Show CREDIT IS DUE bUE 1 IS GIVEN TOO TOOS S W Wy y N W N JAPANESE PRINCE AS SERVANT A lady talking to me about servants the other day said that she liked the Japanese better than any any others for many reasons reasons b but t that even they had their drawbacks ks one being that they did not like like to to stay tay in the country after the first of O October tober as asso so many of them I were college undergraduates I have havea a Columbia junior in my room dining-room said she and a Harvard divinity student student stu stu- dent in my kitchen at the the- present time but that is not all A short A-short short time ago I had a and waiter who was highly recommended to me by a Japanese fellow-Japanese who had hd Jived with m me me before He was a niCe nice looking looking- little fellow but not a good s servant ryant f for r his mind seemed to be on other things other things rather rath rath- er than than his work And then h he would ask me such prof profound pi und questions questions' 1 I re really lly couldn't an answer answer them and he always had a book In his hand even when he was making th the be beds s. s Finally I had to tell him that much as I liked him in many ways I should be obliged I to let him go All right he said and to my surprise he went vent that very day while I was out without waiting for his money As m money ney Is usually the thing they work for I wondered and waited Hearing nothing from him I wrote to the Japanese through gh whom I had engaged engaged engaged en- en him making a particular po point nt of the unpaid wages The man wrote back not to worry about that that my ex and waiter walter was not In need of money that he was a Prince who had come come to America to travel and observe that he was going to write a book on our our manners and customs C and thought that the best way to learn them was to live in an American household Since then I 1 have been particular to ask my Japanese servants whether they are Princes In disguise or only divinity I students ThC Th The Critic |