would be interesting to read
parison in general health of working reliable siatites regarding the com-women and those of the leisured classes. A dooler at home tole me that in his practice working women had much better health and fewer' serious diseases than had his leisured last year T was told that there were fifty mistresses looking for made, and they had not one. girl onthe books who was looking for service.
One of the worries o¢ many people Teaving Shanghai for good lust now is their desire to place good servants whom they have had with them for a humber of years. This constitutes a wal anxiety, and it la dificult to Know how to arrange for a. good servants future with affairs as they now are in this elly.. Tt is almost Impossible to find new homes, "and not all can afford to give anything {inthe way of a permanent pension, was frequently arranged in. the ola days. One feels that even a generous cumshaw will only tide. over for a limited tine, "and then what is the faithful domestic ina land racked by a very good fanifation of war?
Certainly the present abundance of help available does not seem to have reduced the standard of wages at all, fter there "never were times when house-servants were 30 highly paid. True the cost of living for Chinese is high, but so it is for foreigners, and few" house-boys seem to have had the cuts in pay which their foreign masters have experienced, However, the problem of what to 0 with the boys we leave behind us is a diffeult one, anda solution rom some bright brains will be wel-som
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