Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-10-01
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| CLOSE MOUTHED SERVANTS.-W nile tAef
is to day a great hue and cry against the Chi
ness it amounts to nothing more than . cry
and the Mcngolian continues his avocation q
calmly as if no objection had been made t
his presence among US. If he were able t.
read the newspapers the probabilities are tina
he would gather up his luggage in fear ant
trembling and betake himtelf to another
country Immediately. As it is, he continues
to enjoy eur glorious climate and industri
ously earns what wages he can command
The APPEAL could name scores of families il
town where Chinese servants are employed
and the Chinese are gradually pushing the
American, Irish and German women out Of
employment. There must be some good rea.
son why Chinese are preferred. The wages Of
the Chinese are trife lower, but there il
much that is against him. He is wasteful and
extravsgant, is often q frequenter Of opium
deas, and has the scent of the drug about his
clothes; he is almost invariably a thief and
steals from the larder of his employer to feed
his innumerable and impecuneous cousins.
Even while his wages are lower his wasteful-
ness and thievery makes him dearer BY at
least $40 month than a white servant girl.
In spite of this he is in demand, and we think
We can come pretty near explaining the rea-
son. A servant girl sees everything, hears
everything and tells everything that is going
on. A chinaman is a. close mouthed as clam
at low tide, he sees nothing that he is not wa mt
ed to see, and if all the crimes on the calen-
dar were committed under his nose he would
never mention the fact Q anybody. Here is
where bis value a. a servant comes in. If
young lady is receiving caller in the evening
the white servant Clues her eye and ear to the
key hole and the next day tells the servant in
the next house all that she sees or hears, with
Embellishments and q lot Of COS
sip which gathers in bulk a. it travels and in
twenty fsur hours is retailed all over the
IF a married man comes home
and has words with his wife in An argument
that is settled in five minutes, the servant
girl makes for the next house in dead run
10 state that the persons on whom she de-
eends for her beard and lodging attempted to
Kill each other. Her ear is a capacious depes-
tory for every word spoken in a household,
md her mouth belches scandal like a Gattling
.un its grape shst. If she is discharged for
general shiftlessness and lazyness she tells the
'ext employer that she left Mr.. So.and so
because she was starved to death and made to
leep in . room that was overrun with rats
nd bsdbuxs. Half the arrangements be-
ween families and rows with neighbors come |
rem these professional msngers and indefati-
able peddlers of petty tittle-tattle They
cen to think that part of their duties is to |
ratch everything that gees on about the |
ouse and put it on bulletin board at the |
ront gate. The Chinese servant, with all |
10 thieviahness, extravaganza and bad habits |
J preferred to prying and chattering white |
ervants who can never be made to know that |
er sphere has its limits. A close nus covers
multitude of sins