s of true politeness, nor is it a blot on your
deportment to utter a civil "thank you" for a service performed. All
servants should address you as "Sir," and when called should reply "Yes,
sir," and certainly not "All right." Your menservants touch their hats
to you on receiving orders in the open, on being addressed, and upon
your appearance. Encourage your servants now and then by a kind word,
and see that they have good and wholesome food, clean and comfortable
quarters. Once in a while give them a holiday, or an evening off, a cash
remembrance at Christmas, and from time to time some part of your
wardrobe or cast-off clothing. They are just like children, and must be
treated with the rigor and mild discipline which a schoolmaster uses
toward his pupils. In all their movements they should be noiseless and
as automatic as possible in their actions.

And now for particular servants hired by a bachelor:

The _groom_ is, with the exception of the general servant, the first
domestic likely to be in the employ of an unmarried man of moderate
means. When a bachelor becomes a horse owner he can never be too
particular about his turnouts and his liveries. The groom in the city or
at a fashionable watering place should have two liveries--one for dress
occasions and the other for what is known as a "stable suit." The
latter, which is a simple English tweed or whipcord, made with a cutaway
coat of the same material, will answer perfectly well for the country,
where it is ridiculous to have elaborate liveries. A square brown Derby
is worn with this suit, brown English driving gloves, and a white
plastron or coachman's scarf. This flat scarf is the badge of
distinction between the house and stable servant. No tie pin nor
trinkets of any description should be allowed servants. The best dress
livery is a frock coat, single-breasted, of kersey, the color of your
livery; white buckskin riding breeches, top boots, top hat, white
plastron, standing collar, and brown driving gloves. One distinctive
color should be used, not only for your liveries but also for your
traps, as well as one kind of harness. The cockade on the hat is the
privilege abroad of ambassadors; it is bad form. Besides the care of
your horse or horses, your groom must be a species of outside general
servant, ready to go on errands or attend to the numerous duties of a
manservant about a country place. By no means can he be substituted for
a valet, a butler, or an indo