Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-05-13
PICKS REAL BOY.
A Little Story From Chinatown About
His PAS TrihniafIoas.

"a. w. Peck and family, Miiwau-
kee,'' Is the way they are registered
at the Palace. Detective jackson
thinks that there are about ten boys,
ell OF the same size, In the family,
while the elevator men will swear
there are not less than %. In fact,
there Is but one, but he makes HIM
self very numerous, and his fund OF
conversation is apparently inexhsus-
tihle.
"Say, hub, his giblets wants a
cocktail brought to his room right
away" said the bad boy to O bell
boy yesterday, as he carelessly stuck
a piece of toothpick IN the electric
bell connected with the elevator and
brought the machine up flying.
What giblets?" asked the bell
hoy, after the elevator man had been
pacitie,l and returned to lis labors.
an this house there are 4S n,bs, 81
nobs, IS jags, II outlets and s glib
lets. Which one do you mean?"
"Well, you are a chump," and
the bad boy looked at the bell-boy
with pity in his eye. why. I mean
my pa. You must know my pa.
He's the big, stout Ounce who came
in last night with his necktie under
his right ear and tried to shampoo
himself with a hand grenade"
"Oh, yes, I know him now" said the
bell-boy. He's the gentleman l
helped to his room, and who tried to
borrow a dollar off me to pay the bu-
reau."
That's the old boy" assumed the
bad boy. ''Did you hear why he
got full? You didn't? Well, you
ought to have been along with us
last night, and you'd a died. 1t was
awful funny. Pa got into the worst
fix you ever see. You know pa and
ma and me went up to Chinatown
last night. Pa he paid that fat po-
liceman down stairs $40 to see us
through, cos the clerk with the fuzzy
black whiskers and foreign dialeck
said he was the best in town. The
policeman he wore a diamond, and q
high hat, and ma thought she would
surely be introduced to some Chinese
princes. So she put on her fine fix.
ms, and pa he bloomed in a white
necktie and gray gloves. l tell you
they we're just galumptious. When
we got to Chinatown and went into 6
place the policeman called C"lonee
alley pa and ma were just paralyzed,
Pa thought the sewer must have
bust, and ma said that something
must have crawled in and died. The
boy that works in the carriage Office
down stairs told me the other day
that Chinatown smelt awful. and ]
put some of mas perfume on my
handkerchief, so I didn't notice it
I would nave told pa and ma, only
heard pa tell the policeman that ht
wanted to enjoy it and l thought I'c
let him. l don't think it right fol-
boys to interfere with their parents
/, enjoyment, do you? Well, aftel
awhile the policeman he saw that m,
was getting sick and told pa that hi
would take US right into the Chine'
theater.
"Well, he dragged ma ahead will
r him down into the cellarand through
: a lot of dark alleys, pa and me foller
ing right behind. Pretty soon "
come up into a big room with a 10
: of Cinnamon and women sittin!
4 about all rugged up in funny-lookini
/ clothes and painted up to the teeth
Pa got stuck on a dizzy Chinee dais'
and went over to give her the bust
q ness, while ma was looking at n o
t the bulliest daggers you ever saw
The policeman told me then that al
: the women was men, and that pa
= : mash was the healthy young galoo
: who gave two fellers named Sconchil
I and Cook the slip when they tried t
T get him arrested for coming to thi
country. Then the policeman toll
d me to tell pa and ma, when we wen
y on the stage to see the acting, nc
to applaud, because the Chinese don
like it. Well, he said it so quic
n and offhand like that I thought b
e was foolin'. I ALWAYS thought tbs
actors liked applause, and asked I
if they didn't. He said yes, of cours
and asked me to applaud when b
mash appeared.
le "Pa went on the stage first wit
the policeman, and L whispered
- ma not to make any noise. 1 new
saw so many Chinese in all my lif
d The theater was jammed, and tt
J. Chinese were packed like sardine
e We stood there for a little while b
!, fore pas mash came out. but pa W
N watching for her. Suddenly it can
waltzing out, and struck an attitud
l. 'Ah-h-h,' howled my pa. Brave
!. Hooray!' and he clapped his ham
and stamped like he was crazy.
le "Well, / thought the house wou
n fall in. The policeman and ma W
4. not near enough to stop him, and,
- a minute, the whole house was y,
ling perfectly awful. Pa thong
le they was chipping in with him, al
er yelled louder than before. Then
s, took off his hat and hollered for thr