The servant's behaviour book : $b or, Hints on manners and dress for maid servants in small households

How it begins

Never let your voice be heard by the ladies and gentlemen of the house except when necessary, and then as little as possible. This piece of advice cannot be too well remembered. It is needed by almost all young girls on their first entering service, and great is the annoyance thus caused to their employers. Every girl who wishes to live in a gentleman’s family must learn, sooner or later, to keep guard over her tongue, and it is best to begin at once, before her neglect has called upon her the reproofs of the family.