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

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servant in London from New York.
The servants should rise at 80, and
the cook little earlier; she then lights the
Kitchen fire. opens the house, sweeps hall,
cleans steps, prepares upstairs and down.
stairs breakfast Meantime the house par
lor maid does the dining-room, takes up
hot water to bedrooms, lays the table, ETC.,
and takes up the children's breakfast
Surprising the house breakfast is not
wanted before $50, that meal should be
taken in both kitchen and nursery before
8 o'clock As soon as this is over the
cook must tidy her kitchen, look over her
stories, contents of pantries, ETC., and be
ready Dy $3.50 10 take her orders for the
day. She will answer the kitchen Dell at
al times, and perhaps the front door in the
morning, and will be answerable beside for
ordinary kitchen work, for the hall, kitchen
stairs, all the basement and according to
arrangement, possibly the dining-room.
She must have fixed days for doing the
ABOVE work, cleaning tins. ETC. The cook
also clears away the breakfast; as soon as
the house maid has taken up the family
breakfast, she 1.-THE house maid) must go
and begin the bedrooms where the second
scullery maid may help her as soon as she
has done helping the cook.
THE HOUSE PARLoR MAID
ana sitting room and all the bedrooms;
also stairs ana landing, having regular
days for turning out one of each weekly,
being helped by the second scullery maid.
She would be dressed in time for lunch,
wait on it and clear away. She will
answer the front door in the afternoon,
take up > o'clock tea, lay the table
must clear the kitchen meals and help
in all the washing up; take up nursery
tea, help the cook prepare late dinner
carry up the dishes for late dinner, clear
ana wash up kitchen supper. The nurse
has her dinner in the kitchen. Servants
meals should be breakfast before the
family, dinner directly after upstairs
lunch, tea at five, supper at nine. They
should go to BED regularly at 10 o'clock.
Now as to their fare. For breakfast a lit
tie bacon or an egg or some smoked fish:
Tor dinner meat, vegetagbles, potatoes and
pudding. If joint has been set up for
lunch 1t is usual for it to go down to the
servants table.
ALLOW one pint and a half of beer to
each servant who asks for it, or one bottle
Tea, butter and sugar are given out to
them.
The weekly bills for the servants shall
be about $3.50"
And so on. The neatness of all this care
full housekeeping would be delightful if it
could be carried out with US or if the SER
want would accept it. But imagine
A NEW YORK MISTRESS
achieving it. TIE independent voter
would revolt. Neither he nor his wife
would accept it. English servants lose all
their good manners when they come over
here and cannot appear at all as they do in
London.
American servants are always expected
4 ear hot Il
table and there is no such thing as making
one servant wait upon another.
There are households in America where
many servants are kept in order by a
clever mistress, but it is rarely an order
which lasts for long. 1t is a vexed ques-
ton, and the freedom with which we take
a servant, without much of character,
must explain a great deal of it Foreign
servants find out soon their legal rights and
their Importance. Where labor is scarce it
is not so easy to get good footman, parlor
maid or cook, the great variety and anti
patty of race comes in. The Irishman will
not work on railroad with the Italians,
and we all know the history of
THE "HEATHEN CHINEE."
Mr.. Winans, in Scotland. hires a place
which reaches from the North sea to the
Atlantic; he spends 100000 year on it.
He has, perhaps, three hundred servants,
every one of them perfect. Imagine his
having such place here How many good
servants could he find, how long would
they stay! How long does a French chef
at $40, 00O year stay. Only one year. He
prefers TO return to France.
Indeed, French servants, poorly paid and
very poorly fed at home, are the hardest to
keep IN this country; they all wish to 60
back. 1t is curious, but they grow imper-
tinent, without seeming to realize it. They
han m
manners as if nothing had happened. 1t
must be in the air.
1t is. however, possible for lady to get
good servants and TO keep them flor
awhile) if she has great executive ability,
if she has a natural leadership; but the
whole question is one which has not yet
been at all mastered.
There is no shook and eye'' between that
ship, loaded down with those who want
work and those who want work done. The
great lack of respect in
The MANNERS OF SERVANTS
in hotels is especially noticeable, after re-
turning from Europe. A woman, sort of
care-taker, on a third-story floor, will sing
while lady is talking to her. not because |
she wishes to sing at all, but to establish |
her independence. In Europe she would |
say; ''Yes, my lady," or "No, my lady," |
when spoken to.
Il is &c be feared that the declaration of |
stands between US and good |
service. We must be content If we find |
one or two amiable Irish or OLD negroes, |
who will serve us because of the love they |
bear US, aud for our children's sake, whom |
they love as if they were their own.
This is, however, but taking the sunny |
side and the humber side. Many opulent /
people in America employ thirty servants,
and their house goes on with much of the |
ENr1rnn0on nlaDonNn c nQl ira<a
fine New YORK house to find butler and |
four men in the dining room, a chef and his |
assistants in the kitchen, head groom and |
MS men in the stables coacbman, who is |
4 very important functionsry, and three
WOMEN IN THE NURSERY
beside the nursery governess, who acts as
lmanuensis OF the lady; the lady's maid,
" hose sole duty is to wait on her lady and |
perhaps the young lady; parlor maid or
.wo, and two chambermaids, laundress
Ind her assistants.
OF course the men in snch a vast estab-
do not sleep in the house, with
perhaps one or two exceptions; the valet of
he gentleman and the head footmau may
De kept at home, as needed II the night, for
brands, etc. But our American houses
Ire not built TO accommodate so many. One
ady, the head of such an establishment,
aid that she had never seen her laundress,
different staircase led to the servants
DOM aud her maid did all the interviewing
With this important parsonage.
If a lady can flnd competent house
Keeper to direct this large household, it is
III very we'll, but that is yet almost impos-
ible. so that the life of fashionable
woman in New York who is the head of
uch house is apt to be slavery. The
lousekeeper and the butler are sell
lom friends, therefore the hostess has
o reconcile these two conflicting pow
RS before she can give dinner. The
lead footman walks off disguised and