If the last course is salad instead of dessert, then, as you take off the used plates of the meat course, replace them with cold plates, bring the bowl of salad on and do not remove crumbs, salts, etc., until this course is finished. If your mistress prefers to make the salad dressing herself, put the bowl of lettuce in front of her, and at her right hand the oil, vinegar, and condiments she desires, and a small bowl and a tablespoon to mix the dressing in. When she has made the dressing and mixed it with the lettuce, quickly remove, on a tray, the oil, vinegar, etc., and pass the salad bowl around to each person, offering with your other hand a plate of crackers. This course being finished, remove salad, then plates, then peppers, salts, small silver, and then crumbs as described before. After that bring on finger-bowl plates. Then coffee as before. If your mistress prefers not to serve a meat course, such as chops that need no carving, or a dessert course, such as berries that are easily served, you can pass them around without setting them on the table. Having now explained the method of serving the family dinner the following few suggestions will be sufficient for breakfast and lunch: If your mistress does not use a tablecloth for breakfast, place the centerpiece exactly in the middle of the table and in the center of this the plate of fruit (or the plant if there is no fruit). Have the under-plate doily at each place and on it put a fruit plate on which is a finger bowl one third full of water, with a fruit knife at the right of the bowl and a spoon at the left on the plate. To the left of this put a small plate for bread and butter or muffins. Knives and forks are placed the same as for dinner, just as many as you need for the meal. In front of your mistress place the breakfast tray for coffee-urn, hot-water kettle, hot-milk pitcher, and sugar-bowl, but do not bring the hot things in till the family is ready to have breakfast. Arrange the side-table with any extra things that will be needed. Keep the butter cool and bring it on at the last moment and place it on one side of the table opposite the bread, which has been freshly cut. Leave the rest of the loaf of bread in the pantry on a bread-board with the bread-knife ready to cut more slices if needed. See that the newspaper is ready for the master of the house where he likes to have it. Look around to see if the sideboard drawers are all tightly closed so as to look neat and trim. Touch the gong lightly to announce breakfast. Bring on hot coffee, hot milk, and the hot-water kettle. When all are seated, pass around the fruit, then stand at your mistress’s left with a small tray and taking the coffee-cups as she fills them, place them in turn at the right of each person. When the fruit course is finished, remove the plates, putting fresh hot ones in their places in the same way that you do it at dinner.