| Show domestic service in olden days menial was originally applied ory ocly to domestic servants to show that they were intra moenia moen or between walls as distinguished from the apprentice so called from the french rp to learn until the eight century all imen between 12 years old and 60 and all married acnes under tinder 30 and all single women between beleen 12 and 40 not having any visible livelihood were compellable by two justices to go 0 o into service but at a still earlier date the domestic servart servant see i generally to have been some rc relation lation to the family showing that service had no contemptible meaning in those days and explaining perhaps why so often in old books and plays the ladys maid or the valet Is referred to as their masters master s or mistress lady or gentleman |
