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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1902)
THE COCKIER 11 k A The Courier Published Every Saturday Entered In the Postofllce at Lincoln as second class matter. OFFICE, ....... '.K)0-910 P STREET Tfi ppiiomp ' Business Office, -JU ,EONE I Editorial Rooms no SUBSCRIPTION' RATES: Per annum, In advance, 51.00 Single Copy .05 Cbimse Mew fern Close ill their cosy home-nooks Lin coln's tawny element will feast and drink in the coining ten days and dream of their native land. It is Chinese New Year a season of it, two weeks in length, hut alas for Lincoln, it is a cheap town. Too few .Mongolians! If there were only more the city would see a spread that would out-fair all the street carnivals conceived by the most vividly imagi native of Lincoln's promoters. There are not more than sixteen Chinamen in town. It is too few a number and so they will observe the time as said, in the quietness of their own snug retreats. A few, three or four perhaps, will journey down to Omaha and participate with the ce lestials there. They will meet with a welcome and the most admirable of hospitality. It is the season of hos pitality and no one is better qualified for its exhibition than the Chinaman. Suppose he is clannish! No race ex ists that is more genuinely or gener ously hospitable when occasion calls and no hostility exists. And then the joss houses! There is none in Lincoln and that as much as anything else will draw those to Omaha who arc able to leave. Never a New Year s m- sou for .t Chinaman that docs not se him do proper joss obeisance when such a being is anywhere near to he worshipped. Who ever observed an intoxicate.) Chinaman." No answer? t.oori reason! The Chinaman does not indulge in sprees in his New Year season nor In any other season that anybody knows of. Perhaps some obscure person has seen a drunken Chinaman at some period in his life but be sure the drunk is reviled by his race for his weakness. Drunkenness is not what they call a good time and there will be seen no tanglehoofed Chinaman on the streets of Lincoln during the New Year sea son. That is not to say that they will not imbibe some, but what they drink will be a Chinese preparation wlili h makes a man feel frisky temporarily without intoxicating him. It is named Chinese whisky and no doubt many draughts will be taken during the two weeks ensuing from Keb. 7th. the evening of New Year's. Speaking of drinking, however, there is a game or' intoxication which the Chinamen play, deeply to the humiliation of the loser. It is the only game that some Ameri cans would be proud to lose. "Tis thus. The players are paired oiT. Operations begin without the aid of cards or shells or any other little de vice. The players present their hands, lists doubled. At a signal they extend their lingers or whatever number their whim dictates. Without stopping to ligure one of the players scans the fingers and guesses at the number. If his guess is wrong he takes a drink of grog. I!y turns they keep this up un til one or the other is drunk and this man, being the loser, of course, is made the derision of the assembled heathen. Uut that is only one of the games affected by the celestial. It is not by any means predominant in the New Year's festival. Peep into the China town of a big city, such as Denver or San Francisco, during the New Year's festival and you rest your eyes on a fairyland of Chinese decoration, ban ners, emblems, pennants, lanterns an,) the innumerable figures of the ingenu ity of the Flowery Kingdom. Yes, and you will hear something, too. Crack ling of firecrackers of all dimensions and capacities assails the ears and you see just how the inventors of these fashionable weapons explode them. It is a Fourth of July lesson to say the least. And then to travel among them and see just how they enjoy themselves! That Is when you get a .stunning revelation of the real inherent exuberance of spirits that slumbers under the tawny skin of the Chinaman during all the rest of the year. As for elaborate and costly wearing apparel discontinue your search right here for it is useless to seek farther. (Excepting in Lincoln. There are no rich Chinamen here and there will he no amazing sights. "Not enough peo ple." said Wall Lee to a Courier rep resentative when asked why the Lin coln Chinese would not celebrate in a body. "Cost too much," he added. "Do it in California, not here." He said they would eat and drink at home and a few might go to Omaha for two or three jlays. So while the others are having a huge time, burn ing incense ami smoking their queer little pipes and calling on each other and are embosomed in the brightest gayety, with business absolutely sus pended, the Lincoln contingent of six teen will keep right on with its work. Certainly in a way it is fortunate for Lincoln people who wear clothes that become dirty. For the city to go two weeks without the Chinese laundries might wreak no little uncleaiiness on the community. There will be no cause to worry on this score in Lin coln. Over their tubs and Hats the Chinese here will toil as usual and only enjoy themselves a little more In the evenings, sparing many thoughts for the houses and tablets of their more loyal tribesmen in the larger places who are luxuriating in the gi I diest fashion and they will have moie money to show for it at the end of the allotted time. All the woild ,v,i the good time will rule for two weeks, to mark the passage of the I.T.V.th year of their present cycle. It Is not a season regu lar in its coming. Its time Is variable. It dates from the apparent passage of the sun through the sign of Aquarius and commenced last year on Feb. 8th. Itut Irregular as it Is it is a yearly example of wholesome fellowship that has no parallel in Anglo-Saxon cus toms. Tables are spread with the daintiest viands, even if the menu It self is a nightmare. And to show their absolute distrust of one another they keep a custom of the ancient times and take food with their lingers from the vaiious tempting bowls spread about the board. It is a happy ming ling of philosophy and sentiment that they did not discard when they left theii kingdom across the sea. -v -' -v A v .1- Has a Strong Mead We were at the late Vice President llobart's home, ami a goodly number of us made up our minds to drink the Chinese minister's health quite fre quently. We had insidious designs. Wu discovered it. and time after time he stood llrm. serene, undisturbed. 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