The Charleston Employment Bureau advertises, “White help especially in demand.” In Texas the proportion of the foreign born population is larger than in any other of the Southern states, and advertisements from all the leading cities in the state show a decided preference for German or Swedish domestics. One from the _Fort Worth Gazette_ reads, “Wanted—A white woman (German or Swede preferred) as cook in a private family.” This illustrates a large number of “wants.” An employer writes from Austin, “In Texas cities domestic service is furnished by Germans and Swedes to a large extent, and the tendency to employ them is growing.” [284] “The older generation of negroes who were trained for service have nearly all died, and the survivors are too old to be efficient. The younger negroes are too lazy to be of much use.”—_Brenham, Texas._ “Old colored servants that were trained before the war are now inefficient; the younger ones will not submit to training.”—_Austin, Texas._ “Old trained colored servants are no longer to be had,—younger ones are not well trained, and consequently cannot do first class work. White servants are better trained, but scarce, and therefore independent.”—_Austin, Texas._ “We have 80,000 colored people in the city. The old trained servants of slavery times are mostly passed away, and the younger ones have not been properly trained.”—_Washington, D.C._ “The servants who were trained before ‘freedom’ are too old to do good work, and they are not training their children to be efficient.”—_Anderson, South Carolina._ “The majority of those now seeking domestic service are ignorant, uneducated, untrustworthy.”—_Biloxi, Mississippi._ “Servants have no training.”—_Edgefield, South Carolina._ [285] “One difficulty here is the indifference of our colored servants to what the morrow may bring forth. They are capable of living on a very small amount, and they assist each other during the time unoccupied.”—_Charleston, South Carolina._ “The negroes do not know how to render good service as a rule, and they do not understand the term ‘thorough.’”—_Charleston, South Carolina._ “Colored help have to be very patiently and charitably dealt with.”—_Washington, D.C._ “The difficulty here is the general shiftlessness and liking for changed conditions that is characteristic of the colored race.”—_Austin, Texas._ “There is special difficulty here during the cotton-picking season.”—_Austin, Texas._ “The majority of our servants, who are negroes, are not willing to do steady, faithful work for reasonable wages. Their idea of freedom is to come and go at will, and they expect full wages for light work.”—_Austin, Texas._ “The ease with which subsistence can be obtained in this productive climate and the high wages earned during the cotton-picking season make the labor supply unstable.”—_Austin, Texas._