Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-07-20
The North Adams cinnamon.

Being stranger, in strange land, and in
a certain sense obliged to learn our language
they have applied themselves with remark.
able energy and peristency to its mastery
and have been wonderfully successful. The
school children of North Adams have, with true
youthful enthusiasm and phlanthrophy, tax.
en- hold Of the task Of teaching them, and
may be seen morning, noon, and night, at the
factory pointing out external objects and tell.
ing their names, which the yellow boys re-
peat after them as closely as possible They
have acquired the names of the vegetables in
the garden already, and may be seen point
ing to each, and noddng emphatically as they
say squash, be-uns, " corn" and the
like. Then they have charts, such as are
used in infant schools, with pictures Of horses.
COWS, and other animals, from which their
juvenile tutors teach them the 3" Mclean "
for those creatures Of course, many have
hardly learned a word Of English yet, but
some Of them can already converse so as TO
be readily understood.
Next to Charley Ling, one of the most pro.
lcient in English is An My, bright little
fellow Of sixteen or thereabouts, with rotund.
jolly face and twinking black eyes lie did
not know one word of any language but Chi.
nese, when he came here three weeks ago, and
could not understand anything that was said
to him in English. Two or three DAYS after
his arrival, however, he surprised Mr. Chase
by enquiring Boss-man, you?" and en-.
couragcd by this success soon branched out
on " what you call ?" pointing to article after
article. The name being given, he would re.
peat It carefully to get the exact pronuncia-
ton if possible, and then 90 off repeating it
over and over again to himself, emphasizing
each time by nodding his head and shaking
his finger In this way, after two or three
hundred repettions, it would become fixed in
his memory, and by this process he has picked
up sufficient English to make himself under
stood IN ordinary conversation. asked him
day or two ago "Well, All My, are YOU
getting good deal Of English ?" and he re.
piled No, not talkoe much yet bime by.
putty soon, larn him." When asked how he
likes his work, he says MAY hab like him. ="
lie is one Of the smartest and jolIiost OF the
Chinese
These Cinnamon are as neat as cats. The
hrst day they arrived the whole afternoon and
evening was gwen up to additions, and by
ten O'Clock every man had not only bathed
and scrubbed, but had washed every stitch of
clothing he wore on the Journey, from hand.
kercheis to socks Since then not day has
passed that some of them are not in the am.
pie wash-room performing thouroueh ablu.
tons several of them taking a bath daily.
and none less often than once week They
shave their heads from once in fifteen DAYS to
once in three weeks each performing the CD.
Grafton for his neighbor. 1t is an amusing
sight to look In upon them early In the morn.
ing when ten or twenty of them may be seen
undergoing this thorough tonsorial manipula.
ton and coming out with gistenine sealing
save circular patch as large as the palm of
the hand on the crown, from which grows a
tress which is the envy of fashionable bellies
Tor ITS length and glossinoss. This is then
deXterously and particularly braided till it
resembles close, firm rope. There is but
one mirror in the party, small one about
iour inches square, hung at the end Of the
back room but it is sufficient, as their vanI.
" appears not largely developed
None Of the Orientals use liquor, and but
iour ofthem, including the two cooks, tobacco.
Neither are any addicted to opium or gam.
bling, both SO long considered distipctiyely
oh'nese vices. Either this party Is far su,