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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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CHAPTER
XXII.
SERVANTS.
An
English
writer,
speaking
of
servants,
says:--
"There
is
no
question
but
that
we
should
seek
to
perform
all
our
duties
without
hope
of
recompense;
and
yet,
as
regards
our
treatment
of
servants,
we
should
be
especially
careful
that,
in
endeavoring
to
make
their
bodily
comfort
and
mental
improvement
an
object
of
consideration,
we
do
not
allow
ourselves
to
dwell
on
the
hope
of
gratitude
or
affection
from
them
in
return.
Many
have
done
so,
and
having,
with
that
view,
been
tempted
to
accord
unwise
indulgences
and
to
overlook
serious
faults,
they
have
found
that,
far
from
gaining
the
love
of
their
servants,
they
have
incurred
their
contempt;
and
when
they
have
perceived
that
their
favors,
unappreciated,
have
led
but
to
new
encroachments,
they
have
hardened
their
hearts
and
rushed
into
an
opposite
extreme.
Then
they
have
considered
their
servants
as
mere
machines,
from
which
labor
must
be
extorted
by
all
available
means.
"A
man
servant
is
rarely
grateful,
and
seldom
attached.
He
is
generally
incapable
of
appreciating
those
advantages
which,
with
your
cultivated
judgment,
you
know
to
be
the
most
conducive
to
his
welfare.
Do
you
accord
to
him
regular
hours,
a
stated
allowance
of
work;
do
you
refrain
from
sending
him
out
because
it
is
wet
and
he
is
unwell;
do
you
serve
yourself
rather
than
ring
for
him
at
dinner
time;
he
will
rarely
have
the
grace
to
thank
you
in
his
heart
for
your
constant
consideration.
Hear
him!
He
will
thus
describe
a
comfortable
place:--'There
were
very
few
in
the
family;
when
they
went
out
of
a
night,
we
made
it
up
of
a
morning;
we
had
nice
hot
suppers,
and
the
cook
made
a
good
hash
for
breakfast,
and
we
always
got
luncheon
between
that
and
dinner;
and
we
were
all
very
comfortable
together,
and
had
a
friend
in
when
we
liked.
Master
swore
at
us
sometimes,
but
often
made
us
a
present
for
it
when
he
had
been
very
violent;
a
good-hearted
man
as
ever
lived,
and
mistress
was
quite
the
lady,
and
never
meddled
with
servants.
It
was
a
capital
place!'
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