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اپنی تربیت کا کام ملازماؤں پر مت چھوڑیں
بچے محبت اور توجہ کے تشنہ اور بھوکے ہوتے ھیں، جہاں سے ملتی ھے وھیں کے .ہو جاتے ہیں!
A lady's maid is a female personal attendant who waits on the lady of the house, and is a position very similar to a gentleman's valet.
Traditionally, the lady's maid was not as high-ranking as a lady's companion, who was a retainer rather than a servant, but the rewards included room and board, travel and somewhat improved social status. In the servants' hall, a lady's maid took precedence akin to that of her mistress. In Britain, a lady's maid would be addressed by her surname by her employer, while she was addressed "Miss" by junior servants or when visiting in another servants' hall.
A lady's maid's specific duties included helping her mistress with her appearance, including make-up, hairdressing, clothing, jewellery, and shoes. A lady's maid would also remove stains from clothing; sew, mend, and alter garments as needed; bring her mistress breakfast in her room; and draw her mistress's bath. However, she would not be expected to dust or sweep, duties which would instead be performed by a housemaid.
Most ladies, who can really afford the luxury of a maid, keep one. Sometimes the parlourmaid acts in that capacity, or the head-nurse in smaller households, or the lady may share her maid with her daughter or daughters; and there are some, who, though well able to afford to keep a lady’s-maid, are too independent to accept the services of one, preferring to do everything for themselves. Ladies’-maids are of various kinds, some very clever and some the reverse. If ladies keep a maid at all, however, they may as well have a really good one, and she, to deserve her name, must be thoroughly competent to perform the duties of her place. She must understand hair-dressing, dressmaking, packing, arranging the toilets for dinner parties, balls, etc., etc., must be possessed of good taste, must understand the care of dresses, boots, shoes, gloves, hats, bonnets, and the thorough art of repairing all clothes. She must be honest, quick, willing, clean, tidy and methodical, patient, and contented. Now it’s all very well to say she must be this, that, and the other, but it is not so easy to find combined in one person all these desirable qualities.
In large establishments the maid is often a Frenchwoman or a German. A first-class maid, or one who considers herself as such, expects various perquisites: her mistress’s discarded dresses, bonnets, mantles, jackets, and so on, and does as little as possible of the more menial work of her situation, giving herself too often “airs,” as the saving is. Such a person is a nuisance in a house, and often ends, if kept, in being really almost mistress instead of the lady, counting on her cleverness in some particular branch of her duties to keeping her situation. Others, again, are faithful, obliging, rendering willing service, and ready to do anything, not only for the mistress, but also for her guests. Such are not very often met with, but when they are found, meet with well-deserved praise.
Foreign maids, excepting Swiss, are not generally useful in a small house: they are extravagant, and too grand to accommodate themselves to the ways of the household, if it is not what they term ” a good place.” With a very wealthy mistress, who considers style everything, and does not mind paying for it, they are in their element.
The lady’s-maid’s duties are much as follows; she rises in good time, brings her mistress her early morning cup of tea, and arranges her room, prepares her bath— the housemaid bringing the cans of water, hot or cold— and lays in readiness everything which will be required for dressing, then she retires until rung for; this time she will employ in brushing and looking over the things worn yesterday. Then she has her own breakfast in the “housekeeper’s room,” and is ready to attend to her mistress directly her bell summons her, when she dresses her hair, removes her dressing-gown, and puts on her dress, doing all the finishing touches to her toilet.
When her mistress has gone downstairs, she puts her room tidy, and frequently—always in small households—helps the housemaid in making the beds. She puts cut all the things in readiness which may be required for walking, riding, or driving throughout the day, assisting her mistress to dress on all occasions, also in taking off her things on her return home again. She lays out the dress and things required for the evening toilet, and is ready waiting for her mistress when she comes up to dinner, assists her to dress, and, when that business is over, puts the room in thorough order before she leaves it. If her mistress is out, she sits up for her, and assists her to undress, putting away, with care, the dress, ornaments, flowers, and all the rest of the wearing apparel worn.
She has to keep her mistress’s wardrobe in repair, mend gloves, sew buttons on boots directly she sees such
اپنی تربیت کا کام ملازماؤں پر مت چھوڑیں
بچے محبت اور توجہ کے تشنہ اور بھوکے ہوتے ھیں، جہاں سے ملتی ھے وھیں کے .ہو جاتے ہیں!
A lady's maid is a female personal attendant who waits on the lady of the house, and is a position very similar to a gentleman's valet.
Traditionally, the lady's maid was not as high-ranking as a lady's companion, who was a retainer rather than a servant, but the rewards included room and board, travel and somewhat improved social status. In the servants' hall, a lady's maid took precedence akin to that of her mistress. In Britain, a lady's maid would be addressed by her surname by her employer, while she was addressed "Miss" by junior servants or when visiting in another servants' hall.
A lady's maid's specific duties included helping her mistress with her appearance, including make-up, hairdressing, clothing, jewellery, and shoes. A lady's maid would also remove stains from clothing; sew, mend, and alter garments as needed; bring her mistress breakfast in her room; and draw her mistress's bath. However, she would not be expected to dust or sweep, duties which would instead be performed by a housemaid.
Most ladies, who can really afford the luxury of a maid, keep one. Sometimes the parlourmaid acts in that capacity, or the head-nurse in smaller households, or the lady may share her maid with her daughter or daughters; and there are some, who, though well able to afford to keep a lady’s-maid, are too independent to accept the services of one, preferring to do everything for themselves. Ladies’-maids are of various kinds, some very clever and some the reverse. If ladies keep a maid at all, however, they may as well have a really good one, and she, to deserve her name, must be thoroughly competent to perform the duties of her place. She must understand hair-dressing, dressmaking, packing, arranging the toilets for dinner parties, balls, etc., etc., must be possessed of good taste, must understand the care of dresses, boots, shoes, gloves, hats, bonnets, and the thorough art of repairing all clothes. She must be honest, quick, willing, clean, tidy and methodical, patient, and contented. Now it’s all very well to say she must be this, that, and the other, but it is not so easy to find combined in one person all these desirable qualities.
In large establishments the maid is often a Frenchwoman or a German. A first-class maid, or one who considers herself as such, expects various perquisites: her mistress’s discarded dresses, bonnets, mantles, jackets, and so on, and does as little as possible of the more menial work of her situation, giving herself too often “airs,” as the saving is. Such a person is a nuisance in a house, and often ends, if kept, in being really almost mistress instead of the lady, counting on her cleverness in some particular branch of her duties to keeping her situation. Others, again, are faithful, obliging, rendering willing service, and ready to do anything, not only for the mistress, but also for her guests. Such are not very often met with, but when they are found, meet with well-deserved praise.
Foreign maids, excepting Swiss, are not generally useful in a small house: they are extravagant, and too grand to accommodate themselves to the ways of the household, if it is not what they term ” a good place.” With a very wealthy mistress, who considers style everything, and does not mind paying for it, they are in their element.
The lady’s-maid’s duties are much as follows; she rises in good time, brings her mistress her early morning cup of tea, and arranges her room, prepares her bath— the housemaid bringing the cans of water, hot or cold— and lays in readiness everything which will be required for dressing, then she retires until rung for; this time she will employ in brushing and looking over the things worn yesterday. Then she has her own breakfast in the “housekeeper’s room,” and is ready to attend to her mistress directly her bell summons her, when she dresses her hair, removes her dressing-gown, and puts on her dress, doing all the finishing touches to her toilet.
When her mistress has gone downstairs, she puts her room tidy, and frequently—always in small households—helps the housemaid in making the beds. She puts cut all the things in readiness which may be required for walking, riding, or driving throughout the day, assisting her mistress to dress on all occasions, also in taking off her things on her return home again. She lays out the dress and things required for the evening toilet, and is ready waiting for her mistress when she comes up to dinner, assists her to dress, and, when that business is over, puts the room in thorough order before she leaves it. If her mistress is out, she sits up for her, and assists her to undress, putting away, with care, the dress, ornaments, flowers, and all the rest of the wearing apparel worn.
She has to keep her mistress’s wardrobe in repair, mend gloves, sew buttons on boots directly she sees such
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