Old Time Servants
Servants were servants away back in 1568, just as varied, in fact, as the woman who bossed them, and both were muoh as they are in this end of the century year. Servants were fined in those days for eaoh trivial offense. A penny was thought enough to fine a servant who lef t open a door that should have been closed, and the same fine did service for missing family prayers or leaviug the beds of the house uninade later than 8 o'clock in the morniug. The cook might have a beau, but she had to pay a fine every time he carne of a penny. If such rules were enforced now, madam would find herself
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Ann Arbor Argus
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