The record-union., 1893-03-07
THE JAPANESE
The Curiously Worded Advertisements
They Get Up.

The thousands of little brown men from
the Mikado's kingdom who honor San
ranclsco with their presence have made
advertising an art. They all want 10
work, and very few of them are particular
what their labor may be, so long as it
gives them opportunity to satisfy their
only apparent ambition-to study.
Centuries of servility and serfdom have
pred IN the little men politeness that is
AKIN TO obsequlouSnesS, and they express
1t as best they can in the poor English at
their command. One is, "a japanese
good school boy who wants a situation to
stay long time and where he can get
school time" He speaks English iluently,
at least he tries to say so, and will give
the pleasure of his company to whoever
wishes ii at the rate of 81 a week. Like
his fellow, he is industrious, studious and
pIodding, and will pore over his books
for hours. The good home" which he
prefers to 'high wages' will undoubtedly
reap advantages from his cultivated
mlnd' and entertaining conversation.
Another OF his countrymen is "a gentle
and faithful WAITER" with the best OF
references, but will work only in a small
family. Still another is the Japanese
nice boy" who will cook breakfast and
lunch, bat draws the line at dinner-in
view of the fact, probably, that his en-
ployer may need him to grace the board
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japanese strong boy" who will wash
the dishes for a consideration, and the
japanese young and obedient boy"
who wants job anywhere from ranch
to the saloon.
There are scores of Japanese reliable
boys" who are devoted exclusively" to
all kinds of house-cleaning, especially
washing windows at five cents apiece, an
alarming cut on current rates very pain
full to the other ''devotees" in that par
ticular branch of labor.
They are honest, careful, mice" and
hardly without an exception offensiVeiy
well educated" They will cook, wash,
clean, and do all the various duties of the
house. They will clean saloons, milk
cows, make candy, work as carpenters
or on ranches, and one particularly COM
petent young man offers his obedience
and services as druggist. Work in the
laundry possesses no power to trighten
them, and many even will fight the
temptation to study when they are
pressed to go into the fields as laborers.
In varions parts of the city they have
established bureaus of information and
employment offices, where the uuem-
ployed congregate and compare notes on
English composition.
Some, however, have been there long
enough, judging from their advertise
ments, to become particular. A few have
the forethought to declare, in addition to
their other qualifications, that they have
experience and will work only in select
families. One of them will take his
chances only in ''high-toned" family.
lie fails to explain just what high-toned
family may be, but he announces that he
is the happy possessor OF dress coat and
good references.
Another of his experienced fellows is
well educated, and will go only into
store or an office, or, by strong effort in
the direction of selt-sacrifce, into a mice
family The want columns are filled
with the curious applications of the little
men. Money with them is no object.
agreeable surroundings all, and that is 4
what they try to tell prospective employ
ers, who probably have not the slightest
interest in the fact.