always done abroad, and is a convenient custom.

Never allow a female servant to enter a parlour. If all the
male domestics are gone out, it is better that there should
be no attendance at all.

Some ladies are in the habit of amusing their friends with
accounts of the difficulty of getting good servants, etc.
This denotes decided ill breeding. Such subjects should never
be made topics of conversation.

If a servant offends you by any grossness of conduct, never
rebuke the offence upon the spot, nor indeed notice it at all
at the time; for you cannot do it without anger, and without
giving rise to a _scene._ Prince Puckler Muskaw was, very
properly, turned out of the Travellers' Club for throwing a
fork at one of the waiters.

In the house of another, or when there is any company present
in your own, never converse with the servants. This most
vulgar, but not uncommon, habit, is judiciously censured in
that best of novels,--the Zeluco of Dr. Moore.

CHAPTER XIV. FASHION.

Fashion is a tyranny founded only on assumption. The
principle upon which its influence rests, is one deeply based
in the human heart, and one which has long been observed and
long practised upon in every department of life. In the
literary, the religious, and the political world, it has been