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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 110, Vol. III, February 6, 1886
The cry is everywhere the samethe badness of our modern servants. But who is really to blamethe mistresses or the maids? the masters or the employed? The one class are educated, the other are comparatively ignorant; and influence filters downwardsit does not permeate the social mass from below. We cast longing looks backward to the bygone times when servants were the humble friends of the family, ready to serve for love and bare maintenance if bad times came, and identifying themselves with the fortunes of their masters. But we forget that we ourselves have changed even more than they, since the days when mistresses overlooked the maids in closer companionship than is warranted now by the conditions of societywhen daily details were ordered by the lady, and the execution of her orders was personally supervisedwhen housekeeping was at once an art and a pleasure, a science and a source of pride. Then young servants were trained immediately under the eye of the mistress and by her direct influence; as now they are trained under the head servant of their special department. And in this change of teachers alone, if no other cause were wanting, we could trace the source of the deterioration complained of. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 67014
Author: Various
Release Date: Dec 26, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: William and Robert Chambers
Publication Date: 1853
Publisher Country: United Kingdom
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