Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-29

their bodies,-and it is
to have to write that our race
-things calling themselves men)-
nightly waste their life's blood and
squander their money in Chinese dens
Of iniquity. When asked why they fire.
luent these disreputable haunts, they
shrug their shoulders and reply that
sits novelty, and they are tired of
white women" So it goes, from one de-
gree of degradation to another, until
they sink to the lowest depths. God
forgive those who thus pollute them
selves!
In the opium dens one meets with in
difference and Incidence; but go where
the Chinese gambling game, yelept
"Tan," is conducted, and you have all
the animation you desire, and more.
Dupont street is filled with ''dives'
wholly given up to gambling hells. All
the rooms above these cellars reeklng |
with filth, are occupied by Chinawomen, |
who stand in their door-ways and solicit
patronage in what is here known as
"pigeon English" But Bartlett alley"
"Spotford alley" and other dingy alley
ways which smell to heaven, ARE literally
teeming with diseased Chinese strum-
pets, who clamor for custom. Alas, they
do but follow the precedent set them by
the thousands of brazen white women
who are plying their nefarious avocation
in rapid San Francisco.
There is much licentiousness here. 1t
is bad enough in the older cities, but
the newer ones seem to be more sought
after by the dissolute. In a recent effort
to check the "concert saloon business"
here, a policeman testified that the lou
yonaen, selling beer IN these hell-holes,
sDere chaste. Nearly all Of these haunts
of vice are licensed. and quite beyond
legal jurisdiction. 1t is not alone with
the young profiigates that so much sin
exists. 1t is but short time since a
wealthy broker stepped his name in
everlasting infamy by permitting his
mistress to occupy his elegant mansion,
and to be seen Haunting his downfall by
driving his stylish laudeau, behind his
spanking team, through the principa
thoroughtares of San Francisco, during
his wife's absence in Europe. Wher
|, such examples are set, is it to be won
} dered at that there are SO many elegan
Il (?) "hoodlums" in this wicked city?
: Pardon the above depression. Tht
, "Chinese quarter" has not been quite
: finished.
A celestial drama is somewhat lengthy
4 Like New York Ledger serial, it is al
ways Ito be continued" Fancy pla.
lasting thirty consecutive nights. d.
you imagine you could sit it out?
OF course there is Chinese marke
The Orientals revel in unripe fruit
, rice and such parts of animal food a
Christians would reject; for instance
they will roast whole pig. cut it il
. twain, and expose it GntacD for sale.
:, At table, they adhere to their chop
I, sticks; and it is something remarkabl
e to see how dexterously they enginee
their food to their mouths. They neve
1 miss the mark
u IF you have never seen Chinese laur
dry, it will interest you to know ho,
they wash and iron. One thing is Gel
tain; the Cinnamon monopolize this sol
'' of work in Frisco. They have no ne,
. appliances. They either use the wash
board or else they wet the garment
y thoroughly, and beat them against
> board the latter process is what so con
pletely wears out the articles given thel
to be cleansed. They are destructiv
When the clothes are ready to be ironet
e they sprinkle them in novel manne
y namely: by throwing a spray of waite
!" from either end of their mouth, until til
shirt, or whatever they may be about
r press, is dampened. They suck the watt
from a basin placed conveniently ne:
= them, before they commence ironini
- and actually hold the water in the
:. mouths -sprinkling at intervals-un
~ the garment is finished. Each time tn
- they send the water forth, one fanci
that they have no more in their mouth
IL but you can never judge anything by t
es expression of Chinaman's face.
be Johnny and Mary will ever be villai
d. ously dirty, because they prefer filth
es cleanliness. Occasionally a corpule
I'd Cinnamon is seen; but, as rule, tn
are cadaverous-looking lot, and if y
r, once inhale the terrible odors emanatil
mt from their dives and garrets, you wou
ed wonder that they had any flesh left
OF their bones. If it were not for the nc
81 city of the scenes which greet the eye
he Chinatown, disgust would soon drive o
ey away from the domiciles of these yello
lat clay -hued Orientals. But curiosity i
'rd pels one to "do' Chinatown, as it is O
'h- of the sights of San Francisco.
all 1t will crafty your readers to kn'
that our centennial fourth has be
icy splendidly commemorated in Californ
Frisco has been gaily decorated for t
to weeks. Sham battles, on land and v
nd ter, excursions, parades, and all sorts
,hs diversions have been indulged in. Il
e due to the Californians - say that IL
'ck rarely do things by hal IS. They spe
uel their money literally, but they alw;
be- wish it to be distinctly understood tina
to is all tor: California. 1t always see
ays as though they rather regretted bele
go ing to the United States. When b'
ness or pleasure takes a Californian e;
tals if you ask him where he is going,
ey, will speak as though he gloried in Ike
gs, ing to the old Spanish ideas, and ,
at glibly answer: 4 am going to the stat
While there is much to please the
of here, it is far from being the parad
the that gushing penny-a-liners would h;
ma you believe it.
pa Thousands of laboring men, mech
Isle les. and mice young men who part IL
till hair in the middle are here, waiting
ere something to turn up. Every in-com
on train brings Il load more. The hardsl
h it the UNEMPLOYED endure here would