Robert's Guide for Butlers and Household Staff : 9781432604141 : 04 May 2005 : 1827. The house servant's directory or a monitor for private families: comprising hints on the arrangement and performance of servants' work, with general rules for setting out tables and sideboards in first order; the art of waiting in all its branches; and likewise how to conduct large and small parties with order; with general directions for placing on table all kinds of joints, fish, fowl, etc. with full instructions for cleaning plate, bras, steel, glass, mahogany; and likewise all kinds of patent and common lamps: observations on servants' behaviors to their employers; and upwards of 100 various and useful receipts, chiefly compiled for the use of house servants, and identically made to suit the manners and customs of families in the United States. With friendly advice to cooks and heads of families and complete directions how to burn Lehigh coal. This is a fascinating look at the manners of the upper