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A practical guide for household employers and domestic servants offers clear, everyday counsel on mutual duties, respect, and Christian conduct. It argues for regarding servants as members of the family while stressing corresponding responsibilities, and advocates patient teaching and fair treatment. Chapters cover nursery care and influence over children, thoroughness in tasks, time economy, care of property, punctuality, dress, visitors, fault-finding, notices to leave, and providing references. The volume also suggests practical helps and gifts for young servants, recommends spiritual resources for moral strength, and summarizes the legal rights and obligations of both employers and employees.

Servants and Service.

BY
RUTH LAMB,

Author of ‘Only a Girl Wife,’ ‘Girls’ Work and Workshops,’ ‘One Little Vein
of Dross,’ ‘Her Own Choice,’ etc., etc.

London:
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,

56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul’s Churchyard;
and 164, Piccadilly.