Espousing a Cause SmI feel that I have after years of experience and observation, many facts to. substantiate my_ statements, famous Chinese servants so T didn't hesitate to sign my Ielter to the Editor. Be Fain makes only conjec= {tures "about me personally - which seem rather irrelevant to the cause Twas espousing, namely decent ser~ wants' quarters and a chance for fugees a8 domestic help.
'Maybe I am a sour grouch, 1 have been too busy lately to take' a good Took at myself in the mirror, besides probably would no: see it anyway, we never see ourselves as others see Us, "Though 1 have compromised with "face" Ihave not been able to compromise with dirt. and dishonesty, and so perhaps the smile fand sympathy 1 had for the worker in the beginning has turned a little sour.
However, 1 do take exception being called lazy. So much so. that if the Editor would allow the space fand not think it too boring T would mind going into personal details in another letter to prove that I am [not too lazy to supervise my servants, T must admit that when it comes to measuring ous cups of four ete. as Thave heard from some "good house wives" both foreign and Chinese, I {ind it too petty and undignified. "To be' concise, if cleaning a four-room apartment and cooking for two adults and two children, with the assistance Jor vacuum cleanses, electric. washing machine and all, other, modern im: provements is asking too much 0 two able-bodied Chinese servants found it was not too much for cne coloured maid in the States, Just where Be Fain gets the notion tha any foreigner here pays w cook only $15 is a mystery to me as It must be to other readers, Incidentally, one of my employees is a refugee, "1 have Kept one and the same servant for as Tong as 6. years, so, it seems, Be Fam made may false guesses Dns, J. ti, Wien, July Mrs, Winkelman Defended To the Editor of the
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