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Show DOMESTIC HELP. An extraordinary session of Congress has been called and is now in session. It was called for the express purpose of ratifyng a reciprocity treaty "with Cuba. The Government is making treaties with all kinds of people and for all kinds of reasons in the interest of trade and enlarged commerce. There is one more treaty needed and that is with China. From San Francisco to New York there is distress in a million homes because no efficient domestic help can be secured; there is demoralization and loss on all the fruit farms between the Pacific and the Mississippi River because be-cause no efficient help can be obtained. The stores, factories and labor-saving machines employ em-ploy vast numbers of females. The American girl will not work out and it is natural because to work in a store is pleasanter and after 6 p. m. her time is her own. Then the mass of modern girls are not taught by their mothers to do housework. house-work. The average man that wants to work is not worth his salt on a fruit ranch and then fruit-raisers can not pay the wages which white men exact. Now the treaty needed with! China is to have the privilege of sending teachers and trainers there to open schools, to give young Chinamen a brief education in cooking, waiting on the table, general household work, washing and ironing, and in the pruning, grafting and cultivation cultiva-tion of, fruit trees and shrubs. A month's practice will enable those sharp imitators to get an idea of what will be wanted of them, and then the exclusion ex-clusion clause in the old treaty with China should be opened to receive such Chinese on our shores. If ten thousand or twenty thousand a year were to be sent, they would be caught up as soon as landed, their work would interfere with no one and they would come to our shores like a benediction. benedic-tion. At present family after family, is giving up home and going to boarding houses and hotels simply because they are worn out in trying to get along and the number would be swelled indefinitely in-definitely except that ordinary people cannot do that, but must get along as best they can. It may be said it would be better to get up a colonization scheme and send to 'overcrowded Europe. The trouble with that Is that the Importations Impor-tations cannot be relied upon. They come with exaggerated ideas of what the freedom of the United States means and their rule is to strike by signs for higher wages before they learn the language enough to express in words what they want. The situation is fast becoming 'intolerable. A healthy, energetic girl, competent to do housework, house-work, can in this city in a single year, lay up i more money than had each of the average young B couples to start with, who cleared the forests H and converted the wilderness into gardens b& K tween the Atlantic and the prairies. And thero BB are a thousand of them in this city who need the B work, but they avIU not do it. It is so everywhere H It is a matter so serious. that it should be romo- B died and the very best way to remedy it is to m find some race with the necessary qualifications jB and import enough of them to relieve the present K pressure. , , m |