ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF FAITHFUL DOMESTIC SERVANTS IN NEW-YORK. NEW-YORK. PRINTED BY D. FANSHAW, AT THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY'S HOUSE, No. 87 Nassau-street. FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. &c. No one can be ignorant, at least no house-keeper needs to be told, that we are very dependant upon our Domestic Servants for a large share of our daily family comforts. Indeed, it may be safely asserted, that if all the other arrangements and connexions of a family are as happy as fall generally to the lot of humanity, bad Servants are alone sufficient, if not to destroy, at least to mar, much of the calm happiness of domestic life. That the number of faithful and respectable servants in our city, has, latterly, been quite inadequate to our wants, is a fact as notorious as it is lamentable. This arises, partly from the very genius of our government, partly from the rapid growth of our city, partly from the facility with which a comfortable subsistence may be earned, in many stations which the pride of servants leads them to consider as being more reputable than their own; but mainly, from a love of incessant change, which characterizes nearly all, and attaches to many who would otherwise be accounted good servants. This restlessness of mind, and love of change, is especially true of the young and unwary female servant, which class constitutes a large portion of our domestics. By frequent removals the desire to change is increased, and |