The Pulaskian., 1915-02-05
OL1P Al2LLSE

and concerning this Ito had 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 a gray-green jar
 hlled with double yellow coreopsis
 The first course was fruit cocktail
 compounded of papaya, orange and pineapple; for the second course there were served mullet, potato chips.
 brown bread-and-cucumber sand wiches; next, roast duck guaya 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-filled tray. One drink that he bore about was especially popular, a cup that while tasty and sparkling was as innocent as 1t 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 flavors. sometimes giving single fruit its full value But above the value of his beverages and ices was his unvarying politeness, his smil- ing, kindly service
 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, pNeACAt eoeei uChOiJ ioSOnbCuI. JNeuluEo after his hot path and the donning of Japanese attire-daytimes he wore American costume-he presented 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 U 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 veritable sty had we not personally hood out every once i- awhile.
 And confession will have to be made. inis eulogy of oriental serv- ants will have to be tempered by the statement that never once could we relax in our housel.eepings the role of rigid inspector; that though the Japanese are the nation that bathes, l 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 great scrubber and cleaner as well as fair cook and an attentive waiter. He was very unpretty to look at, with his enormous mouth and protruding jaws, but he was so im- maculate one presently forgot he was