HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT.
3661. Have you ever observed what a dislike servants have to any thing cheap. They hate saving their master's money. I tried this experiment with great success the other day.
3662. Finding we consumed a vast deal of soap, I sat down in my thinking chair, and took the soap question into consideration, and found reason to suspect we were using a very expensive article, where a much cheaper one would serve the purpose better.
3663. I ordered half a dozen pounds of both sorts, but took the precaution of changing the papers on which the prices were marked before giving them into the hands of Betty.
3664. "Well, Betty, which soap do you find washes best?"
3665. "Oh, please sir, the dearest, in the blue paper; it makes a lather as well again as the other."