The Florence tribune., 1897-06-19
MAKE GOOD SERVANTS.
The Japanese Are Apt and Effi-
 cient Help.
They Are Careful and Economical, and Do Net Wait fo-Be Roid What They Are to Do,
 But Go to Work.

How do the Japanese compare With the Chinese as seryants?" a gentleman asked of lifelong friend who had had experience with help of both national ities,
 .sThere is no comparison" was there ply s.The Chinese are efficient but they are awfully set in their ways. If you give q Chinaman an order to-;iay he will do that very same thing the neAi day. and every other day, 10 matter how absurd 1t may be, unless expressly told not to do so. A Japanese will use his own judgment and save yeu lot of bother. The Japanese adapt them selves to cur customs very quickly and they are naturally courteous and oblig- ing. They don't mind work, either. l have a friend whose one servant is a Japanese girl, and she does the work of the entire house for less wages than German or Swede would and just as thoroughly.
 What delights me with the Japanese is that they are so careful and econom- ieal," this lady continued. Nothing is ever wasted in the kitchen since Bohma was installed, and my butcher bills are lessened considerably. Then she is always scrubbing up the tables and dressers, and I believe she puts on clean clothing every day. I always see Der washing hanging out late in the afternoon"
 Inquiry discovers that there are great many Japanese in the big cities of the unio1, and that every ship that comes brings a fresh relay of 20 or 30. A Japanese mission established in Brooklyn finds homes for any number of these adventurers. As the new corners, nomatterwhatth their proficiency. or social standing may be, are totally unacquanted with localities. the rate of wages, etc, they gladly accept the dor mestic service which gives them shell ter and food for present needs. The. managers report that those supplied with places invariably give satisfaction. A number of Japanese girls and women who came over to the worlds fair were stranded in the country and have had to support themselves as best they could. All these have taken refuge in b0asework Or have been engaged as sewing maids. They came originally 10 dance CT sing or form part of 8 Japanese booth or domestic interior" !" Their aila, after being dismissed, was to make money enough to return home, but, as is not unusual, they see the ad- vantage of life in America and have de cided to live here
 Of late years many business men have lived for months or years in Japan, having their families in residences. Their Japanese servants have accom- panied them to America and neighbors of these returning absentees. noting the efficiency of their eastern domestics, have gotten them to bring out relatives or friends to serve in like capacity in their households; thus the infection spreads, The Japanese consul in New York has sometimes as many as 25 ap- plications in single day for servants.
 T want d cook and a butler. I hear the Japanese are so thoroughly reli- able" says a seryant-hunting house keeper. You must excuse my trou- bling you.' she adds, as it dawns on her that the consul does not necessarily keep an employment agency.
 "We sometimes find places for our countrymen newly-landed," says the