The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-23
THE angel IN THE HOUSE"
Japanese Gentleman" as Servant TO
Learn the English Language.
london Chronicle.

tLOnQOH (0fOnlCle.t
We had attacked the domestic problem
from all sides. We had suffered Mary
Ann, owning no followers by her own &C
counts, with patience till we found a
couple Of them discussing bottle of our
Bass in the coei cellar. We had gone
to the other extreme with Jemima Jane,
and permitted the weekly visits of an
authorized sweetheart, dismissed decor
ously at 10 p. m, till scratched paint on
the larder Windowsill witnessed mis- en-
trance in again Immediately thereafter.
and made an end of both wooer and
Jemima Jane so far as we were con-
cerned.
We had led a wearying existence for
six months with an aged couple With only
three legs and three eyes between them.
The wife had the shortage in the eye
department, and the husband in the leg,
and when she persisted in sending up the
meat burned on one side and raw on the
other, and he took to getting drunk ana
beating her O. nights with his wooden
leg. We were reconciled to their depart
ure even though six OF our best silver
teaspoons and a pair Of blankets depart
ed along with them. A Salvation lass who
smashed the ornaments and told us we
should take the spelling Of our goods JOY
fully was the next holder or the SITUATION
and last, but not least, came Alfred, the
boy who washed out the front tiles III
excellent fashion, but came to a bad
end through smoking his employers best
cigars in the newly painted bathroom.
Then we tried being our own servants,
and when we tired of that, which he did
with great rspidity, we spent a small
fortune and wore out out boot in visits 70
registries, and lost time and money 10
paying railway farces and waiting IN
doors to keep appointments with app1-
cants who failed to turn up.
At last one day, on taking UP our
Chronicle, our weary eyes read this: "A
InHfV n
learning English, is willing to undertake
the domestic duties In an English family
in return for board and small salary
Apply Box 1899"
we find? A treasure, a pearl of great
price, masterpiece. Our home is now
the abode of peace and content. No
more do we wTestle with pert girls and
rapacious character women. Our Japan
csc gentleman sweeps, dusts, washes up,
goes errands, COOKS, and waits at table
all with the same thoroughness and
alacrity. His laying OF the table is a WORK
of art, and he is charmed when told un-
expected guests will stop to supper. More
marvellous still, once week he takes Ill
his post at the Washtub and does the
family linen. AS to diet, he is the easl,
est pleased creature in the world, and
really prefers boiled rice to roast beef
for HIS dinner. He asks no days off and
no night out.
He is friendly, but not intrusive. Invite
him to discuss the Anglo-Japanese ALI
ancc over cigar in the garden In the
evening. and ne will politely accept Take
no notice of him, and he retfres TO MS
Kitchen and sits down and with his Eng
lish grammar and dictionary. When he
smiles he shows two rows of white teeth
which would make a dentist envious and
the children adore him. for he can make
as many toys out of an old envelope as
Deyant characters out of o mask. Tenn
pies, windmills, tBees-anything they ask
10 h1In ia W
rim and allows him to take him out for
a. stroll He has one aim in life, and
that is to learn English quickly and re-
turn to his native land equipped foi
some good appointment in consequence
Meanwhile HIS motto of service is one
never surely before heard In this land
from the lips of servant, man or woman
Madame must not too much work.
saws Hubert, gravely, as he takes the
broom from my unresisting hand. We
cali him Hubert as the nearest approach
to his proper name our British tongue car
attain TO. But Angel is his true title.
ONLY TO see him at the tub is enough
Rubbing, rinsing, wringing, and then go
ing out to the garden with his basketfu
of clean linen. The neighbers peep be-
hind their blinds and cannot make hin
out, while the maids on either side of ths
fence have Zach consented to do a lit
tie washing since his advent, so that they
may hang out clothes in his company.
But it is all in vain. Our. japanese gen
tleman is only temporarily engaged i
foreign affairs, and Will enter into no al
lance over the fence. No; he is learning
English all too fast and when he goes W.
Shall be lost For, though he tells u
there are many Japanese gentlemen read,
| to do as he has done, and to come Owe
! to be Engiands servants In order to learr
| England's language, we are not consoled
| Let them all come. Mary Ann and Jem
| ina jane will learn their proper place
| thereby But no other gentleman Of ia
~ an ~ II
| to us for the departure of Hubert-ou
Angel in the House