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Show i Olie(iilona Servant.. A lady recently returned from several years' residence, in Japan adds another I to the many tales of the obsequiousness of j Japam so servants. In leaving tho house one day in the care of his inirso her ' young son slipja'd and fell, as children ! will, receiving no injury beyond one or two trivial scratches. Tho nurse, wu 1 inconsolable, however. She. upbraided I herself in tho most extravagant terms, and called down all sorts of dire consn- quonees upon her head. Tho other serv-' serv-' ants, to whom the alTair was imniediate-; imniediate-; ly coiiiinunii ated by the unhappy maid, ; were equally shocked and outraged, and the jabbering and chattering lasted iu-. iu-. terminably. I For weeks afterward the occurrence was referred to as a dreadful calamity, I and the day of its happening served for a long time as a prominent date by which to place other events. It is further fur-ther slated that the accident was not , witnessed by any member of tho family. It would never have been known to the boy's mother save for the intense and continued excil.iT.eiit it created. Her Point of View in Xow York Times. |