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BUTLER TRAINING
OR
THE FOOTMAN'S DIRECTORY


BUTLER TRAINING
OR
THE FOOTMAN'S DIRECTORY

BOOK - 264 PAGES - 1823

FILE FORMAT - .PDF - 10.7 MB


THE
FOOTMAN'S DIRECTORY,
AND
Butler's Remembrancer;
OR, THE
Advice of Onesimus to My young Friends:
COMPRISING,
HINTS ON THE ARRANGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF THEIR WORK;
RULES FOR SETTING OUT TABLES AND SIDEBOARDS;
THE ART OF WAITING AT TABLE,
AND CONDUCTING LARGE AND SMALL PARTIES;
DIRECTIONS FOR CLEANING PLATE, GLASS, FURNITURE,
CLOTHES, AND ALL OTHER THINGS WHICH COME
WITHIN THE CARE OF A MAN-SERVANT;
AND
ADVICE RESPECTING BEHAVIOUR TO SUPERIORS, TRADESPEOPLE,
AND FELLOW-SERVANTS.
With an Appendix, comprising various useful Receipts and Tables,
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR;
AND SOLD BY J. HATCHARD AND SON,
187, PICCADILLY.
1823.



LETTER
TO
THE PUBLISHER.

HONOURED SIR,
      
I HOPE you will excuse the
liberty I take in writing to you; but having written
a few directions and observations for the use of
Gentlemen's Servants, I was advised, after letting
some of my friends see them, to ask you if you
thought they might be made useful if published.
My endeavour has been to promote the comfort of
those whom I have had the honour to serve, and to
benefit my fellow-servants. Having been often
employed myself in instructing young persons
who had never been out in service before, I imagined
that a set of rules regularly laid down for the
use of domestic servants might be very acceptable,
and save a great deal of trouble to such ladies and
gentlemen as only keep one footman, and are therefore
obliged, if they happen to engage one who is
ignorant, either to instruct him themselves, or
to part with him, even when he may be likely to
suit them very well in the course of a little time.
I thought, likewise, that it would be very useful
to servants who, coming from the country,
may not have had an opportunity of improving
themselves as they might have done in town. I
have endeavoured to direct those for whose service
I have written, not only in their business, but their
conduct and principles, and have given them scriptural
examples respecting their duties, and the
practice of all that is required of them. If you,
Sir, approve the design of my work, and will condescend
to become the publisher of it, I hope
that any defects in its style and execution will be
kindly overlooked by the public, under the consideration
that it is the production of one who has
not had any of the advantages of education, but
who is earnestly desirous of doing all the good that
may come within his power.

I am, honoured Sir,
Your most obedient and humble Servant,
ONESIMUS.


CONTENTS.

Introduction.......... 1
Early Rising.......... 11
Cleaning Boots and Shoes.......... 14
Cleaning Knives and Forks.......... 17
Trimming and cleaning Lamps.......... 23
Cleaning Plate.......... 28
Candlesticks.......... 32
Cleaning Furniture.......... 36
Looking-glasses, Mirrors, Etc........... 41
Brushing the Clothes.......... 44
Hats.......... 51
Gloves.......... 52
The Gentleman's Dressing Room........... 53
Pantry, Etc........... 58
Tea-trays.......... 61
Washing Glasses.......... 62
Decanters.......... 63
Jugs and Basins.......... 66
Cruet Stand.......... 67
Tea and Coffee Urns.......... 68
Plate.......... 70
Breakfast.......... 72
Lunch.......... 75
Decanting Wine.......... 78
Dinner-table.......... 80
Cloth.......... 82
The Side-board.......... 85
The Side-table.......... 88
Dinner.......... 90
The first Course removed.......... 106
Tea.......... 112
Waiting.......... 114
Getting ready for Dinner.......... 123
An Evening Party or Rout.......... 133
Tea and Coffee.......... 136
Announcing Names.......... 137
Supper.......... 140
The Supper-table.......... 142
Supper in the Drawing-room.......... 144
The Kitchen Meals.......... 146
Behaviour to Fellow- servants.......... 149
Dress.......... 160
Behaviour.......... 166
To Butlers.......... 172
Shutting up the House.......... 179
Confidence and Honesty.......... 181
Marketting, paying Bills, Etc........... 188
Answering the Bells and opening the Door.......... 190
Not at Home.......... 194
On going out Visiting.......... 201
Of Knowing Town.......... 210
Delivering and taking out Cards.......... 211
Travelling.......... 212
Watering-places.......... 217
Sundry Things which ought to be attended to.......... 219
Concerning Workmen.......... 221
Making up the Fire.......... 222
Tapping the Beer.......... ib.
Holyday-making.......... 223
Improvement of Time.......... 224
Religion.......... 232
On changing Places.......... 238

APPENDIX.

To make Blacking.......... 245
To render Shoes water-proof.......... ib.
To prevent Snow-water from penetrating Boots or Shoes.......... ib.
To clean Boot-tops white.......... 246
To clean Boot-tops brown.......... ib.
Plate Powder.......... ib.
Another Way.......... 247
To clean plated Articles.......... ib.
To clean Mahogany Furniture.......... ib.
Another Way.......... ib.
Varnish for Furniture.......... ib.
German Polish for Furniture.......... 248
To clean Brass Ornaments.......... ib.
To take Stains out of scarlet Cloth.......... 248
To take Stains out of black Cloth, Silk, Crape, Etc.......... ib.
To take Grease Spots out of Silk.......... ib.
Varnish for old Straw or Chip Hats.......... 249
Wash for Leather Gloves.......... ib.
To clean Gold and Silver Lace.......... ib.
To clean gilt Buckles, Chains, Ect........... ib.
To manage Razor Strops.......... ib.
To preserve Clothes from Moths, Ect........... 250
To clean japanned Tea and Coffee Urns.......... ib.
To mix a Salad.......... ib.
To make Toast and Water.......... ib.
To make Punch.......... 251
To make Ginger Beer.......... ib.
To make Spruce Beer.......... ib.
To make Coffee.......... ib.
To cure ropy Beer.......... 252
Excellent Substitute for Table Beer.......... ib.
To try the Goodness of Spirits.......... ib.
To know whether a Bed be damp or not.......... ib.
On warming Beds.......... ib.
On mending Fires.......... 253
Remedy against Fleas.......... ib.
To prevent being Bug-bitten.......... ib.
To destroy Bugs.......... ib.
To kill Flies.......... ib.
To destroy Rats or Mice.......... ib.
To correct bad Smells.......... ib.
To extinguish Fire in a Chimney.......... 253
To bring Horses out of a Stable in case of Fire.......... 254
Fire Escape.......... ib.
To cure Burns and Scalds.......... ib.
To cure a bruised Eye.......... ib.
To cure a sprained Ankle or Wrist.......... ib.
Remedy for a sore Throat.......... 255
To make a saline Mixture.......... ib.
Cure for the Toothache.......... ib.
Acute Rheumatism.......... 256
A Table of Priority or Precedency among Ladies ; intended as a Guide to Servants in waiting on them, to serve them according to their respective Ranks.......... ib.
A Table of Precedency among Gentlemen, who ought to be served according to their respective Ranks.......... 258
Laws respecting Servants.......... 259
Table of Expenses, Income, Etc..........263
Calculation of Posting.......... 264




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