ABSTRACT
In the Art of Decoration, Mary Haweis had already suggested the idea of furnishing to a planned design or ‘system’, with the clear inference of the need for professional input from an artistically trained decorator rather than a fashionable vendor. Women collectively, no doubt, bring their own domestic troubles on themselves. But innocent individuals certainly suffer for the neglect and selfishness of others all the world over, and it by no means always happens that one’s own troubles are one’s own fault, though they may be. Note breakages, cracks and damages, and replace losses before the new servant enters. The dust takes half an hour to settle, and during this process, a few ornaments can be washed or metal goods polished. Then comes the tidying and the beeswaxing, and last the dusting. A good servant will insist upon it in justice to herself and her employer.
