The household manager : being a practical treatise upon the various duties in large or small establishments, from the drawing-room to the kitchen / by Charles Pierce.

Pierce, Charles

Date:: 1863

Credit: The household manager : being a practical treatise upon the various duties in large or small establishments, from the drawing-room to the kitchen / by Charles Pierce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$neglect of this is said by the late Lady Morgan to have produced the clubs. She writes,*— “ The social want of the times, however, brought its remedy along with it, and the reaction was as- tounding. Then it was that tbe clubs arose—homes of refuge to destitute celibacy, chapels-of-ease to discontented husbands. There men could dine, like gentlemen and Christians, upon all i\ie friandises of the French kitchen, much cheaper and far more wholesomely than at their own tables upon the tough, half-sodden fibres of the national roast and boiled, or on the hazardous resources of calFs-head hash, gravy soup, and marrow puddings. “Moral England gave in. The English ‘home,* that temple of the heart, that centre of all the virtues, was left to the solitary enjoyment of the English wives; and the whole husbandry of England migrated to those splendid duomos, served by priests bred in the cells of lea fr^res Robert, or educated in the cloisters of the Cancale” The position of servants cannot be considered as that of underlings compelled by poverty to bear the badge of painful servitude. Their position is of an enviable nature, if compared to that of soldiers or of sailors, both of whom are compelled to endure every species of hardship, and to expose their lives for the * “ Book without a Name.”$