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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
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Florence Hartley
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"It
is
generally
wise
and
right,
after
a
due
experience
of
the
principles
and
intentions
of
servants,
to
place
confidence
in
their
honesty,
and
to
let
them
have
the
comfort
of
knowing
that
you
do
so.
At
the
same
time,
never
cease
to
exercise
a
system
of
supervision.
The
great
principle
of
housekeeping
is
regularity;
and
without
this
(one
of
the
most
difficult
of
the
minor
virtues
to
practice)
all
efforts
to
promote
order
must
be
ineffectual.
I
have
seen
energetic
women,
clever
and
well-intentioned,
fail
in
attaining
a
good
method,
owing
to
their
being
uncertain
in
hours,
governed
by
impulse,
and
capricious.
I
have
seen
women,
inferior
in
capacity,
slow,
and
apathetic,
make
excellent
heads
of
families,
as
far
as
their
household
was
concerned,
from
their
steadiness
and
regularity.
Their
very
power
of
enduring
monotony
has
been
favorable
to
their
success
in
this
way,
especially
if
they
are
not
called
upon
to
act
in
peculiar
and
difficult
cases,
in
which
their
actual
inferiority
is
traceable.
But
these
are
not
the
ordinary
circumstances
of
life.
"In
closing
these
remarks
on
the
management
of
servants,
let
me
exhort
you
never
to
forget
that
they
are
fellow-laborers,
in
the
life
of
probation,
with
ourselves;
let
us
not
embitter
their
lives
by
harshness,
or
proffer
to
them
temptation
from
carelessness
and
over-indulgence.
Since
all
that
is
given
us
of
this
world's
goods
is
but
in
trust,
let
us
regard
our
servants
as
beings
for
whose
conduct,
while
under
our
control,
we
are
more
or
less
responsible.
It
is
true
that,
if
they
come
to
us
with
morals
wholly
depraved,
it
is
not
likely
that
the
most
strenuous
exertions
can
amend
them;
but
many
waver
between
good
and
evil.
Let
us
endeavor
to
excite
in
their
minds
a
respect
for
virtue,
to
give
them
motives
for
industry,
inducements
to
save
their
wages.
Those
who
have
large
households
should
not
deem
the
morals
of
the
meanest
of
their
servants
beneath
their
investigation,
or
too
obscure
for
their
influence
to
reach."
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