The House Servant's Directory: Or, A Monitor for Private Families: Comprising Hints on the Arrangement and Performance of Servants' Work ... and Upwards of 100 Various and Useful Receipts, Chiefly Compiled for the Use of House Servants; and Identically Made to Suit the Manners and Customs of Families in the United States ... |
Contents
Address and behaviour to your employers | 69 |
Behaviour to your fellow servants | 70 |
Behaviour of servants at their meals | 74 |
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The House Servant's Directory: An African American Butler's 1827 Guide Robert Roberts Limited preview - 2006 |
Common terms and phrases
apply attention beautiful beer boil bone bottle bottom breakfast brush centre classes of colored clean cloth cold colored society comfort cook cork dessert dinner dirty dishes dust eggs employers fire forks GINGER BEER give glasses grate half an ounce hard coal higher classes house servant ink spots keep kind knife knives ladies lamps leather left hand Lehigh likewise linen liquor Liverpool look MAHOGANY manner matrass meat neat never observing parlour party person Philadelphia piece of flannel pint plate polish pound powder put round quart quick Rhode Island salt sauce Schuylkill side sideboard silver slices soap soft soap soft water spirits of wine spoons stale stand sugar sweet oil taste thing tion tray turpentine varnish vinegar W.E.B. DuBois wash WILLIAM WHIPPER wipe young friends