the coat in full length on the table, with the collar of the coat toward the left hand, with the brush in the right; brush the back of the collar