A new system of practical domestic economy.

Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new system of practical domestic economy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stitutes—Management of Ale and Beer. Wine Cellar—Choice of Wines—Tests—Tricks— General Management—Made Wines. Spirit Cellar 233 SECTION VI. EXTERNAL CONVENIENCES. Kitchen Garden.—Orchard.—Flower Gar- den.—Apiary.—Poultry-Yard.— Piggery Farm-Yard.—Ornamental Grounds. Con- servatory. — Hot-house. — Aviary. — Im- provements SECTION VII. SERVANTS’-HALL. Goodness of Servants—Mutual faults of Master and Servant—English Servants recommended m preference to foreign ones—Good appearance of Servants — Master’s character and family Secrets—Mutual duties of Masters and Ser- vants—Giving Characters—Folly of raising Ser- vants above their stations—The giving of orders—Bad effects of favouritism, and of encou- raging spies and tatlers—Folly of confiding secrets—Board-wages—Exposure of Servants to vice, whilst waiting at public places—Vails and card-money—Vices of Servants—Injudicious punishments—Capricious discharge of Female Servants and its bad consequences—Proper modes of encouragement, &c
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