El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-06-19
Getting Along With
Folks

GETTING along with Mexican help
III is quite Ike getting along with
children or with the very rich or
with red headed folks or potted
plants, or angels or husbands or bag
gage men
It is an art. but then any sort Of
satisfactory living is. II takes po-
likeness and tact and steadiness OF
purpose and recognition OF others
dignity.
for living and getting along with
folks and things, and 10 them Il all
seems TO come easy while 70 others
It takes infinite care, infinite pains.
Getting along with Mexican help Is
I somewhat better and more quickly
done with a few Spanish words, and
l some recognition OF what the Mex
lean considers ordinary politeness.
Far be IL from q mere paragrapher
| to say ordinary American politeness
ever fails or falls short or forgets or
l that II Is any les sthan what our
/ brothers and sisters across the line
! consider ordinary everyday living po-
I likeness, but there be some house
I keepers and some men OF affairs In
I FL Paso who consider the Mexican
I too polite Let that be as It may.
/ You are sure, OF course, that you
always say howdoyoudo to everybody
you have dealings with during the
: day, never forgetting, and Of course
I you say goodbye when you leave or
others leave, OF course, that is or
Z binary politeness. Perhaps you some
times slide in a belated hello, or
grunt that viii put II over. But
with q Mexican you have TO be sure
TO say good day. There can be no
forgetting, II you want the Mexican
to stay in service. Furthermore you
say Buenos Dias up 20 noon. and
punctual as the whistle any greeting
after Il o'clock noon must be Buenos
Tardes. The Mexican never forgets.
When an employer OF Mexican man
or woman says adios at the end OF
the days work he must add to IL
Hasta manana" or "Hasta Ell viernes7
or "Hasta Ia semana que viene" or
whatever time he expects the help /
back to his task. Otherwise the Mex |
lean thinks he is dismissed
Contrariwise you can often get rid /
OF an undesirable Mexican worker /
without argument by failing to say /
Hasta any time 10 him when you pay 4
MIN Off Some MeNicans are very
particular on this point Others have
learned American ways and viii come
again or ask IL they are to come .
again. But many viii quit forever II /
you do not always say when you ex-
pect them again.
The Mexicans are naturally honest,
as honest as the run Of any folks.
The average Mexican maid has her
AE1g1e A04AE4 on LlE DGGk steps and
II you happen to discover lust before !
o'clock what Is folded within you
are very apt to come across a collec-
ton something like this: A blue
glass medicine measuring cup off a
discarded bottle, probably picked up
Ior the baby at home to play with
WINE ms mother works. and he Is
going to enjoy IL too; crusts OF the
bread and the fried egg she did not
eat for luncheon; a ribbon from the /
trash, and a picture paper. The Mex
lean girl win slip anything into her
rebosa that she thinks has been dis
carded- An FL Paso woman who
slipped off her rings in the kitchen
to do a bit Of work and left them
on the ledge and forgot them until
bedtime and then did not find them
on the ledge in the kitchen. reused a
detective and had her little Mexican
girl hunted out that night TO recover
them and the Mexican girls said yes
she had them The sonora had left
them in the kitchen as II she did not I
wish them and in cleaning up she
had taken them. She said she did not
enough to see the possibility and to K
blame herself for being so careless
with valuables. Another. a smaller,
woman might have blamed the Mex
lean girl only.
A Mexican, either man or woman, is
very apt to take pleasure In doing
any one assigned task well and fin
ishing Il up neatly. Either particu-
larly dislikes being pulled hither and
thither and interrupted and counter
manded in his work. Your Mexican
gardener likes to leave his grass with {
edges. his walks swept and
washed down, and his flower beds
loking wet. You can order him off 1
from the last tidying Up and try to
get a tree transplanted or some grass
set out In a bare spot, but unless he
Is watched he does the job he has set
his heart on and comes 70 the door
for his two dollars with a perfectly 4.
tidy garden behind him, the extra
job undone-
The Mexican laundress, # she be a
good one, and about one out OF seven
Is not, likes TO hang her big things
up BY the hens in row, and her