The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31

. say, ne nj once accepts and cliuch"s the
arrangement.
:" An light. I do all same Hop Foug.
Six dollar one mon'."
From one to half a dozen Cinnamon
will loiter round kitchen if they dare,
and one may feel certain that every
Chinese of them is hungry. To be hun
cry seems, indeed, their normal condi-
tion. for they live by scores in their
wash houses aud other haunts, subsist-
ing on the smallest modicum of food,
IN order to save money. When they
drop into our kitchens to call on COM
Jade, therefore, one may be certain that
those bright little sloping eyes are on
the alert for forage. We have happened
suddenly down stairs and found such a
visitor in the closet, his hand in the
sugar bowl. A neighbor met another
emerging from her pantry, eating pie.
When thus confronted, they laugh and
leave Immediately. Not word is said
i'll self-defense, and the housekeeper's
consolation is, that they do not dare to
take any but small quantities. But it
makes housekeeping with them not a
state of entire confidence. 1t is quite a
question whether or not to put things
under lock and key. If trusted, they
seem to put themselves somewhat upon
honor, not to allow, at all events, any
large amounts to be abstracted. This.
and the fact that no drudgery of locking
can really prevent theft, determines
most housekeepers, we think, in favor
Of open closets. Whether this ingrained
habit of pilfering is at once eradicated
In those who accept Christianity, we do
not know ; but we have been told by
returned missionaries that they have to
settle the same question, with about the
same solution.
We are often reminded of the old ge.
ography which used to tell us that the
Chinese are very vain people. They
come here with a secret ense of suDeri-
ority TO us all as barbarians, and
secret contempt for women in particu-
lar az inferior beings, which makes it
Lard for them to submit to the control
OF the mistress of family. Therefore
they become "uppish quite as readily
as other servants. Company came IN
expectedly to Lunch, and Doc slammed
and banged forth his vexations in the
most approved Irish fashion.
why you no tell me they comol"
Rahectlng with extreme satisfaction
that we owed him a little money, we
slid:
Doc! you too much talkee Be
good boy; get lunch, heap good /"
Doc subsidized: his lunch was ''heap
good, and his manner heap sulky, like
wise.
They readily learn to cook, and some
of them excel in the art In the lam
dry ard as walters they are also good.
Chamber work they do not take to, and
they arr rs really to slight it as other
servants. AZ We have before intimated.
much of their value depends on the
w"y they were taught By whoever taught
them first.
There is one thing which probably
would never enter the mind Of Eastern |
people, III connection with Chinese SER
wants, but which is true everywhere in |
California among those who employ |
them. No matter how good Chinaman
may be, ladies' never leave their chill
dren With them, especially little girls.
On first coming here, we frequently |
met very lovely lady who always was
accompanied by two little girls, eight
aud four years Of age. If she were ont,
riding or walking, making a call or |
spending the day, the little girls were
always with her. We asked why she
was always so encumbered?
ooh she has only a Chinaman, and
she could not leave her children with
him."
"But, why not' Is he not convert
ed Chinaman9" for we happened to
have heard that he had joined the
church.
"Ies; but she does not like to leave
hem; she always takes them with her."
A lady was here from the country.
Why so short visi5?"
"Oh, we have only Chinaman, and
nv husband cannot leave the children,
You know, and I must go homo and re-
ieve him."
"Has that excellent Chinaman left
7ou1'
sob, no; we have him yet; but we
ever leave the children (three girls
md boy) one single moment alone. If
ny husband goes out to take walk
7hile am gone, he has TO take them
With him, SO you can see what bondage
90 is IN during my absence. ."-,Scrib.
ler'S Monthly.