Show I THE HEATHEN CHINEE Effort to Introduce Him on John Bulls Inland While we are striving to rid ourselves our-selves of the Chinese said T L 11 Speedwell of San Francisco at the Southern a scheme is on foot to introduce in-troduce them into England I recently met a man in Frisco who was ongaged in a preliminary survey of the field He told me that a syndicate had been formed in London for the purpose of importing a number of Chinamen as house servants The servant girl i rob lem has become a serious one throughout through-out England As in this country in late years there has been an enormous increase in-crease in the range of the field of labor for women and in every walk of life they are taking the place of men Atone At-one time the daughters of poor farmers and artisans had no higher aspirations than to go into service in some good family Now it has come to be regarded regard-ed as menial and increased wages offer no temptation to girls to give up what they consider more independent work in stores and factories at less wages The double problem thus presented of a scarcity of house servants and the inability of men and boys to procure work be use of the Inroads of the women is i occupying considerable space and attention in the press of that country One correspondent suggests that unless there is a change the bo swill s-will have to be trained as domestic servants while their sisters fill the places they were wont to fill in office store or factory The Chinese servant scheme will be conducted on a small scale at first as an experiment I do not think it will prove successful The English are prejudiced against all foreigners and especially against those of another color The negro has never found his way to any extent male or female into the house of England as a servant and besides this prejudice is the one still more deeply rooted among English women of a man doing household house-hold brkSt Louis GlobeDem rat |