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Show AS HIS MISTRESS HAD DONE. Chinese Cook, Like All His Race, Capable Only of Imitating the Acts of Others. "Chinese need to be taught to be more self-reliant," said the woman who employs a Chinese cook. "The other day I ordered my cook to make a pudding for dinner, stopping a minute min-ute to see if he followed my instructions, instruc-tions, for I had taught him to make this particular pudding. He had seen me smell the eggs before putting them into a bowl and he began by putting, the first egg to his nose. He seemed on the right road, so I left the kitclieii for a minute. Returning I discovered that he had used five eggs Instead of three as I had taught him. Taking him to task for not following my instructions in-structions he answered 'Yes thre here (pointing to the bowl) two hef (indicating where he had thrown the others). Same as you.' "It dawned on me that when I had taught him to make the pudding I had found the second and third eggs that I had broken to be bad and had thrown both away. He had simply done what he had seen me do after smelling the second and third egg he had thrown them away." |