During my promenades from jobs to jobs I have visited considerable kitchens. Some folks have promised to treat me like one of the family; this sound deliciously sweet until I see how that family behaves with itself. From such places I escape nearly lifeless. In my profession I resemble burglars—continually entering houses without welcome and seldom quitting without taking something with me. Sometimes I take valuable experience, sometimes injury of eye which are considerable precious for teach my soul how to set in his place and act low down.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
Hashimura Togo
HASHIMURA TOGO
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Togo’s Thursdays Out
To Editor Good Housekeeper Magazine who should be found in every employment bureau
Dearest Sir:—While working in servant-girlish employment of Gen. Housework I have endured considerable cruelties with great durability. But when ladies insists to pour kindness upon me, then the worm twists from such brutality. For thus reason I am now entirely disjointed from job of working at home of Hon. Mrs. Heneretta Hoke & Husband, Nutt Center, N.J. I tell you this historical event.
When I employ this Mrs. Hoke to be boss, she say with Jane Addams expression, “Hon. Abe Lincoln freed niggero slaves sometime of yore; therefore Japanese servant must also be considered human.”
“I do not expect such sweethearted treatment,” I say for slight tear-drop.
“I am going to commence my beginning by being generous to you,” she encroach. “You may take Thursday afternoons out.”