The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-14

buffers to market and leave to them the ar
rangement Of the table. If a woman cook
is kept this is generally done. but in Eng
land butler would not consider this his
work.
ALI the men servants must be clean
shaver, none are permitted to wear mus
taches; that is the privilege of the gentle
men,
A lady's maid Is not expected TO do her
own washing or make her own bed in Eu-
rope, and in this country, being expected
to do all that and to eat with the other ser
wants. she is apt to complain.
AFRENcH MAID
always complains OF the table. She must
be good hair dresser, understand dress
making and clear starching, a good packer,
and always at hand to dress her lady, and
TO sit up for her when she returns form
parties.
Some Of the well trained Swedes make
excellent maids.
When ladies' maid is hired to attend
young ladies, TO walk with them in the
street, she must be a superior person. 1t
Is better, if possible, to hire nursery gov
erness to fill this place
In many houses the maid brings up the
hot water and the early tea to her mistress.
She prepares the bath, assists al every tot
let, lays out the dinner dress, dresses her
longings
The nursery governess is position filed
IN England by educated women, who do not
eat with the other servants, but they wash
and dress the children if asked to do so, eat
with them and teach them the rudimentary
branches
The meals for the upper servants who do
not eat with the other servants are pre-
pared by a kitchen maid, who is an impor-
tant functionary. While the chief cook is
absorbed in the grand dinners this person
age dees all the cooking,
LII lady can have servants dining
room, and meals served separately for
them, it simplifes the business OF life very
much.
Nine meals q day are cooked in an opu-
lent house at Newport. A breakfast for
the servants, another for the children and
governess, another for
THE MASTER AND HIS GUESTS
make three, The children's dinner, the
servants dinner, the family luncheon, an
other three. The grand dinner at Z 80, the
children's tea, the servants supper make
another three.
Where two footmen are in attendance,
the head footman attends the door, waits
on his mistress when she drives, sitting by
the coachman, carries notes, assists the
butler, lays the table,and clears it, washes
man rises at 6, makes fires, cleans boots,
trims and cleans the lamps and candle
sticks, opens the shutters and front door,
sweeps the steps, and, indeed, does the
rougher part of the work before the family
are down.
After him comes the butler, to see that
the library and smoking room are in order,
to attend to the laying out of newspaper,
magazines and paper knife to render the
room in all respects comfortable for his
master when he comes down. If the ser
wants are in livery, the butler must see
to it that they keep themselves neat and
clean. A white cravat is Indispensable.
Most
SERVANTS IN AMERICA
are simply dressed in black, with fresh
linen and cravat TO wait on table and go TO
the door. Some rich men, however. have
several "funkies' in livery, sort of cut
away dress coat, vest of another color,
small clothes, long stockings and low shoes.
Powdered footmen have hardly got over
here yet. The mead groom and his assist
ants, the coachman and footman, always
raise their hats when spoken TO by master
or mistress. A footman touches his hat, as
he receives an order, with his foretnger.
When the Prince of Wales enters his coupe
the coachman on the box takes OFF his hat
and holds it until the prince is seated.
these imported fellow citizens OF ours is
difficult task. 1t is the first break in the
chain. A servant may be quite valuable in
other respects, but he soon gets to feel that
his vote is
AS GOOD AS HIS MASTERS.
And il he is an Irishman, it is rather bet
ter, so that men servants are apt TO be dis
There are some houses where the law of
change goes on forever, and there are some
where the domestic machine runs without
friction. The hostess may be a person
with talent for governing, and may De
inspired with a sixth sense, if she can
make her composite family respectful and
happy, but IL must be confessed that IL is
as yet vexed question, one that gives US
trouble and will give US more.
Those people are the happiest who can
get on with three or four servants, and very
many families live well and elegantly with
this number.
To mark the difference in the feeling as
between those who employ and those who
serve, one little anecdote may apply. At
place in Europe l once met an
lady said to her housemaid: ''Bromlon,
this evening"
Bromlon said: eyes, my lady,
An American lady stood near with her
maid, who flushed deeply.
what is the matter, Jane gu asked the
lady.
"Inever could stand having anyone called
my master" said the American.
NJ. Z. w. SHERWOOD.