Thomas Grattan also says, “The native Americans are the best servants in the country.”—Civilized America, I., 260.
[160] A Year’s Residence in the United States, p. 201.
Charles Mackay also says that “service is called ‘help,’ to avoid wounding the susceptibility of free citizens.”—Life and Liberty in America, I., 42.
[161] Domestic Manners of the Americans, I., 73.
[162] Society, Manners, and Politics in the United States, p. 284.
[163] He adds the interesting facts that cooks usually received $1.50 per week; chambermaids, $1.25; gardeners, $11 per month, and waiters $10 per month.—Recollections, pp. 299-300.
[164] The Englishwoman in America, pp. 43, 214.
[165] Civilized America, I., 256-258.
[166] Ibid., I., 259.
[167] Civilized America, I., 264.