Excerpt from The Maid-of-All-Work's Complete Guide: Being Plain and Accurate Instructions for Properly Arranging and Correctly Performing the Duties of a Maid-of-All-Work, in Good Families, Including the Most Exact Directions for Every Thing in the Art of Plain Cookery, That Her Situation Can RequireThe situation of Maid-of-all-work in a tradesman's family is often a very respectable one, and in some respect prefer able to service in high families, or in houses where several. Servants are kept, because, if you should like to lay by a part of your wages in the Savings Bank, there are no fel low servants to join with for tea and many other expensive articles, which, unfortunately, is generally the case in houses where many servants are kept. Nor have you the tempers, and sometimes the hindrances, of fellow-servants to put up with, but have only your employers to please.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.