. American cookery. your year of probation and have foundfor yourself how to do things the easiestand the best way. How are you goingto teach someone else what you havelearned? Here you have your firstmaid, let us say, and she may be as gooda maid as you can ever find—providedyou train her the right way. First, have a well-planned system forthe work. If you find later that this par-ticular maid can do one thing in shortertime, another in longer time than yoursystem called for, change the system tosuit. The system will help you so longas you adapt it to your needs and donot try to adapt the nee


. American cookery. your year of probation and have foundfor yourself how to do things the easiestand the best way. How are you goingto teach someone else what you havelearned? Here you have your firstmaid, let us say, and she may be as gooda maid as you can ever find—providedyou train her the right way. First, have a well-planned system forthe work. If you find later that this par-ticular maid can do one thing in shortertime, another in longer time than yoursystem called for, change the system tosuit. The system will help you so longas you adapt it to your needs and donot try to adapt the needs to it. Say,for instance, that an emergency arises,that you are ill or that unexpected com-pany arrives on the day usually set asidefor the cleaning of the silver and thearranging of the pantry. Any suchemergency will mean extra work for themaid and the sensible thing to do is toput off the work for the day until a bet-ter time, instead of wearing the maid outdoing it in addition to the emergencywork. One of the


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