After-amice hours provide diverse activities. 'The tailor or hairdresser must be' visited. Tailors here will not come to the homes of clients, One of the girls works near to 9 butcher fand grocer, and so consequently she is delegated to do the domestic shopping. There is much entertaining in this little Hongkong flat. People of many nationalities and" occupations, have eaten their salt, The oldest girl takes natural leadership. Her duties fare to cook the dinner—with the ald of @ well trained amah who really only has to clean the rooms, wash, iron and any other odd jobs that crop up—and to keep accounts, Sometimes hawkers are too persist-lent. They ring the door-bell and very often the hawkers adopt a presumptvous attitude and almost insist that their goods be bought. However, as lone of the girls possesses a sound knowledge of the Cantonese dialect, it is simple to make them understand that their wares are not required. An occasion occurred when some new curtains hung up the previous night were gone in the morning. These little incidents are mentioned only to filustrate some of the minor things the girls have to cope with in their running of the fat,
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