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    150 THE TRAINING OF FEMALE SERVANTS.

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    eva would de the it be regulation for mistresses s which to irritate show , , sympath gall , an y d toward chafe her their . Far servants wiser ,

    and to act on the maxim that those who do the labor deserve generous treatment . Of course if a servant-girl is good-looking , or of be led out

    some established an obli admiring ging truth disposition swain as old . , as she Let the will the hills sooner mistress and or make later accep the t best that sing of fact it . as Who by an

    , will toothat in " affairs of the heart , " which are proverbially critical say , a little , advice kindly given to her servant may not be of

    the utmost , valuefar above that of the ruby or the emerald . There is another , instance in which the thoughtfulness of mistresses

    may sity is show perhaps itself the . To last put thing away that a few occurs shillings to the for mind the of day a of servant neces - - her to

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    as little savings trouble -bank , to and much comprehend her to mistress direct the and , without nature aid her and b efforts eing advantages pry to ing or of Perhaps a inquisito common if

    rial mistresses , might would do recognise the power they possess save of . thus guiding their domestics in the difficult task of becoming provident , and of rewould have

    sisting the temptation to excessive expenditure , they less occasion bundle to of comp flimsy lain muslins of the and potent flash spell ribbons exercised . But by the oh ! pack that

    man's y , Brackensbury we These had more thoug charity , hts occasionall occurred . in the y interrup to distant us as ted we fold by returned the and loud the across barking bleating the downs of of the the to

    the young shep ruins herd March ' s of dog the lambs . The monastery wind moaned . the liht more do , wn drearil at y the than little ever harbour round

    homeward shone brighter leaving , the the stars upland came , to out silence by g twos and and to threes gloom , and . _Alban we turned

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    150 The Training Of Female Servants.

    150 THE TRAINING OF FEMALE SERVANTS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/6/