Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-22
CHINAMEN AND CHINAMEN.
Refinement, Simple Dignity and UnfaiI
ing Sense Of PrOprIety.

II. Shea0it, in the ODerJaad Monthly
l have learned that there are Cinnamon
and Cinnamon. AS we'll judge the Maine
farmer lad by the New York city arab as
the well. bred, honest, steady young fell
low from the rice farms up The river from
Canton, by the Hong Kcng street coolie
or dock rat. Most people are quite with.
out discrimination in selecting a Chinese
workman, and seem 10 think 1t is pure
luck whether they get clesr-skinned,
bright-eyed boy, modest, intelligent and
Trustworthy. or a hard-lOOking old opium
smoker. 1t is perfectly possible to select
with some certainty; but the only way
know TO do so Is TO be acquainted with
some sensible, trustworthy Cninaman,
and explain to him what you want; and
If IL is his opinion that you will be q far
and agreeable employer, whom he can
feel justified in recOmm nding to his
friends, you will, as soon as he can find
the right man, be very satisfactorily
supplied. But IL you have bad reputa-
ton as an emplOyer--if you are unreason-
able, or bad pay, or unpleasant in your
ways and iDconsiderate Of a servants
feelings, you will be politely told, month
after month, that no suitable boy has vet
been found. For these farmers boys are
sell-Tespecting fellows. They VIII not
take insulting treatment, nor even rough
jokes; they viii not bear aggressions on
their personal dignity. have known one
Of them TO leave place because some ar
ticle Of food was locked up rom him, on
the ground that there WAS only enough To
20 around the family; yet he would, prob
ably, il nothing had been said TO him, have
estimated that some one must 90 without,
and silently relrained from taking any
himself as | have often known them TO
do, even when IL was a fayorite dim.
Many household has been suddenly de-
priyed OF It's very satisfactory cook be-
cause some one had Knocked MIN rudely
or put hands on him roughly. 1t Is worth
while TO note this, in view Of the popular
idea that q Chiuaman will 90 any" here
and endure anything for money. On the
contrary, many OF this class OF Cinnamon
Will throw up paying position and re-
main some time out Of work sooner than
receive indignity.
They are, in iact-I speak from my own
acquaintance among them; others may
have a different eXperience-gentlem
They show instinctively a simple refine
ment and careful breeding. In my own
home We have IN more than dozen years
had only two cooks, handsome young fell
lows from the same village; and In all
these years, spent under the same roof, in
the isolation Of "a country house, / may
say that nave uau pretty thlr OppOrtuni-
" 20 know these boys. And / have found
them both essentially gentlemen. have
never seen "A European foreigner Of their
humble class who approached them in re-
hnement, simple dignity aud untailing
sense Of prOpriety, ! DO not know how
many OF our own boys could 20 10 for
elgn land aEd carry of such a position 50
we'll. In somewhat cruder way, the
farm hands tuat have seen much Of show
the same native refinement aud prOpriety,
though they are often bashful and awk-
ward. Aud do not doubt that they all
have been, IN fact, carefully bred IN their
sin pie homes by painstaking parents.
When they become certain That you in
tend no ridicule, and will listen with en-
tire respect, they will tell you a little
about their homes, and from their frat-
mentary accounts 10 IL easy 10 get Az idea
OF the plain, honest and temperate peas
antry from which they come, and Il 10 AN
idea that must give one a sincere respect
for thcm.