The upstairs-work having been done, the candlesticks and lamps should be cleaned and trimmed; and then the knives cleaned. Where only one servant is kept, she will ere this have had to think about dinner, and manage so as to make the earlier preparations for that important matter between whiles. A mistress should always early inform her domestic what she intends having for dinner, otherwise the servant cannot possibly arrange her daily duties in a proper manner, so as to attend to the cooking; and the mistress should, as far as possible, endeavour to arrange her dinner so as to suit the household duties of the particular day for which she is catering. For each day should have its special duties; as, Monday the wash for towels, dusters, servants’ clothes, &c., and looking up the clothes for the laundress; Tuesday, cleaning the attics; Wednesday, the best bed-rooms; Thursday, the drawing-rooms; Friday, the dining-rooms and plate; and Saturday, the hall, staircase, and kitchens, and covers, &c. Such regulations once laid down, the servant will know what each day requires of her; and the mistress, being aware what has to be done, will be able to give her orders accordingly,—for nothing can be done without good management in a small household. Both mistress and servant must exercise forethought, or the whole day will be one scene of hurry and discomfort. The next thing, then, is dinner, and this meal having been served and removed, the servant must, if the family are in the habit of retiring to the drawing-room, run up and see that all is right there; the fires burning and curtains let down, if in winter, or any little customary summer arrangements made. Then comes washing up the dinner-things, and preparing for tea, and serving that at the proper hour. While the tea is in the sitting-room is the best time for the servant to go up to the bed-rooms, turn down the beds, close windows, light fires, or perform any other customary or necessary duty. The tray has to be removed, and cups used at that meal washed up and put away. The tea-leaves should be squeezed tolerably dry, and put away in an old dish or basin, for sweeping. All window-shutters should be closed and doors bolted at dusk, both in winter and summer. If supper is taken, it is usually carried up on a tray covered with a cloth; after that comes the putting out of all fires and lamps, the fastening the hall-door, and then to rest.