The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-08-16
CHINESE TO THE RESCUE.

One of the most noticeable things
about the Eastern man who fares this
WAY in his sea travel is his enthusiasm
for Chinese servants The deft hand
the light step. the respectful manner
the neat garb the polite attention 10
DUTY of the Chinaman who serves ms
stateruom and table aboard ship make
the Fastener long to get such worners
for his home year or two ago an
eminent jurist, n man from the supreme
bench Of populous Eastern state
asked a Honolulan II 1t was not easy
to smuggle Chinese servants into IN"
town where he lived via Canada; and
if caught what the fine would be w"
don't much doubt that part OF the IL
licit immigration Of Chinese to the Md
die and New England States Is due I"
the .agerness of trans-Pacitic travel
|ers TO replace the servants in th"h
households-the insolent and incomp"
tent help" OF the Eastern kitchens
with the trained menials of the Orient
" hom they have met in travelling.
Just what the servant problem means
in the East is partly revealed In tins
telegram from Chicago:
CHICAGO, July 2S.-The Servant Girls
Union has formulated q scale Of prices
NJ follows:
Cooks and housekeepers ... s. TO 81 week
! General and second girls. 81 to 81 week
Young and inexperienced
girls 600. ...................,s3 to - week
These mandates for the mistresses are
now being concocted by the members OF
the organization and this is to be their
! tenor:
! Rule /. Work shall not begin before
! : 30 a. m. and shall cease when the even
| ing's dishes are washed and put away.
Two hours each afternoon and the entire
evening at least twice week, shall be
! allowed the domestic az her own.
Rule 2 There shall be no opposition
on the part of the mistress to club life
on the part of the domestic. Entertain
ments of friends in limited numbers shall
not be prohibited, provided the domestic
furnishes her own refreshments.
Rule g. Gentlemen friends shall not
be barred from the kitchen or back
porch. Members of the family of the
house shall not interrupt the converse
ton arising during said visit.
Rule 4. Domestics shall be allowed
such hours off on Monday as will permit
them TO visit the bargain counters of the
stores and enjoy on that day the same
privileges enjoyed by the mistress and
her daughters
| INult -. MI Sliiil We maui
to the business agent of the union. The
question of wages shall be settled at time
of employment and no reduction shall be
allowed"
If these servants were competent th'
rules might be borne; but the majorit
of them are slatternly, unframed, i'm
pudent and lazy. their chief business IL
life being to impress their employer
it'll an idea of their social and lnte,.
lectual equality. To get better class oi
c hambermaids and cooks has been tn,
as piration Of the Eastern housewife fo'
thirty years. She has tried Irish, Gee
man. Danish, Swedish and English
peasants in turn; has struggled with in
tolerablc American help" and wrestlet
with the negro problem, all to no avail
and she was just getting ready to tr,
the Chinaman when the exclusion bar
u were put up.
K Now there Is "A chance to let the bar
u down again. The housewives chanc
e 10 get servants from n servile race
" coming. The Chinaman Is knocking 60
entrance. He doesn't want to vote: h
u Is sure that ne is servant and not
u master; he does not insist on an eight
he hour law; his vices put him to sleep q
y sic eping time and don't send him to
r. from n mixcd-ale carousal; ne IL nor
~ est and competent: If he sends his MOI
~ bach ~ emma that doesn't hurt
country any more than does money sci
back TO Ireland or Germany or To Il
S. Pope. Summed all up, he is ms near h.
II ing perfect servant. when prOperl
n trained. as the world can supply. I'll
l. East needs him and needs him badl
N land the East can get him II IL wants {,