The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-07

two or three mornings week. Men like that, though, are an exception.
 ''The buffers we have had since the student left are more ordinary, but all have been faithful, efficient and no more prone to be untruthful than an Englishman. Before coming here the butler We now employ was on a ma h. o'-war and saw something of the bat tie of Santigo.
 'Yes I have had Japanese cooks and like them. Last year got one who had been on a yaeht-that sort, by the way, is apt to be the best-and who, in some port or other, married an English wo- man. She joined him in New York and I engaged her as ehambermaid.
 Before they came I had been in the habit of having an Irish laundress come | in one day every week to wash; but after the Japanese arrived he took a strong dislike to the woman, who re- turned it with interest, that he prom ised he and his wife would do all the laundry work if I would pay him the | extra money.
 As a rule the Japanese object to washing and ironing. and they consent | to do it they try to keep the fact a | secret As it turned cut. my man was a far better cook than he was laun- 1 dress.
 But the only serious fault had to find with him was that he gambled. Yet, as he did not gamble in my house l I did not very well see how l could in- terfere. Ostensibly he was out only ! one night week-at least one night is all he asked for-but I had reason to believe that he was out much oftener and that his wife let him in on the quiet.
 "The cook had before him, who had also been on a man-o'-war, where he managed to save quite a bit of money fell in love with young American girl employed in one of the New York stores. He took the thing seriously, but I imagine the girl only fiirted with him out of pure misehrief. When, one day he proposed marriage and said he would furnish nice flat for her if she would be his bride, she laughed in his face and said: Why, sure.'
 She was only fooling, of course, ant never dreamed the cook took it serious ly until he came to her one day ane said he had spent s2,o0O on furniture ! and offered to take up to see the flat He has the fiat yet and rents the rooms out to some of his friends, but he never mentions matrimony now.
 J Personally, have not had any exz perience with the general houseworl of Japanese servants, but a friend o mine who lives in an apartment up town has one Japanese servant wht does every bit of the work for two, ex' cept the laundry. That they give out l'This servant acts as butler, cook cham bermaid, scourer, and can do the mar keting if necessary He even finds time to press his masters clothes.
 His wages are $40 month. Yes, il does seem high, but my friend says ht does as much work, and does it better than two ordiary servants. and thai she would rather have him. Of course that is largely a matter of taste.
 II have friends who have more thar once tried to keep a Japanese butler ol a Japaneses cook, but the other ser, wants made the life Of the foreigner sc unbearable that he had to get out. A; a rule American servants don't take kindly to the Japs.
 Speaking from my own experience though, I think Japanese servants ar, hard workers-quick. agile, untiring that they are far more intelligent thar the average American servant, and, i anything, more reliable. "-New Yorl Sun.