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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.
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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.
Later when the men who had tried
to get the bettei of .Minister Wu were
groping blindly toward the balustrades
and shakily trying to preserve their
equilibrium, Wu. smiling, sedate, calm,
philosophical, ami in that keen ap
preciation of our Kuglish language of
which he is so pat. said, nodding Ids
head to the tiiispcediug parting guests:
"They they tried to saturate me.
didn't they?" Charles ICinory Smith In
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