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Rh hair and wears glasses. People are always mistaking her for an aunt. I wrote out a set of rules for Nellie, tacked them up over the sink in the butler's pantry, and told her to study them during the week before Tom and Elise were due to arrive. Here's a copy of them:

When a meal is ready don't stand at the foot of the stairs and holler "Dinner!" Come to me and say in a low, well modulated voice, "Dinner is served, Miss Lucy."

Be sure and call me Miss Lucy, and Tom, Mister Tom. Never plain Tom or plain Lucy. And so on through the family.

When I ring the bell during a meal, don't just stick your head in through the swinging-door but enter all-over and find out what is wanted.

Don't offer a last biscuit or piece of cake and say, "There's more in the kitchen."

If any member of the family asks for any other member of the family, don't say, "They're in the barn, or down-cellar, or upstairs," but go quietly and find them yourself.

Be sure and put ice-water every night into Mrs. Vars' bedroom when you turn down the bed.

If you get the hiccups when waiting on the table,