The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-24
TATTOOED TARTARS.
Hoy a Chinaman Derives an Income
of 100000 a Year.

of 100000 a Year.
The chief of Chinese chiropodists has an
Office on Dupont street, and in appointments
If is an oriental wonder. All Foo is his
name. writes correspondent of tie Chi
cago Herald, and he tells the story that his
father is an influential merchant of Pekin,
who willingly backed his son in the enter
nrise that he suggested, and All Foo is now
doing a business that is estimated at $780,
OO0 per annum Not that he can remove
corn more deftly than an American chiropo-
dist. but because tine desire of the wealthy
To patronize every novelty presented to
them crowds his spacious and elegant apart
ments day and night.
Twenty operators of his own nationality
assist him, and in the reception rooms and
consultation rooms, there are magnlticently
furnished with furniture, tapestries, carpets
and bric-a-brac of the Chinese manufacture,
there are servants both male and female III
attractive oriental uniforms.
Men are not treated. Women are the
only patients ever admitted to Al Foo's
apartments, and before his door, at all
hours of the day and far into the night,
stand the family carriages of the wealthiest
citizens of San Francisco.
Patient and operator never look into each
others faces. Running the entire length of
the operating room, which is an apartment
nearly GUO 1oCU iOASS 10 q OCouOitt1ly Gill
broidered screen set on bamboo frame.
The screen is II feet high and divided
on both sides into small apartments, or
stalls, about 10 feet square. In one of these
stalls the patient seats herself, and on the
opposite side of the screen is the operator
Near the bottom of the screen is a long
narrow opening through which the patient
thrusts her foot after she has stripped 1t for
treatment, and rests it on dainty foot-rest
upholstered with velvet, before which the
operator kneelS.
Standing parallel with the screen in the
APARTMENT occupied by the patient is a
couch, across which is thrown an orient al
rug, and on this the patient sits or recline,,
as She pleases, while the operator is at work
on the opposite side of the screen. Each
stall is furnished with a bamboo paper
rack, in which are placed daily and pictorial
papers.
The method for removing corns employed
by All Foo and his employees is a secret
among themselves. He advertises to remove
them without applying knife or caustic, and
it is true that whoever patronizes his estab-
lishment never suffers pain.
All Foo instructed his operators in the
method he employs personally, and upon
the most sacred oath known to the religion
of Confucius bound them to secrecy regard
ing it, and all of his operators are under
contract to remain in his employ ten years,
at the end of which time it is quite prob
able he will be ready to retire from active
life
To be treated by All Foo himself costs
one an extra $40 an hour, and even at this
exorbitant charge his time is nearly all
occupied while the doors of his establish
ment are open.
To have had your corns removed and the
nails of your toes polished by All Foo, if
you are a lady and dweller of San Fran
cisco, is an advertisement that admits you
at once into the good grace of your neigh
boris wife, no matter how rich or exclusive
she may be.
The consulting room is furnished with
speaking tubes, arranged conveniently near
chairs, so that the person who wishes to
give special Instructions or information re-
garding the treatment she requires may
sit down while coversing with the opera
tor.
When she has finished number is given
to her which indicates the operator to
whom she has been talking, and when he
Is ready to treat her case she is ushered
into the stall, the number of which cur
responds with the number that has been
given her,
A light bamboo door is closed behind her.
She removes her shoes and stockings,
thrusts her feet through the opening, settles
back on the couch, and gives herself up to
the comforts of her surroundings until the
little silver bell in the corner is rung by the
operator, which announces to her that her
Instructions have been followed out.
Ia the reception room, through which the
patient has to pass to reach the street. she
pays the cost of her visit at the rate of IS
az hour from the moment she entered the
door. Alb Foo does his work for cash. He
gives credit to no one