Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-16

and clothes and leave OF absence during the
day to attend school. In the morning and
the evening they work hard and faithfully
10 make up for lost time. Faithfulness- 3
the quality in which they outshine all other
servants available the Pacific coast
They always advertise that "a faithful jap
aneSe boy needs situation and il is no
idle boast.
You might think said an American
woman who has kept house in San Fran
cisco fot many years, that it would be
an awkward arrangement in any household
to have the servant absent during the
morning and the greater part of the after
neon; but it is not l have employed many
| OF these Japanese boys. some of them only
eleven or twelve years old, and have never
had any trouble with them / would nor
engage any other servant
The boy Is up at ) in the morning work
ing like a little hero to get everything in
ORDER before he goes to school. He sweeps
and dGsts the rooms, cleans the boots
washes all the dirty dishes gets breakfast
ready and does twenty other things before
s o'clec!-
BY tie time he gets his books together
ana starts Tor school you may look all
around the house and not find a single
thing left undone All your needs and
wishes during the day have been antfci-
pated. Even afternoon tea has been got
ready. all except the boiling of the water
and the making of the tea
AS soon as school is dismissed. he hur-
RES nome. He does not stop to play with
the American boys. for he knows he will be
! wanted. and he likes to get his work done
early so that he can spend a good part of
the evening in study.
1t is pleasant to have these bows about
| the hcuse- Their manners are refined they
| always study to please. they are strictly
| honest and truthful. and they do things
| WITHOUT ceing told. Every housekeeper
knows how rare that is in a servant.
IT Is wonderful how hard they work to
get an American education and learn
Ainerlcah ways Naturally, many of them
L Sftt1
| men, either in San Francisco or in Japan
Had Met Before.
''The other day met a Japanese sentJe-
| man at the house OF a friend. when 1 was;
paying a social call. / was told that he
was one of the leading doctors in Nagasa-
XII. and had come over on a visit We had
en- interesting conversation. His face SEEM
ed familiar. and presently 1 asked him
whether We had met before
is 1t possible that you don't remember
mey he replied. was a boy in your
house for two years and left you only nine
years ago.
I'm his manners and conversation he was
exactly like an educated and ACCOMPLISHED
American gentleman"
Many of these little Japs, when they
grow up. marry in San Francisco, either
with their eountrywomen OF with white
women, attain good positions, and live in
America all their lives They do not al
ways stay on the Pacific coast Many of
them establish businesses in the other
large cities and prosper exceedingly IL
you talk to rich Japanese merchant in
any part OF the country. you will be quite
likely to find that he started his American
career as servant boy in Frisco.
man who spent an evening at the
house of wealthy Japanese In Philadel-
phia, came away enthusiastic in praise of
his hosts children.
They were the incest little shayers Won
ever met he said. Just like American
children in many ways. but with a grave
ponteness and gentle manners that Ameri-
can children do not always possess They
were queer mixture. In one breath the
boy informed me that he was going to Har-
ward when he grew up; In the next he
proudly told me stories of the great deeds
of his samurai ancestors The girl PLAYED
Mendelssohn's Spring Song like a real
musician, and then dressed herself in a
kimona and told Japanese fairy tales
During the evening they played a ia
panese game very much like ping-pong.
charged them with having copied It from
US. Not at air they said. This game
has been played in Japan for thousand
years Ping-pong must have been copied
from il. .