Having now explained the method of serving the family dinner the following few suggestions will be sufficient for breakfast and lunch:
If your mistress does not use a tablecloth for breakfast, place the centerpiece exactly in the middle of the table and in the center of this the plate of fruit (or the plant if there is no fruit). Have the under-plate doily at each place and on it put a fruit plate on which is a finger bowl one third full of water, with a fruit knife at the right of the bowl and a spoon at the left on the plate. To the left of this put a small plate for bread and butter or muffins. Knives and forks are placed the same as for dinner, just as many as you need for the meal.
In front of your mistress place the breakfast tray for coffee-urn, hot-water kettle, hot-milk pitcher, and sugar-bowl, but do not bring the hot things in till the family is ready to have breakfast.
Arrange the side-table with any extra things that will be needed.
Keep the butter cool and bring it on at the last moment and place it on one side of the table opposite the bread, which has been freshly cut.
Leave the rest of the loaf of bread in the pantry on a bread-board with the bread-knife ready to cut more slices if needed.
See that the newspaper is ready for the master of the house where he likes to have it.
Look around to see if the sideboard drawers are all tightly closed so as to look neat and trim.
Touch the gong lightly to announce breakfast.
Bring on hot coffee, hot milk, and the hot-water kettle.