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Hints to Servants (Be neat in person and dress)

Be neat in person and dress.

Keep your hands clean and hair tidy.

Do not waste time in gadding about and gossip.

Be quiet, polite and respectful in your manners.

Tell the truth always, but especially to children.

Do not spend your money foolishly in gewgaws of dress. Always follow your mistress' plan of work, or explain why you do not. Keep your room neat and orderly, and make it as attractive as possible. Do not waste any thing. To waste carelessly is almost as wrong as to steal.

Never tell tales out of the family, or repeat in one what you have seen in another.

Never break a promise to children, and do not frighten them with stories, or help them to conceal wrong-doing.

Remember that there is nothing gained by slighting work. Doing every thing as well as possible always saves labor in housekeeping. Remember that the best and most faithful girls command the highest wages, get the easiest and best places, and never are out of employment.. Learn from books or from those who have had more experience, the best way of doing work, and plan to do it, with as much system and few steps as possible.

Don't change employers. There are trials in every place, and it is better to put up with them, and make them as light as possible, than to change to new ones.