vant, a mistress, or a tradesman, and in every duty, as well as in making and boiling a pudding. It is want of plan, and it will be a certain bar to advancement, comfort, prosperity, and success. So I hope, my dear girls, you will endeavour to cultivate a habit of forecast; and every morning, or overnight, lay a plan for the day; and every Monday morning, a plan for the week, always allowing a little time for unexpected interruptions; then you will be likely to get through your work with ease, pleasure, and regularity.

Observe, however, that the habit of early rising is absolutely necessary, for without this I never knew either servant or mistress do well. If you do not get up early, your business will get the start of you, and then you may toil hard, and not overtake it all day long.

Those who possess forecast can perform twice the work, with half the bustle and fatigue: the difference between good management and bad is perpetually seen in household affairs; and even in small things the want of forecast will be found, in many families, the sole cause of altercation and confusion. A servant knows she has five minutes to spare before she is wanted for some particular service. If she is destitute of forecast and good management, perhaps she will set about something that would take her halfan-hour or an hour to do, so is obliged to leave off, and has to begin again. She may be annoyed, and say, "Well, it really is not worth while to set about anything just for a few minutes;" so she throws them away in idleness. A good manager bethinks herself of something that will take but four or five minutes to do, and which might as well be done at that moment as any other; she does it; and that is off her mind and care it will not spring forward at any future hour of the day, to vex her mistress by finding it undone, or herself by being called away from some other business to do it.

The Young Servant; and Esther Copley.

"MISTRESS WAS TOO PARTICULAR."

Mrs. Wilson.

"So you have left your place, Ann?" Ann. "Yes, ma'am ; mistress and I could not agree, so mother said it was best for us to part."

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Mrs. W. "It certainly is best, Ann, for parties to separate who cannot agree; at the same time, no servant who knows her true intercst will quit a situation unless there is real cause for it a short character, you know, Ann, is a poor one; it will not usually obtain its possessor either a respectable place or good wages."

Ann. "I should not have left my place so soon, ma'am, had not mistress been so particular: do as I would, I could not please her."

Mrs. W. "You are giving your late mistress a sad character, Ann. You must not forget that it is the duty of a servant to speak justly of her mistress, as it is the duty of the mistress to speak truthfully of her servant. respect, neither can be too particular."

In this

Ann. "Oh, ma'am! I should be sorry to give my late mistress a bad character; she does not quite deserve that, though she was so precise."

Mrs. W. "Why, then, did you not agree?"

Ann. "Because mistress wanted every thing done so exact, and so nice. I could not clean the stove, nor the knives, nor the plate, to please her; and if the breakfast or dinner was a little after time, or the meat a little over or under done, or the kitchen things not washed directly after use, she was sure to find fault with me."

Mrs. W. reproofs ?"

"And was your mistress very severe in her

Ann. "No, she did not speak unkindly; but I could see she was vexed."

Mrs. W. "Did she often reprove you wrongfully?"
Ann. “No; I cannot say she did.”

Mrs. W. "Then, perhaps she expected more work from you than you agreed for, or more than so young a girl as you are knew how to perform?"

Ann. "No, ma'am, I had not more to do in my last place than what I have often done before."

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Mrs. W. “Then, if you had nothing to do, Ann, but what you had agreed to do, and what you could do, and if your mistress gave you sufficient time to do it, you ought not to complain of her; she had a right to require that work should be well done, and it was very wrong in you to quit a place in which your careless habits might have been corrected, and where, in time, you could have learned to be a thorough servant."

Ann. "But it is not very pleasant, ma'am, to be continually found fault with."

Mrs. W. "It is not agreeable, certainly, but it is both necessary and useful. But now tell me, Ann, what had happened to vex you the other day, when I called? You seemed to me sadly out of temper."

Ann. 66 Oh, that was not with mistress; but the shoemaker did not bring my shoes home in time for

Mrs. W. "And was that all?"

my holiday."

Ann. "No, ma'am; the bonnet I had paid for to be cleaned was not a good colour; and, besides that, I wanted particularly to wear my new gown that day, and when I went to dress myself I found that the dress-maker had forgotten to sew on the hooks and eyes; and, of course, all these things were enough to vex me.'

Mrs. W. “Quite so, Ann; the shoe-maker, the bonnetcleaner, and the dress-maker, were not sufficiently particular with your things, and so you were vexed with them. You thought they had used you very ill. Then, why do you complain of your late mistress because she wanted her work done well and punctually? You must learn, Ann, to do as you would be done by; and always remember, that 'what is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.'

Aunt Deborah, in " Servants' Magazine."

THE GOOD WAITRESS.

THE servant who at table waits,
Should have a ready eye;
For 'tis not all, to hand the plates,
And silently stand by.

The table neatly to set out,

As it before was plann'd;

To move with noiseless step about,
To serve with gentle hand:

To cast a look from side to side,
And read in every face

If any want is unsupplied,
Or unfill'd any space:

To have whatever 's call'd for, near;
To speak no useless word;
To hear, yet never seem to hear,
What passes at the board:—

These, of a clever parlour-maid,
The special duties are ;

And she who hopes to be well paid,
Must make them all her care.

Rough Rhymes for Country Girls.

THE NEW SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY.

I HAVE little doubt that my youthful readers recollect the account I have given them of Weston school, and the endeavours of Mrs. Jones to train the village girls to habits of useful industry and domestic economy. I think, therefore, they will be pleased to hear of a visit I paid lately to that pretty rural village. Worthy Mrs. Jones was still alive; not quite so active as she used to be, for she was several years older than when she first became a widow; but she was a cheerful and happy old lady, ready and willing to assist, to the best of her power, any effort for the good of her poor neighbours. The worthy Vicar and the kindhearted Squire of the parish were dead; so also was old Sir John Temple. His amiable daughter-in-law (whom you remember as Mrs. Temple) now resided at the family seat; and Sir William had greatly improved the grounds, which were much larger than they were at the time of the birth-day feast. Very soon after Sir William and his lady took possession of the Hall, he unexpectedly came in for a large fortune, by the death of an uncle in India; and he, not unwisely, considered that by purchasing land and improving his estate he could give a great deal of employment to the labourers who lived near. He built several pretty cottages, and, to please Lady Temple, fitted them up with good grates, having an oven on one side and a boiler on the other; also a washing-copper in a small back kitchen, with other conveniences. Old Mrs. Betty was very glad to obtain

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one of these cottages when she gave up service on the death of her good master, who left her a comfortable legacy. The village schoolmistress had fallen into bad health, and gone to reside with a married daughter, ten miles off; and the cottage in which Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Betty had given so many useful lessons was sadly out of repair. The children were dispersed, and chiefly went to a National school in the neighbouring town, till a new school should be built as this could not be done without a good deal of money, and the new vicar was by no means rich (nor, indeed, were the gentry of the village so), I am afraid Weston would have been many years without a school but for the unexpected fortune that Sir William obtained. Hearing Mrs. Jones one day talking to Lady Temple of the sad loss the village sustained in the removal of pious, useful Mrs. Wilson, he goodnaturedly offered to build a school-house, if the ladies' would give him a plan. In consequence of this offer, a good substantial house was quickly built, and called Lady Temple's School of Industry ;" and, that she might be able to support it liberally, he placed a considerable sum of money in the bank for the purpose, giving up the entire management of the institution to his wife.

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She was judicious as well as charitable, anxious to do the utmost good such schools are calculated to do. She consulted her friends, visited schools, and gained all the information in her power, while the school was building. The great object of her desire was to train young girls for service, and make them thoroughly comfortable and useful in their own station. As this cannot be done without the early attainment of good habits, the school-house was built and furnished as a home for a certain number of girls. The school-room, however, was large enough for the village, and was therefore a public benefit.

It had been well established a few years before I was able to pay my long-promised visit to Sir William and Lady Temple, so that what I can now tell you about it was not all performed in a day; many difficulties had arisen and been overcome in the undertaking, for no real good can ever be done effectually without patient perseverance and experience; but when I went to Weston, the new school was getting into great favour, and the parents were well pleased to find their children become every day more handy and useful.

Now to return to my visit.