Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-02-26
House Maids and Dang Foo.

HOUSE MaluS ana Dang Foo.
The CdH notes some remarkable
facts connected with tho employ
ment of Chinese servants, but one
OF the most impoi tant it fails to
touch upon, is the extreme Difference
shown to the Chinese servant by
some of his employers. Heis petted
and pampered, and smiled upon, his
duties lessened and his way made
pleasant, as If the little service he
renders was an indispensable that
could not be supplied by any other
race or person. We confess to n
sense Of humiliation in witnessing
some Instances of this subserviency
OF the mistress of tho household to
her copper servant. ooh
Dang Foo will leave if / don't treat
him well, is all the excuse made for
this abnegation and subserviency to,
not an idol, but o worshipper Of
idols.
Now let us see what the Cal SAYS:
You have paid $50 month to
saifron-hued servants, and have
asked young woman to perform the
same domestic duties for from SO TO
Sl5. You have fixed Johns hours
of labor from Ga. NJ. tor. NJ. and
required of your female help three
or four hours extra time in taking
care of the babies while you went TO
church or the sociable. and then con-
slider their time, cares and attentions
only worth half as much. For
shame!
Is not a womaD's work worth as
much as a mans, and shouldn't il be
more valuable than that of n
heather?
Men who are getting $50 and 500
month for six or seven hours work
a day, think it is simply outrageous
to pay over $50 month TO their
domestics, working fifteen hours a
day.
When you have given every nd
vantage to heathen help in the past
pushed aside the female domeslics
willing to work. is it any wonder
they shrink from your call?
The woman who tolls in the
kitchen as a wage-worker, doing
duties which your pride stays you
from performing, should bo called
as much one of humanity's jewels
as tho painted, powdered dudino
spending her time in idleness.
Well said, friend Cal; and you
may have added that many of the
girls VINO are willing to do house
work are the peers Of their employ.
ers In intelligence, refinement and
virtue, and theirs would be no great
condescension, except what might
be involved in the temporary rela-
tive station of the parties, for the
mistress to treat her maid as we'll nj
least as she does her heathen pet.
But may it not be possible that these
very graces Of womanhood servo 10
check rather than advance tho pros.
poets OF employment? Who can
fathom the secret motives OF human
nature-especially Of the fair sex
when We see SO much OF jealousy
and envy, SO much of inhumanity,
SO much uncharitableness aud want
OF true Christian feeling, cropping
out on oil sides
Try to elevate, instead OF debase.
those who may be, in the strange
jumbo OF life, for the time, under
your patronage. Don't be selfish.
Remember they may have rs true o
heart as you; that it may be quite AZ
susceptible OF tenderness aud af.
fection; that it may be chilled by
just such rude blasts as would iar
your sensitive nature. A kind word
Is often better than gold; IL 10 a
panacea for many ills that the ply
sician's draught cannot reach. Il
costs but little, il the mine is once
opened and you take tho trouble 10
find the lead. When found, you
will probably follow il up with the
enthusiasm OF the miner, for il will
bring you blessings better than even
fine gold.
1t Is the treatment of household
servants that has impolled 80 many
girls to accept much less wages for
harder service, as is reported by the
Commissioner of Labor Of New
York, the result Of whose INVESTING.
tons is given in another column.
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