PRIME MINISTER & THE COOK.
The Chinese newspapers ' are slinking their heads (they have no longer anv pig--tails) over tie doings of their now Prime Minister, 31.' Lon Tseng Chiang. For ho has dismissed his cook,' tho Heaven-born, all-powerful mayor of' tho'palace, M. Yu. For:M. Yu is moro than a cook—he belongs to the nobility, and when the Alar.ciuis .Li. Hung Chang, tried to engage .a Kuropean.cook in his placo Al. Yu nppealfo the' Empress,: and defeated tho Marquis. That was somo time ago, and SI. Yu has been increasing in importance over since. Ho possesses a bigh house in the street of Minichcngpouj in Peking, a restaurant in the; Zoological Garden at Peking, and another establishment.' Ho naturally imagined that his services ' would be highly valued by the now' Prime Minister, and in order'to smooth the way he tent a present of .his liest hams' to' (he Minister. His surpriso was great when, his present was returned, and ho himself was dismissed. The Peking newspapers cannot understand a Minister acting in this way. The old rule was, tho more presents the better. "Westminster •Gazette.".
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1563, 5 October 1912, Page 7
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184PRIME MINISTER & THE COOK. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1563, 5 October 1912, Page 7
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