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gaining her bread by honest means. To suspect all servants of being
thieves, or disposed to become so, merely because they are
servants, is as silly as it is unfeeling. I should never hesitate
to give my keys to a servant, when it happened to be inconvenient
to me to leave company, any more than I should hesitate to intrust
them to one of my own family; but this act of confidence is far
different in its effects from that neglect which often proceeds
from mere idleness, and, while it proclaims a disregard of the
value of property, is the occasion of so much waste, and in the end
proves as ruinous to the employer as it is fatal in the way of
example to the servant. That " servants are great plagues" may be
the fact; but I am, nevertheless, bold enough to assert that it is
a greater plague to be without them. When all the hardships which
belong to the life of a maid-servant are taken into consideration
(which I am afraid they very rarely are), the wonder is, that the
greater part of this class of persons are not rendered less
obliging and less obedient to the will of their employers, and more
callous to their displeasure, than we really find them. THE
KITCHEN. The benefit of a good kitchen is well known to every
housekeeper, but it is not every mistress that is aware of the
importance of having a good cook. I have seen kitchens which
appeared to be fitted up with every convenience, and certainly at
considerable expence, which yet failed to send forth good dinners,
merely because the lady of the house was not happy in her choice of
a cook. I do not in the least admire epicures, or epicurism; and
yet I would be more particular in the selecting of the servant who
is to perform the business of preparing thafood of the family, than
I should deem it necessary to be in selecting an...
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