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MOTLEY NOTES: After the Lull

... day by day, on one s tear-off calendar. When you remember that these quotations influ ence an entire household, from the parlour-maid the first thing in the morning to the master of the house the last thing at night, for aa entire year, you will admit, ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1241 | Page: 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... conferring rank and title upon domestics. They are simply asking for trouble. It will be all very well to call a house maid a Captain, a parlour-maid a Major, and a cook a Colonel but what about the general They cannot promote her to be Field Marshal, because ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 850 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE STAGE FROM THE STALLS: Nightbirds

... evening. Then there is Miss Muriel George, from the Follies, a very clever little comedienne, who makes a most entertaining parlour-maid and Mr. C. H. Workman and Mr. Tom A. Shale contribute much to the humours of the piece. The Music. But il .is ,for its ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1093 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Hints for the Police

... My, Dear Friend, I have been trying the scheme of marks for my servants that you were good enough to suggest. Helen, the parlour-maid, began wonderfully well so well, indeed, that, by the end of the fifth day, I found myself nearly a sovereign in her debt ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1134 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

A SUICIDE THAT FAILED

... that she was a pitiful, impotent, comic thing, and began softly to cry. To her, after an interval, came Annie, the second parlour-maid, with a tray. Oh, Miss Aggie, said she, I 've brought your tea, Miss Aggie. And your mother says, Miss Aggie, that as ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2751 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES

... the exact equivalent of everything that can be procured at the Blue Antelope For example, over the mantelshelf in the bar-parlour of the Antelope you will find the following stanza-- Men of Mudbay, drink together Never mind the wind or weather Now a long ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 997 | Page: 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE EQUALISERS

... their origin. Oh said Melita. I stammered explanations. But but where 's the housekeeper There isn't one. Your maid, then There isn't a maid, either. I 've been doing the work of the place myself. They were fateful words. My tones were finely nonchalant ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3195 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

The work

... useful for dining-rooms. More over, they make no dirt or dust, and therefore greatly lighten the work of both house and parlour maid. ht&v-j 1 Li:1 Write for Booklet No. LF 202, post free from the British Commercial Gas Association C 16 4T, Victoria 5/ ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 103 | Page: 48 | Tags: Illustrations 

FOR A SONG!

... grandee was by no means such a simpleton as to jest about hell to his peasant folk. He gazed very gravely at his daughter's maid. You should not have sworn for a trifle, he said, but if he is faithless you are absolved. Ah, yes; if he is faithless ...

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Published: Wednesday 10 September 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1728 | Page: 44 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE STAGE FROM THE STALLS: THE MONTH-TO-LIVE MARRIAGE: HAWTREY AT THE TOP OF HIS FORM; The Doctors Don't Differ

... servants sometimes in our days there is more receiving than giving such notices it is easier to get a wife than a cook or parlour-maid. By-the-Dye, 11 anyone Happens to know ol a cook but I fancy that this is the wrong column for gdV^rJisements of this class ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1089 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE CARD: AN ECCENTRIC ROMANCE

... the Card reposed in his breast-pocket. He was contemplating immediate flight, when the door flew open, disclosing a chic parlour maid, with an elegant hall as background. She smiled at him, evidently filled with the annual spirit of goodwill. He, having ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1984 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations