The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
distinguish her good sense: while the answering the questions, and
filling up the copy books on the admirable Interrogative System, will
be the means of incalculable advantage to her pupils, and a source
of infinite gratification to their parents. The branches of ELEGANT
LITERATURE are also within her reach, in such books as Aikin’s Poetry
for Children, and Pratt’s Selection of Classical Poetry; and if she
chooses to expand their intelligence, she can provide them with Blair’s
Belles Lettres, Shaw’s Nature Displayed, (a book which ought to be
found in every family,) and with a pair of globes, a microscope, and
a telescope. DRAWING is also so essential an accomplishment, that its
constant exercise should be kept up by means of Hamilton’s Elementary
Examples, or those of Chalons and Calvert.
No young persons who are born to the enjoyment of fortune, and destined
to fill any stations in society with credit and advantage, ought to
have these accomplishments and sources of knowledge withheld from them;
and the governess who contents herself with mere personal attainments,
without at the same time addressing instruction to the MIND of her
pupils, and who lays before them old-fashioned books, and obsolete
systems of knowledge, compromises her own character, and sacrifices
through their lives, the interests, welfare, and reputation, of her
pupils.
In the sub-division of time, prolonged application is wearisome, and
too frequent renewals are irksome. The best time for learning is in
the morning before breakfast, and one hour and a half, or two hours,
between seven and nine, will always be worth the three hours, which
should be industriously passed, between eleven and two. The rest of
the day should be devoted, in fine weather, to EXERCISE and AMUSEMENTS
in the open air; and in bad weather to such amusements as induce
exercise, of which, dancing, the skipping-rope, and dumb-bells, should
form a part, and certain games which are practised in genteel society,
as chess and cards, may be advantageously introduced in winter evenings.
Religion, morals, and temper, should be specially studied, and the
essays of Mrs. Chapone, and Mrs. Hannah More, Barrow’s Questions, his
School Bible, and School Sermons, with Blair’s or Enfield’s Sermons,
are suitable auxiliaries. Bad habits should be watched and corrected,
and graceful ones, cleanliness and neatness of person, be stimulated.
Blair’s Governess’s Register of Study and Conduct, will prove an
excellent auxiliary. Superstitions, and vulgar faith in dreams, signs,
omens, fortune-telling, and other weaknesses of mind, should be
constantly exposed.
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