The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-31
A W0MAN'S WORD
Writes on the Trying
Problem Of Servants.
Many Difficulties to BE- Faced Great feed
of Trailing - Organization Neces
sary Sympathy.

Editor p. G. A. In your semi
weekly issue of the Hawaiian Gazette,
May 5th, | notice an article in regarl
to cooks.
| wished to write TO you at the time,
to thank you for giving your attention
to what is getting to be very serious
matter, for the housekeepers of the
Hawaiian Islands, but my washman
was new and my cook very fresh, in
more ways than one, so when night
came | hadn't strength left to WELD
pen.
Your sympathy (and we seldom get
much Of that, together with your val
liable suggestions as to the manner of
lettering conditions, should not pass
unnoticed. Excellent articles are on
every hand treating of How to man
use to the class of people here who
get nothing but empty-headed, untu-
tored 'Japs' to work upon-Japs who
often, at starting, do not understand
single word that is said to them, ex-
cept ten or fifteen dollars a month.
What we must have, and that soon,
as you say, is organization. If
the women of Honolulu once make
up their minds to take hold of
this thing they will do it thor
oughly and well, as they do every-
thing. A long pull, a strong pull, and
a pull altogether may accomplish much
if we are only determined and earnest.
I do not feel competent to discuss
methods The school of some sort will,
no doubt, be necessary if we are to
continue using Chinese and Japanese
immigrants. l really believe they do
not realize how little they give in re-
turn for the time, trouble and
money that is spent on them, in fact,
do any of us value much that which we
get easily? So, l say, should it ever
reach the point of a training school,
let them pay a fee for instruction. It
would help defray some of the eX
penses and make them more apprecia
tive.
Above all there must be more honor
and loyalty to each other, OH the part
of those who hire. than has heretofore
been the case.
| hope some woman more capa-
bic than |, may be moved to take
up her pen and carry this on. There
could be no harm in a little discussion.
Yours, very sincerely, E. c. R.
The attitude of the large majority
of men and women in matters of re-
form is generally that of the residents
on a street in which a dead dog lies.
The men look at it at first, and COM
pare notes on the ownership; each one
says: Somebody ought to take that
dog away" The small boy goes home
and says at the dinner table, PA, why
don't you take away that dead dog?"
Pa says, The police ought to take him
off Then the women discuss the sit
uation through the telephone. The
question is through every telephone,
Why don't somebody take away the
dead dog? Some good woman writes
to the newspaper saying that it is an
outrage to leave the dog there. Then
the dog begins to smell bad. The
men confer on the street corners about
it, and end up with damning every
body, and the chattering on the sub
ject is like conference of angry my
nan birds. The police say there is no
for removing deceased
dogs. The Cabinet holds a meeting over
the subject, and the finance committee
objects to the expense because it may
draw down the balance in the Govern
ment vaults. President Dole, under
the advice of Earnest Patriots, writes
to Washington about it. The Survey
or's department proceeds to triangu-
late the piece of land in which the dog
lies, and the meteorologist takes the
At the end of the third day the
get together, say little, but
chip in ten cents apiece, and China
man wheels up a barrow, carts the dog
off and buries him.
1t is about in this way that reforms
are made. The great, the supreme mo-
ment in any cause, whether it be the
emancipation of a race or the removal
of nuisance. is when talk ceases and
action begins. AS it is the lot of women
to suffer forever on account of Ewes
escapade, they Will probably contrive
to suffer the miseries of the kitchen.
until some Joan dare rises up and be-
gins a holy crusade againt bad cooks.
Then the women will fall into line and
the reformation Will be made. The