ABSTRACT
The subject of servants and domestic management is one which is said to interest nine women out of ten, and to be the one great staple of conversation whenever women come together. But the conversation turns on the failings and the shortcomings of servants, on the difficulty of obtaining them, and on their independence, and not on the methods by which households should be so managed as to attract them. Some would introduce Chinese servants; others think that by a system of co-operative kitchens and other labour-saving appliances, we may succeed in doing without servant's altogether. The landlord who leaves the management of his estates entirely in the hands of an agent is not generally thought a model person, and the woman who is at the head of a large establishment and leaves the whole arrangements and the control of the servants to a housekeeper is surely in exactly the same position.
