Chinese are in demand not only for
work as laundrymen, but as highly
paid servants. The prevailing rate
for laundrymen is from $15 to $20 or
more a week, with board. Once a
Chinese has learned the uses of irons
and starch his services are in demand
YANKEE WAYS A SURPRISE.
Porte Rican Astonished at Applica
tion of Common Sense.
"The Porto Rico cow," said the
man who had been stationed on the
island as a soldier for two years,. "is
as humble a looking animal as one
ever came across. I never saw one
hook or kick or display the least tem
per, nor did I ever find anyone else
who had. The first time I ever saw
one milked was a matter of the
greatest surprise. When a boy had
driven her up to the shed, where she
stood chewing her end and switching
her tail, the owner brought out a rope
and tied her head fast to a post.
Then a second rope made her front
legs fast. A third did for her hind
legs and a fourth went around her
boyd. She was trussed up until she
could hardly wink an eye.
'What on earth is all that for?" I
asked the iman.
" 'I am going to milk her, senor,' he
replied.
"And you tie her up that way twice
at the highest figures. To keep up
with their work some of the larger
Chinese laundries have been obliged
to hire white help. Others whose
proprietors cannot get along under
such an arrangement are selling their
establishments. Chinese laundries are
at present for sale by the score be
cause of the scarcity in the labor
market.
