-------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Sober or temperate. | +-------------+-------------+-------------+ | Male. | Female. | Total. | +------+------+-----+-------+-----+-------+ | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | -------------------------+------+------+-----+-------+-----+-------+ Very | 9 | 9 | 71 | 8.8 | 80 | 8.9 | Yes | 78 | 78 | 657 | 82 | 735 | 81.5 | Fairly so | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.2 | "So far as I know," or | | | | | | | "I think so." | 11 | 11 | 52 | 6.5 | 63 | 7.0 | No | -- | -- | 4 | 0.5 | 4 | 0.4 | Decidedly no | -- |- -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Not stated | 1 | 1 | 17 | 2.1 | 18 | 2.0 | -------------------------+------+------+-----+-------+-----+-------+ Total | 100 | 100 | 802 | 100 | 902 | 100 | -------------------------+------+------+-----+-------+-----+-------+ Total percent | 11.1 | 88.9 | 100 | -------------------------+------+------+-----+-------+-----+-------+
-------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Honest. | +-------------+-------------+-------------+ | Male. | Female. | Total. | +------+------+-----+-------+-----+-------+ | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | -------------------------+------+------+-----+-------+-----+-------+ Very | 12 | 12 | 226 | 28.2 | 238 | 26.4 | Yes | 81 | 81 | 504 | 62.9 | 585 | 64.9 | Fairly so | -- | -- | 3 | 0.4 | 3 | 0.3 | "So far as I know," or | | | | | | | "I think so." | 4 | 4 | 57 | 7.1 | 61 | 6.8 | No | -- | -- | 6 | 0.7 | 6 | 0.6 | Decidedly no | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Not stated | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0.7 | 9 | 1.0 | -------------------------+------+------+-----+-------+-----+-------+ Total | 100 | 100 | 802 | 100 | 902 | 100 | -------------------------+------+------+-----+-------+-----+-------+ Total percent | 11.1 | 88.9 | 100 | -------------------------+------+------+-----+-------+-----+-------+
These testimonials furnish a body of evidence contrary to the current opinion of criticism and blame, and direct attention to other causes for whatever unsatisfactory part that Negroes are playing in this line of service in the City. These causes may be looked for in the increasing number of European immigrants; in the growing ambition and effort of Negro wage-earners, sharing the feeling of all native-born Americans, to get away from personal and domestic service and to enter fields of work with better wages, shorter hours, and more independence.[64] To this may be added the increasing custom, indicating prejudice of well-to-do Americans, of giving preference to European servants.[65]