Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with ..

In some families the oook does the entire washing and ironìng, exoepting the shirts, collare, and cirfib, whìch are seni to the laundry. I^metinies a woman assistB her one or two days a week. After the laundry work is done, the cook devotes the rest of the week to cleaning the kitchen, kitchen closets, hall, front basement, ice bozes, etc. The waitress takes the oook's place one eyening in the week and eyery other Sunday, and the cook takes the place of waitress on her night off. The chambermaid and waitress should make the cook's bed and take care of her room. The waitress should not be ezpected to help in the kitchen, as on washing and ironing days she will be kept busy cleaning the silyer, sweeping, cleaning and dusting the upper part of the house, dining-room, and parlor floor. Her mistress will anrange the days on whìch she performs these duties. Duties of Gteneral House Servant in House or Apartment If only one servant is kept and she is engaged to do the entire general work, she does not as a rule expect much time off. In many cases she has every second Sunday, and one evening in the week, and occasionally two or three hours of an aftemoon for shopping. In some cases the mistress washes the dishes and makes the beds, especially on washing and iron- ing days, and on her Sunday afternoon and evening off. But no two households are alike. Rules differ very much. 82 CHAPTER V DON'TS FOB EMPLOYER Don't engagé a servant witbout having a dear understand- ing as to what he or she is expected to do. Don^t give an order and then f orget it, and contradict your- self. Don^t send orders to one servant through another if you can avoid it. Don't discufls servantB in general, or those of any particular Dationality, whìle yon are being waited on at table. Don't promise a holiday, or any pleasure, and then take it back. Don't spy upon your seryants — take pains to be sure they are honest, and then trust them rationaily. Don't expose them to temptation by leaving money care- lessly about, as if it had no vaine f or you. Don't go into your servants' rooms, unless you bave reason to ihink they are not dean, — they bave a right to some privacy. Don't blame servants for every fault or mistake, and then leave good service unthanked. They would rather, being human, be scolded and praìsed than bave uniform excellence taken for granted. Don't expect in your servants a perfection which would be impossible in any human being. Don't talk of one servant in the hearing of another. Don't dìscuss one servant with another. Don't rely on information given you by one servant of the other witbout first investigating. Of ten ili-feeling and jealousy wìll prompt a false report. » 88 84 MB8. SEELT'a COOK BOOK Don't allow the cook to stint the table of the serTants. They should be well fed. It pays to drop into the Mtchen at meal time and see if their meals are properly cooked and served. Don't fail to see that their beds are good and their rooms properly cared for. Give each one a separate room when it is pofisible. Don't expect serrants to perform duties without proper utensils to work with. Ha ve dust sheets, cloths, brooms, brushes, [Mtils, chamois, dusters, etc., and require each servant to look after his or her own articles.