Servants in decently-conducted houses are seldom over-worked. The men-servants in particular, very commonly suffer in health from the want of out-door exercise, and of anywhere to go, and anything to do, when they are off duty. Quarrelling, smashing china, flirting, with sudden and inconvenient changes soon after ...
[B]etter do without the charwoman. She is more irresponsible than a house-servant, and less easy to supervise. She breaks, and leaves the blame on others. She not seldom brings in diseases, and carries away soap and candle-ends, and odd tea-cups ...
Mary Eliza Haweis, The art of housekeeping: a bridal garland, 1889