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Updated: June 15, 2025
This word "help" applied itself to such cases, distinguishing them from those of the ordinary servant, and girls of the good families put themselves under notable housekeepers to learn the secrets of the profession a form of cooking and household economy school, that we sigh for vainly to-day.
There is a belief that housekeeping is the only occupation for women; that all women must be housekeepers, whether they like it or not. Men may do as they like, and indulge their individuality, but every true and womanly woman must take to the nutmeg grater and the O-Cedar Mop.
Riches and poverty are of course but relative terms; but the happiest material position in which a man can be placed is that of 'means with a margin. Then, however small his income may be, however it may behove him to 'cut and contrive, as the housekeepers call it, he does not feel the pinch of poverty.
Besides, the mat protects the table from too close contact with hot dishes. Small table mats for the purpose of protecting the cloth are not fashionable at present, though many careful housekeepers retain them rather than risk injury to fine table linen. Carving-cloths are used when carving is done at the table, but are not needed when dinner is served
Butter costs from sixty to seventy cents a pound. One can easily see, therefore, that it takes all the skill and experience in domestic economy of Parisian housekeepers to maintain the prices of living at anything like its present standard in pensions and hotels. But, in truth, the general standard of French cooking has been much lowered since the war.
Santon had proved herself to be one of the best of housekeepers, and greatly did she pride herself on her abilities for filling the station of a farmer's wife.
It was an occasion looked forward to with trepidation and misgiving, but we need not have felt alarmed. No one could have been more genial in his attitude to the youthful housekeepers. He would chat easily and pleasantly with even the youngest of us, and he always managed to find some interesting topic. Sometimes he would give us an account of the doings at the Conference during the day.
And no housekeeper, whatever may be her habits, can escape the frequent recurrence of negligence or mistake, which interferes with her plans. It is probable that there is no class of persons in the world who have such incessant trials of temper, and temptations to be fretful, as American housekeepers.
"My countrymen?" said he; "this scamp is no countryman of mine; nor is one of the whole kit. They are all from Wrexham, a mixture of broken housekeepers and fellows too stupid to learn a trade; a set of scamps fit for nothing in the world but to swear bodily against honest men. They say they will stand up for Sir Watkin, and so they will, but only in a box in the Court to give false evidence.
"Housekeepers don't sport this kind of jewelry. What are you? Housebreakers sneak thieves confidence game?" Mrs. De Peyster gaped at him. "I I don't understand." "It's really a pretty fair front you're putting up," he commented with a dry indulgent smile. "But might as well drop it, for you see I'm on. But I think I understand." He nodded.
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