Among the suggestions that our correspondence on the houseboy problem haa brought forward are several that' may be worth pursue ing. One ig the instruction of houseboys in their duties by a school or class for that purpose. They pick up a casual knowledge under the present system by acting as "small boy," at the expense of much broken crockery and loss of temper on the part of the foreigner, then graduate to No. 2 and so on up the domestic ladder. Their English is merely a by product. There are schools it-is claimed for typists, chauffeurs and shroffs—why not for the largest class of all fo eign-employed Chinese, houseboys? The registration question, it is also asserted, might well be approached on home lines. by registry offices. Bureaux engesed houseboy! register their names for employment, would eliminate the necessity of asking Mrs. Jones: o be good enough to ask her houseboy, and so on. Some such registry was once started, we believe it would be interesting to know its fate. But at the bottom of the trouble appears to be the Jack of any systematized instruction, just as it was mentioned yesterday they are finding out at Home. No method of registration will create houseboys and they will be @ plant of slow growth until some Ningpo Burbank appears to cross them with an earlier flowering type.
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