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Title: Mrs. Seely's cook book; a manual of French and American cookery, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and duties and many other details of household management
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Seely, Lida, 1854-1928
Subjects: Cookery, American Domestics cbk
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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HOUSE-HOLD OF TWO SERVANTS Duties of Cook and Laundress, Chambermaid and Waitress Cook and laundress, chambermaid and waitress, if only twoservants are kept, should work together, taking each othersplace alternate on days or nights out. Their duties are statedin foregoing pages. If there are three maids and the third bea laundress, she should take the cleaning the last of the weekand relieve the waitress one evening in the week, and alsohelp wash up the cooks night off. Duties of General House Servant in House or Apartment If only one servant is kept, and she is engaged to do theentire general work, she does not as a rule expect much timeoff. In many cases she has every second Sunday, and oneevening in the week, and occasionally two or three hours ofan afternoon for shopping. In some cases the mistress washesthe dishes and makes the beds, especially on washing and iron-ing days, and on her Sunday afternoon and evening off. Butno two households are alike. Rules differ very much. 32 .J
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CHAPTER VDONTS FOR EMPLOYER Dont engage a servant without having a clear understand-ing as to what he or she is expected to do. Dont give an order and then forget it, and contradict your-self. Dont send orders to one servant through another if youcan avoid it. Dont discuss servants in general, or those of any particularnationality, while you are being waited on at table. Dont promise a holiday, or any pleasure, and then take itback. Dont spy upon your servants — take pains to be sure theyare honest, and then trust them rationally. Dont expose them to temptation by leaving money care-lessly about, as if it had no value for you. Dont go into your servants rooms, unless you have reason tothink they are not clean, — they have a right to some privacy. Dont blame servants for every fault or mistake, and thenleave good service unthanked. They would rather, beinghuman, be scolded and praised than have uniform excellencetaken for granted. Dont expect in your servants a perfection which wou

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