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SKETCHES. B20
a sharp lookout after the cook. But be careful, my dear
child, not to make all the fuss and bustle that so many mis-
tresses are in the habit of indulging in from morning till
night. One would think that no fire could be lit and would
umn, and no fish could be fried, without their poking their
nose into every thing. Believe me, the cook pestered by
her mistress, while she herself is bustling about amongst
her pots and pans, will do her work much worse than if
she were left to manage for herself. Let every body in a
household rule and govern in his own province, while the
head thereof, that is to say, the housewife, superintends and
rules the whole. But to do this properly, she must be
herself a pattern of order and regularity.”
“ Above all,” observed Amelia, “it is necessary to be
strict and even-tempered in your treatment of the servants.
They ought each of them to have their certain and dis-
tinct duties, and be kept to them strictly, but with kind-
ness.”
“So that not,” interrupted Helena, “as I have seen it
somewhere, when any thing is to be done, the man-servant
tells the lady’s maid to do it; the lady’s maid tells the
house-maid; the house-maid tells the cook; and the cook
tells the scullery-maid ; and that at last the mistress has to
light the fire herself.”
“ Besides,” said Amelia, “there is a certain quiet, regu-
lar clock-work in household affairs, which is much to be
recommended. And, moreover, that part of the house
which is occupied by the family, ought, if possible, in so
far to resemble a fairy palace, that every thing in it is kept
in the greatest order; free from every particle of dust;
perfectly clean and ready, without any body, except the
fairy herself, knowing how and when all has been man-
aged.”
“ Yes,” said Helena, “ by all means manage so that your
husband may never have reason to complain, like Captain
Knock—, Knack—, I forget his name, who never observed
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