Women household employees -- England -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
This piece of advice cannot be too well remembered. It is needed by almost all young girls on their first entering service, and great is the annoyance thus caused to their employers. Every girl who wishes to live in a gentleman’s family must learn, sooner or later, to keep gua...
This piece of advice cannot be too well remembered. It is needed by almost all young girls on their first entering service, and great is the annoyance thus caused to their emplo...
2. CHAPTER II.I have had several servants who had not been in place before, and in every instance have had much trouble in making them observe this rule. Every young person will say “Sir” or...
3. CHAPTER III.You must never run up and down stairs, unless, perhaps, you can trip _down_ very lightly; but no one can run _up_ lightly enough. However lightly you may go down, it should neve...
4. CHAPTER IV.In giving directions for waiting at table, I shall describe the kind of dinner at which you are likely to assist. It will be of no use to tell you how to wait at a stately dinne...
5. CHAPTER V.In opening the door to a double knock, or ring of the visitors’ bell, be very careful that you are neat. If an only servant, you should ask your mistress to let you have a littl...
6. CHAPTER VI.Nothing makes so favourable an impression on a stranger as a neat, clean appearance; and justly so, because we judge that the girl who keeps her own hands and clothes clean, wil...