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The Board Wages of Servants in general, when the family is absent, is 10s. per Week, for the females, and 12s. per Week for males. -Perhaps all the servants on a large establishment may be reckoned at an average of 10s. per head, per Week, expense, for Board. The Men are allowed a Pot of Ale per day, and the Women a Pint, besides table-beer.

Besides the ordinary Establishment of Servants, Noblemen and Gentlemen of superior fortune employ Land- Stewards, Bailiffs, Woodwards, Game-Keepers, Park-Keepers, Huntsmen, Whippers-in, Racing-Grooms, Jockies, and others of inferior capacities: also MenCooks, Groom of the Chambers, Page, Lady'sCoachman, Postillion and Footman, Seamstress, Second Lady's-Maid, Chamber-Maids, Boy for the Steward's Room, another for the Hall, and various other Servants.

Having premised thus much as to încome, and its proportionate appropriation, we next proceed to offer a few hints on such parts of interior management, as in most families are considered as belonging to the lady, or mistress of the house.

The first is, naturally, the attention due to her husband and children-to make home, "sweet home," the pleasing refuge of a husband, fatigued, perhaps, by his intercourse with a jarring world,—to be his enlightened companion, and the chosen frieud of his bosom.

"Oh, speak the joy, ye, whom the tender tear
Surprizes often, when ye look around,

And nothing strikes your eyes but sights of bliss." The attention of an amiable woman, will next be directed to the care of her offspring,-to raise them up in the ways of virtue and usefulness,

To rear the tender thought,

To teach the young idea how to shoot,To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind,— To breathe the enlivening spirit,-and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast;" "these, these are woman's duties, and delightful ones they are! Happy the man who can call her his wife; blessed are the children who call her mother!" For the foregoing sentiments we are indebted to an amiable and celebrated authoress of the present day, and to the no less celebrated and amiable Thomson; and we feel impelled to quote the concluding sentence of the above-mentioned lady, on this interesting subject.

"When we thus observe the mistress of a family exercising her activity and best abilities in appropriate cares and increasing excellence, are we not ready to say she is the agent for good, of that benevolent being who placed her on earth to fulfil such sacred obligations, and not to waste the talents committed to her charge."

"Next to the care and attention due to your husband and children," says another female

writer, "your servants claim, as your nearest dependents; and to promote their good, both spiritual and temporal, is your indispensable duty. Let them join your family devotions, and endeavour to make them spend their Sabbath properly." She further adds, "It was the remark of an old domestic, that the worst mistresses servant can live with are young married women-" They are unreasonable," said she," in their commands; they expect too much; nor do they rightly know when to commend, or when to blame."

In your manner to your servants, be firm, without being severe, and kind, without being familiar. Never converse familiarly with them, unless on business, or on some point connected with their improvement; but with this reserve, and distance of manner, be particularly careful to maintain kindness, gentleness, and respect for their feelings. Their patience is often unnecessarily exercised, and their tempers wantonly irritated. "I have been sometimes shocked," says the same amiable writer, "with the want of politeness, by which masters and mistresses provoke impertinence from their servants."-A lady, who filled every station of life with honour, both to her head and heart, attending the death-bed of an old domestic, who had been thirty years in her service" How do you find yourself, to-day, Mary?" said the mistress, taking hold of her

withered hand." "Is that you, my darling mistress!" and a beam of joy overspread the old woman's face; "O, yes," she added, looking up," it is you, my kind, my mannerly mistress!" The poor old creature said no more; but she had, by that last simple sentence, expressed volumes of panegyric on her amiable mistress. Human nature is the same in all stations; and if you strive to convince your servants that you have a generous and compassionate regard for their comfort, they will, in return, evince their gratitude. If to protect and encourage virtue be the best preventive from vice, then will your deserving female servants be liberally encouraged.

Let your commands to your servants be consistent and reasonable; and then mildly, but firmly, insist on obedience to them." My servants never remember what I tell them to do," is a complaint but too common, but that might, in some degree, be obviated. Let them see that you will not pass over any neglect of orders; and when they find that this decisive measure is accompanied with kindness and consideration, and that you are not to be disobeyed with impunity, they will soon learn to remember what you command them to do. A little effort very easily overcomes a bad memory.

It is very disheartening to a poor servant to be continually found fault with. Praise and

reward them when you can ;-human nature will not bear constant chiding.

Never keep servants, however excellent they may be in their stations, whom you know to be guilty of immorality..

When servants are ill, their mistress will, doubtless, recollect that she is their patroness as well as their employer, and will not only remit their labour, but render them all the assistance of proper medicine, food, and comfort, in their power.-Tender assiduity is half a cure; it is a balsam to the mind, which has a powerful effect on the body–soothes the severest pains, and strengthens beyond the richest cordial. The poor dependent creatures may have no where to go to-no one else to turn to; and their pale and impaired looks will always have a claim on your sympathy.

As we shall have occasion to make further remarks on the management of servants, when treating of the business of the Housekeeper, we beg leave, in order to avoid repetition, to refer to that subject, under the head-HOUSE..

KEEPER.

"Economy," says Mr. Cobbett, "is management." The fact is, that management and regularity, is Economy verified by practice; and all persons. ought to regulate their conduct by circumstances. A moderate income, appropriated to the expenses of housekeeping with prudence and economy, without

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