The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-01

l 10 the thealter, and sam, as usual, nau gone to Chinatown, the fire alarm rang,
 and Sam recognized the number as be-
 ing in the district where his employers | lived. He immediately left his friends
 and his game and rushed home. When the family returned from the theater
 they found him on the stable roof, wet and shivering He was playing the
 hose on the roof and putting out the flying brands which the wind carried from the burning building opposite. He had been there two hours fighting
 the fire. His act was remarkable be-
 cause all Chinese have a horror of fire,
 and would rather lose all they possess
 than come within smelling distance of
 it.
 Occasionally the cook will conceive
 a preference for one member of the
 family, and this preference is shown by
 covert attentions while serving at ta-
 ble. In one case, a Chinaman was em-
 ployed in a family, member of which,
 young lady, went to work every
 morning and ate her breakfast alone
 and much earlier than the rest of the
 household. The cook in serving her
 would invariably make an excuse to re-
 main in the dining room, and although
 he would not speak to her, he showed
 the keenest appreciation if she seemed to enjoy her breakfast. One day the housewife in looking over the butcher | bill, discovered that she had been | charged with several delicacies which | she could not remember having served | at table. She called the cook, and | ,e,ya to her bell she asked: How is it, Sam, that we are charged with quail and oysters and reed birds several times in this bill? Pm sure haven't had any The working member of the family had entered the room in time to hear k the query and interEupted to say that she had been served with some deli cious broiled oysters that morning for and a quail the day before. Sam looked responsibility at the speak CT and left the room without explain ing. He had been ordering dainties for the object of his choice while the rest of the family lived on palmer fare. That is the nearest approach to dishon- asty, if you would call it by SO harsh a term, that I ever heard of in Chinese cook.
 Although Chinese cooks outnumber white cooks by about three to one, they are all men. The only case of Chi lese woman being employed in do- nestle capacity that I ever heard of was in the family of lady very much in Chinese mission work. The girl lad been brought from China when about thirteen years old, and was sold to Chinese farmer. He kept her IS @ drudge for several years, treating her very cruelty, and sold the two little girls she had borne him when they were seven and nine years old. Shortly liter the sale of the children he felt hat he was sufficiently we'll off to be entitled to a little foot wife, and was making arrangements to sell the wife who had helped him amass his money She learned of his plan and ran away rom him, begging protection from the mission. The girl, who In spite of the ,lave's life she had led, was very come y and spoke excellent English, soon won her way into the hearts of the wo- nen connected with the mission, and vas taught to read and write and later vas engaged by this lady to work in Ter house, and with a little training ioon became an excellent cook. The yirl had an aversion for her own coun- rymen on account of the treatment she lad received at their hands, and made very effort to appear thoroughly to adopting cor ets and wearing bang. After two ears service in the family she met an Americanized Chinaman, one who had acrificed his queue, and thereby lost III chance of returning to his own land. , Ie was a very prosperous merchant, md having met Emma, which name he girl adopted with the rest of her concluded that he would like to marry her, and asked permission to pay his addresses En- na at first demurred, but finally con mded that he was only half a China nan after all, so they were married. Inc dressed for the ceremony in white, with the regulation veil and orange blossoms, and he in an irreproachable ress suit The wedding took place at he house of Emma's employer, a Uni arian minister officiating; and after a hort honeymoon they went housekeep- ng on the American plan"
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