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MY VALET

... jessamine, and looking out on a lovely prospect of plantation, town, aud river. There Madame and her old nurse lived, mistress aud maid, talking French one another, making the two ends meet, and bringing up the handsome, wayward, never-resting boy ; but it was ...

Published: Thursday 17 April 1873
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3671 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Domestic Intelligence

... examination took place reading, arithmetic. Scriptural knowledge, and the nature the duties which the girls, as parlour-ma: Is. kitchenmaids, laundry-maids. &c.. are ex] to understand. and then displaying their proficiency in writing and needlework, in which the ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1873
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2149 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE IDLE LADY'S COMPLAINT

... this fearful malady, which, to avoid ‘Idle disagreeable details, we shall call the Lady’s Complaint.’ Persons who kept one maid-of-all-work were occasionally known to undergo it, and women with two or three rather But the ravages of the disease were among ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 1873
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 787 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MARRYING BENEATH HIM

... discover her—in hall, in mnnor-liouscj parsonage, or; in cottage, then I swear .with Jiing Cophetua, , . , ' 1 ' This beggar maid shall iny queen.* How fa* he was true to his oath the sequel will serve to show. 1 must ask my readers to accompany me, mentally ...

Published: Thursday 04 September 1873
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3463 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL

... Tichborne, identified the defendant as Roger Tichborne. was followed, in his tarn, by Mrs Angelina Horner, formerly lady's maid to Lady Doughty, who also remembered Roger Tichborne well, and had seen him walking with his cousin. Afterwards came Mr Samuel ...

Published: Thursday 30 October 1873
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3076 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

• * An Ebbob which was not detected till too late for correction, occurs in the advertisement headed u Lectures,

... Hand. Also, Stout LAI) an Apprentice. Apply to John Aitchison, Forest Cottage, Selkirk. OOKS. GENERAL SERVANTS, and NURSERY MAIDS WANTED. Inquire at John Grant's Sebtants' Registek, 103 High Street, Galashiels. Estimates wanted for the Cutting of Roods ...

Published: Thursday 26 March 1874
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1020 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WANTED, a Stout LAD as an Apprentice. Apply to John Burns, Engineer, Selkirk. A GOOD JOURNEYMAN TAILOR WANTED. ..

... Could pronde Two Workers if required. Address, Farm Servant, Southern Reporter Office. COOKS, HOUSEMAIDS, and NURSERY MAIDS WANTED. Inquire at John Grant's Servants' Register, 103 High Street, .Galashiels. SOCIAL TEA MEETING.—An Open Meeting will ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1874
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 919 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A MILANESE, AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS

... for the ceremony; after which she withdrew. Carantani, who probably did not know to what lengths despair might carry young maid when love has once seized on her heart, pleased himself with the thoughts of having made her change her resolution. He went ...

Published: Thursday 14 May 1874
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2134 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TENDING THE BABY

... TENDING THE BABY. It used to a pleasant recreation. But that was before mounted cradles and baby-jumpers and nursery-maids were brought into general use. The playthings were cheap, if not homemade, and were exceedingly primitive in their construction ...

Published: Thursday 21 May 1874
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 869 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BARNABY BIGGLES

... assertion. Well, this house is getting positively uncomfortable. Sit where one will there are always draughts. We've tried the parlour, and two bed-rooms, and nursery, and given them upand now the dining-room is quite as bad as the others. I wish I had my own ...

Published: Thursday 27 August 1874
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3269 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE TRIALS OF A GOVERNESS

... personage who had been in close and familiar gossip with her for the last half hour by the brisk fire in her snug little parlour, was a favoured suitor; but upon Mr Marks's advances, the widow had never really smiled. He often took, it is true, a draught ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1874
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4788 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE SOTTHERN REPORTER, JANUARY 7, 1875

... via Annual.) “Well, Tabby, here’s the goose!” exclaimed Mr Twinkleton, as he opened the street door and entered the front parlour, or living-room of his domicile. “And a very fine un too,” responded his faithful spouse ; “I haven’t seen a better since ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1875
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1772 | Page: 4 | Tags: none