New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-29
THE CHINESE AT HOWE.

4 LARGE audience gathered in the hall OF the
Cooper Union last evening hear lecture 10y +. &.
Drew Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Gus
TOMS His subject The Chuese at Home"
The chief characteristic of the Chinese, as Nation,
the speaker said il industry Their working day begins
II dawn and lasts till sunset Schools open at sunrise
and do not close till r. H., there Uein but one short
cess during the day The Emperor and his court rsc
soon after midnight and Court audiences given be-
msry is Exhibited by ali classes Alter sunset very few
people are the streets, the Chinese, ike domestic
low is retiring early T4ere II day correspond
ing TO sunday and only a few hOhddlH IN the year
Busily as they these people never M hurry
neV nervous ana are not gwen u Worrying; but are
steady cheerful and sober They rarely quar-
ret and even # they do, seldom come % blows.
There will be little quene pu!Ilhs, hohe
calling OF hard Names and then the bystanderr
Will quietly separate the cOmOalanl% III Is
not ply timiy, Out sensitive consciousness Of
the disgrace hting that keeps them rom engaging
in braws Thst they not towards Is well proven by
the fact that they submit without hnennE To tne most
severe surgical operations without ever using ana5-
theucs. They maintain that 1t Is very lnJl 10
health To be nervous 10 worry OF 10 Ne wa! 10 anger
As "A people the Chinese do not desire voice III the
Government. The common people are not puhlcspr-
lied aud are not "h!y through ignorance huHtIth 10
beneficial reforms but they oppose them strongly II they
are APT increase the taxes The Government OF China
il not nearly so arlsocIallc az lotl-hcfT I '7tocu
TO think e. but when the popular Nocels once aroused
IS a conflict between the Mandarin, Govern Of dis
irct ana people, If the people patient ana com
removed by the Government The people have the pro-
fouudest respect precedent ana IN fact,
thew use the sane implements and materials known
TO them thousands Ot years yet their religion Itself
N au importation from India, ana they use foreign
Watches needless Kerosene, sulphur matches, cotton
fabrics etc. They are as people excessively polite
and their ceremonial social intercourse Is TO trcg-
ers painfully elaborate. Ii If an error 40 suppose, now
over that they are "A Crlngng race they assert their
riohis vigorously enough when occasion calls.
Iuev are not a tTuth-tcllng people. Ihrj gave Idsc
ov,Jcncr in trials furnish false iCs. ana Of
IDEALS present reports that are TISSUES o. idsrho0d
IL is impossible 10 shame then D. exposing
trcir rutLfulness. 1nry are lot AdI.cIci
TO theying. however There Is much saii about Tue
grs immortality o. tbs people. la G. liza, al rasl, n II
oKlsts il n pot seen There are societies Tor t"r sup
preston OF immoral books The tayrci Writings con
lain moi one indecent word ana iher pal ting ana
scupure are pc iecty pure Vulgar Language n naEcr
heard above The lowest classes. All Caluanrh drhA
wine native beverage male 81 rice uui dfunh-
cnEess II absolutely unkBOwn, 80 at there are one o
Inc evils utelIpcrancc there 80 common LCic-"lIe
heating brawug aud violence OF all KINDS The habit
that ses The Nation, opium Alnk, t-csNAtcs tht
plslea mental and moral nature Dul does hOt le@d u
violence.