ABSTRACT
The Chinese has specialized service in a way that it has never been done in Great Britain. To employ a cook in China, ta shih fu is a big servant. He takes a basket in one hand and a bird cage in the other and goes out on the street to buy owner provisions. The reader's cook may also go and assist some of his other pupils when their mistresses are giving dinners, leaving his pupil to prepare their evening meal. It is a business that is easily learned and requires but little capital, and hence the reason why so many Chinese, when they come to America and Canada, are launderers. Then readers must have a 'boy', to sweep and dust, set the table, wash the dishes, attend to the fires, and when readers were only two in their family before the babies came, the boy was willing to do their washing and ironing.
