Williams news., 1915-03-04
0LZ2 Al2LIE

anu concerning th1S Ito naQ the same prejudice as myself. When there were guests from the outside world, he was as keen as I in the effort to give local flavor to the repast. Perhaps l can recall a menu or two and the decorations accompanying: In the center of the table, arranged in low, spreading way, was graygreen jar filled with double yellow coreopsis. The first course was a fruit cocktail compounded of papaya, orange and pineapple; for the second course there were served mullet, potato chips, brown bread-and-cucumber sand w1ches; next, roast duck, gnava jelly. mashed potatoes, green beans; then alligator pear (avocado) and water crackers; at the end, coffee and hints.
 Another name is ,Tokomoto. He made most delicious cooling bever- ages. and I generally picture him as accompanied by a glass-flled tray. One drink that he bore about was especially popular, a cup that while tasty and sparkling was as innocent as it was good: Mint, you cut him fine, you put sugar, you put lemons. squeeze him, stop in ice box long time. You put ginger ale, then pour him quick" Sherbets, too, he excelled in, offering of these variety, sometimes blending aavors, sometimes giving a single fruit its full value. But above the value of his beverages. and ices. was his unvarying politeness, his smil- ing, kindly service.
 l think of that dependable sweeper of walks, beater of rugs and veranda- washer, Nakana. Of the industrious gardener whose name we never could remember, but whom we referred to as the smiling Jap" And even of pre- tending-to-be-cross old Tuji, who af- firmed he hated flowers but was perpetually watering or wedding them. And most kindly think of Narimatsu, caretaker at the mountain house loaned us one season. He was gen. eral utility man; newer of wood and drawer of water, guide, mail-carrier, sutler, gardener, raconteur. Evenings after his hot path and the donning of Japanese attire-daytimes he wore American costume-he presented a re- markedly well-groomed appearance. looked and acted the gentleman of leisure-a marked :, contrast to the hired man" of the States
 Narimatsu's wife, had but recently come out from Japan, and while any thing but experienced in American methods of housekeeping, was sJ will ing and intelligent that we could be nothing else than patient with her. Our garments suffered in her early attempts as laundress. but she inn | proved week by week, and we found | her on the whole worth training; though the training had to be from the ground up. Only one of our array of domestics was complete failure. She was impossibly untidy, and our place would have become a veritable sty had we not personally hood out every once i- awhile.
 And confession will have to be made. 1nis eulogy of oriental serv- ants will have to be tempered by the statement that never once. could we relax in our housekeepings the role of rigid inspector; that though the Japanese are the nation that bathes, still they often are very benighted in other sanitary matters; the surround ings of the bathed ones all too often are squalid in the extreme.
 An Oi, young Chinese servant, we found a great scrubber and cleaner as we'll as a fair cook and an attentive
 waiter. He was very unpretty to look at, with his enormous mouth and protruding jaws, but he was so inn maculate one presently forgot he was