Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-12-04
7 CHILDREN OF THE CHINESE.
yoaqui. Miller Taiks About the Little
 c.l.stial.-Afectionats Creatures

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 csIestials-Aneetionst Creatures
 To one who has seen all the world, there is not SO much that is picturesque in the Chinese colony here; and could not truthfuIly indorse nearly all that enthui- astic tourists say of either their shrewd- ness or interest in any way. For example, .s A lack of common sense. they have marble and stone seats in one of their big stores here, to accommodate customers. The best and biggest of these stone seats have marble backs Enough to paralyze the spine of white man-even a China man. I should think-in i've minutes And I could go through the colony here all day. aud pick out dozens of like exhibi- tions of a low order of common sense.
 some cUlor is to be found here, and that is A relief to the eye which has to put up with the mournful dress of the average Ameri ican, after a residence in Mexico. But it is not very picturesque. The pig tail Is simply repulsive. And Christian Chinaman who had his hair cut is hardly more attractive. His coarse, thick Tartar hair is perhaps at its best when closely shaven and tied up in a cue, after all. As for the rolling. lolling, lazy and hideously helpless Chinese women. know of no ob- feet to which you can safely apply that much used and much abused word, dis gusting, as 10 one of these pitiful and to- tally inane creatures.
 The one real and uninterrupted delight here is the Chinese children They are not very numerous; but they are bright, won derfuIly full of fun, and very beautifully dressed. There is a confusion of sex. how
 I fafI that a MQNirz n boy baby puts on his little pantaloons she day he is born and wears them right along' We'll, the babies of both sexes here seem to do that, so far as can find out
 It Is worth while any day 10 climb the hill into the heart of San Francisco, and half way to the top, to see thess children run and tumble and laugh and play Tn their peel uliar and highly colored clothes, just like other children They have not much room. but they are choek f1ll or heart and light spirits, and make the most of what little room they have in their mar row streets. Like a little donkey or lit tie darky, the Chinaman is at his best, so far as personal levity goes, when he Is yrry small
 No trouble seems to come this way for these kittenish little heaIhens, these curi- ous little citizens, tumbiing around under the legs of their sedate sires up here on the pleasant hill overlooking the glorious bay and all the battle ships. The boycott and the Chinese question are terms which I reckon they have never heard And whatever may oe tied up for them in their uncertain future. let them shout out the spirit of play that is in them now Co the full Care will come soon enough to our colored citizens of Asiatic descent
 The Chinese parent is the most affection ete ever saw among all the nations of the earth. And this may be in part be- cause the children are not numerous here; but it Is no guess work to say that it is largely because the child reveres the parent. To see little fellow quit his play suddenly and run and lay his little red or yellow silk head up against his adoring father. as he stands on the sidewalk watching him, is funny, if not affecting Joaquin Miller in Chicago Times.