The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-10

! turn of the master or mistress of the
house, it is time enough TO wiring the
necks of the unfortunates and shove them
into the boiling pot or roasting pan, that
seems but TO accentuate a certain
! toughness which all cooked meat freshly
Killed possesses never visited our kitch-
i en- oftener than necessary.
Good servants in Manila get eight 10
ten Mexican dollars per month, or four
10 nve in American gold. My head boy
got So, was married, had TWO children and
bought ali his own food out or this mod
est stipend; ana 1 don't think he stole
from Inc. though he may have done so
from somebody else now and then TO be
sure, ne DeSought advances on his salary
10 bury a brother or sister, as he said,
and II was not until he asked me TO pay
1or burying the same member of his flock
twice that saw the necessity of tabulat-
ing ms Iamily ana checking Oft such as
were defunct.
Although servants are cheap, it is ne
ceSsary 10 have plenty of them, so that
a certain given few shall be ava Ike sTnen
wanted. 1t is always easier to get up
from ones chair, ring a bell on the center
table, ana let a boy come to fetch you a
DOCK from the next room. than to step
across the threshold yourself. In fact
nave even known young foreigner whose
/ beard was no heavier than a schoolboy S,
10 take with nm d barber TO keep his
lace clean shaver during some provincial
trip.
Ones washing bill in Manila is absurd
" cheap, and Tor 81 per month as MANY
W
as o--e cares TO use. Two full suits OF
clothes day, for 80 days. makes an item
OF no mean dimensions. and yet the laun-
ufymdn turns up each week with mis- DaS-
ket 1ull, and perfectly satisfied with his
remuneration, Then, TOO, he washes wen,
ana, although when you see him stand
ing knee-deep in the river Whanglng your
trousers from over his shoulder down on
a nat stone, you fear for the seams and
buttons, nothing ever appears to suffer-
1AIthouSh he builds small bonfire a
II hat lilo
ing pan, and runs it over your white
coats-aI blazing as it is-the result is
excellent, ana scorcned spots are conspic-
uouS only by their absence
one more peculiar institution in the
Philippines is the regulation bed. AND TO
the newly arrived traveller its peculiar rig
ana construction make it command d good
zeal Oh interest, II not respect. 1t Is a
1our-poster, with the posts extending high
enough to support a light roof. from
whose caves hang copious folds of cheap
lace. The bed frame is strung tightly
across with regular chair-bottom cane, a
pillow and a surrounding wall of mosquito
netting. that drops down from the roof,
and is tucked unQer the mating How TO
get into one of these cages is the first
question that presents itself TO the new
arrival, and what to do with yourself
after you have got there, the second. 1t
TOOK me half an hour TO make uD my
mind as to the proper mode of entrance
when l was, tor the first time alone with
a Philippine bend, and | couldn't make
out whether you got in through the roof
or a I the bottom or the sizes. After final
ly pulling away the netting / found the
hard care bottom about as soft as the
L ak fo)r and looked in vain for blankets
sheets and mattresses. In fact il seem
ed as if L had got into an unfurnshed
house. and the more l thought about it,
the longer | stayed awake. At last |
cut my way out Ga the peculiar arrange
ment. dressed and spent the night in a
long cane chair. preferring not to expert
ment further with the sleeping machine
until | found out how il worked.
Later on l Joined the ranks of those
who think none is so comfortable for hot
weather as hard Manila bed with moth
ing but it's pillow and it's piece of straw
mating, and for nights after leaving the
islands l failed to appreciate the return
to soft mattresses and woven springs
In fact, such is the change of life all
around after sailing away from Luzon
that for days and weeks one longs for the |
peculiar conditions that make life easy in
its capital.-New York Post.