| Description | Articles on the "servant problem" appeared frequently in the daily and periodical press from the 1840's onwards.
This article is usually written by a butler of fourteen years' experience, who was clearly an intelligent and well-informed man. Though fully admitting the shortcomings of his colleagues, he places the blame squarely on the attitude and irresponsibility of their employers.
They trat their servants as immoral, they unnecessarily limit their exercise of responsibility. they frown on any spontanteous
action which does not fall in with their own caprice, and theyfrown an any spontaneous action, which does not fall in with other caprice, and then look for the development of high moral characters.
The care of servants is too often relegated to a butler or housekeeper more debauched then those over whom they have charge.
Lived in three out of five houses that he's worked at, in the last 14 years.
Handwritten/Typed Written:
Type-written 14 typewritten pages. |