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The National tribune., 1889-04-04
FASHION NOTES.
[Goden's Ladn's Book


-Pinked-out ruches much used for the trim
ming of dresses
-Coifures are of all styles so as to suit all faces
Hair eombed up from the neck, flowing tresses,
catagons, coronets are all equally patronized by
fashion.
Gloves to be fashionable should follow certain
rules. For the morning, the glove should be of
dark kid with thick black seams; for the afternoon
it is of Suede kid with fine seams; for evening the
long kid glove, of light or medium shade reaching
up to the top of the arms.
Breton jackets continue to be very popular. A
pretty model can be made of brown velvet with
chamois-colored cloth vest and cuffs, embroidered
with brown and gold, and gold buttons and sequins
scattered over it. Other combinations of color can
be used They can be worn with cloth skirt of
the same shade as the velvet.
- The Empire scarf is three-quarters of yard
wide and two yards and half long and is brocaded
in antique tapestry effect, TO be worn either
sash drapery.
Printed ginghams for Summer wear are en-
tirely new and even prettier than those with
the colors patterns woven in. In these the de-
signs recall and often actually produce those of the
India or printed silks in large, spreading, floral
signs usually circular or curying shapes of some
sort
- That which gives great variety to modern toi-
lets is that upper skirt generally falls over the
under ounced one, in separate panels, eitherloose
slightly draped, fastened here and there with a
bow ornament of passementerie. Bodices are
also made in various styles; some are peaked and
some are round wasted; some are plain, and
others finely plated fully gathered Wide sashes
draped round the waist and tied at the side or
back.
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streets with number of Chinese characters
before them. With these they will tell all
about your future and your past. viii pre-
tend to shows you how to find lost things,
and will display all the attributes of seventh
son. They have 10 lack of patrons, and the
Chinese show their superstition in every act of
their lives. 1t is the same with the eul-
tured man of the literary class as it is with the
cody, and there is no such contrast of learn
ing and superstition, of virtues and great vices.
of things to admire and of things which fill
your soul with disgust to be found anywhere
else upon this big round earth. In no other
country, perhaps, has self-government been
carried to such an extent as in China, and
in few places are the officials so corrupt as here.
The national debt of the Chinese is, in COM
parison with the resources of the country and
the number of its people, the smallest of that OF
any of the great nations. The country has
comparatively few officials, and l am told that
1900 Mandarins suffice to govern these four
hundred millions. Everyone has a chance in
the Government, and the son of the cody to-
day who works for 81 a week may be the Gov
ernor of Province % years hence, receiving
his bribes of $25, 900 year. It is, altogether, a
mixture of much bad with sembanee of good ;
of mighty people naturally strong, rotten
and degraded with immortality; of energies
misdirected and of people oppressed by bad
Government, and of a gigantic human mass
which will need the leaven of ages before it
can be turned into anything like modern civil
izatiOn.-FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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PERSONS AND THINGS.

-Two-thirds of the cow-beIIs Of this country are
made at the little town of Collinsvie, H.. near St.
Louis. -Four shops engaged in the business,
and they turn out 80 dozen q day.
The Emperor of Austria has given orders that
his sons name shall never again be spoken in his
hearing.
Ex-senator Bradbury, of Maine, has almost
reached his SSth year in perfect mental and physi
cal health.
According to the venerable Hannibal Hamlin,
there are but three persons living who were in Con-
gress when he entered it. They are Jefferson Davis,
Mr. Bradbury, ofBIaine, and Mr. Fitch, of Michigan.
An English medical journal declares that the
number of infants smothered to death in England
by half-tpsy parents between sunset on Saturday
and sunrise Monday exceeds the mortality Of
any other nights in the week.
"A sporting man in Chicago was so certain that
his dog would win a proposed fight that he mort
gagged hisegar factory and all his ewelry, and even
persuaded his sweetheart to put up all her loose
cash. The other dog won, and his factory was
closed out and his girl committed suicide
Vienna is to have beauty show for men, and
prizes win be awarded in four classes: The hand
soonest man, the finest mustaehe the biggest nose
and the badest head.
The National tribune., 1889-04-04
CHTNAMEN CARRYTNG BUNpLEs.

than one horse he drives them tandem instead
of side by side, and it is not an uncommon
thing to see men, women and donkeys hitched
to wheelbarrows which another Chinaman
pushes. The Chinaman carries his burdens fas-
tened to two ends of stick which he rests
across his shoulders instead of throwing the
burden on his back rs our laborers do He
usually sculls his boat instead of rowing it, and
when he does row he stands up to the work in
stead of sitting down to it. He seldom washes
his body, and his usual ablutions are confined
to the rubbing of the face with hot, wet
towel He whitens the soles of his shoes in
stead of blacking them, and his shoes are cloth
instead of leather. In North China he sleeps
on the stove, aud in South China the average
bed is table of boards. His fuel is stubble and
straw instead of wood, and when he uses coal he
pounds it to powder, mixes it with mud, aud
sells it in cakes the size OF a biscuit. He often
cooks upon clay stove the size of two-gal-
Ion crock, and he likes to nibble between meals
at the seeds of the pumpkin and melon. lie
relishes the skin of an orange as well as the
flesh. and he always boils his water before he
drinks it.
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middle section of the Empire on the mighty
Yang Tse Kiang. Here in South China | have
visited the great city of Canton, the population
of which makes it rank in size with the great
est cities of the world; have seen Fuchau,
which has nearly a million people; have spent
some time at Annoy, which has been trading
port for over 1000 years. and have paid TWO
visits to the clean little seaport of Swatow,
which taps a province so thickly populated
that it has one city of million within 30 miles
of it, and another of half that size only 10 miles
away.
What a wonderful Empire this great King
dom is! And how hard it is for a Western
man to comprehend it, The people swarm.
Thousands tread upon the heels of thousands,
and every city has the crowds of great fair
from morning to evening year in and year out.
Ali are busy, and all are pushing, scraping,
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The Chinese mother has no cradle for her
baby. She straps it to her own back or that of
her servant when it is few days old, and if
she is working woman she goes about her
business with her baby on her back child's
age is dated year old at the time Of its birth.
and the exact hour at which the baby appears
isset down, in order that the prophets may fore
tell its future. The third day after the baby
of a rich Chnaman comes into this world the
relatives appear. and they have a feast of pork
patties and boiled flour balls When it is a
month old its head is shaved and it gets its
name AS soon as it begins to walk it is given
a pair of knit shoes with cats face on the
toes, and this is supposed to render the baby as
sure-footed as the cat.
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PLAYING WITH BIRDS. the clean foreigner is
different from that of the clean Chinaman 1t
is the same with the eats, and the Chinaman
does not like our smell any better than wo like
his. Chinese family of Shanghai lately lost
a very fine cat, which fell into the hands Of
some English friends of mine. After remain
ing with them some three weeks it returned to
its home, and the Chinese family finding that
it had been among foreigners gave it a good
serubbing with soap before they would permit
it to be petted by their children. The Chinese
cat of the North has Ao more tail than rabbit,
and the ladies of the palace at Peking are said
to be very fond Of the Angora cat. There is
one of these cats at the American Legation.
1t is three times as big as the full-grown Amer
lean pussy and it has silky yellow hair stand
ing out all over its body The stealing of cat
from a house in China is unlueky, and it is
chiefly in South China that cats and dogs are
raised for food. The funniest dog l have ever
seen is a Mongolian pug, which is brought over
the mountains from Tartary, and which is
much esteemed by the foreign ladies in China.
The English pug is handsome beside it, and its
peculiar mark of beauty is two shaekley bow
legs which ornament the front part of its body.
1t walks as though its front legs had been too
long and they had been broken down to fit the
hinder ones. The Chinese horses are ponies.
mon means of locomotion in South China is by
the wheelbarrow and the sedan chair. The
wheelbarrow is the dray Of China, and the buff
falo and the COW largely take the place of draft
horses. When your Chinaman drives more
The National tribune., 1889-04-04
History OF the 10Th III.

Geo. W. Herr, Co. G. 50th ILL.,, 1920 Fifteenth
street, Sacramento, Cal, contemplates writing
history of that gall>ut regiment. He calls for
correspondence with comrades of the regiment,
and desires them to write their personal expe-
riences, giving recollections of things pathetic
and things odd and funny; things pertaining
to iollifcation, love, courtship chickering's,
jeaOusies, characterization, tyranny, cruelty,
etc Anything of interest to the old boys win
be gladly received.
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He Did His Share.
[Binhamton Republican,

LBinhalnt0lt Repu6Llcnn.
Ny friend" said a solemn man, have you
ever done aught to make the community in
which you live the better for your living in
it."
ST have done much, SIR" replied the other
humbly, I" to purify the homes of my fellow
beings"
"Ah," continued the solemn man with
pleased look, "you distribute tracts?"
No. clean carpets"
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cies Of our Boston girls are not often found
among the Celestials.

The Chinese have their compasses but the
end of the Chinese needle points to the south
instead of to the north The Chinese believe
that the earth is fat; that the soul is located
in the liver, and that the heart is the seat of
understanding. Their theory of the origin of
the world has nothing to do with ours. They
look upon their Emperor as holy, and when he
dies he is called the Guest of Heaven. He is
known as the Dragon and his wife is POLITICALLY
called the PhGnix, and the marriage, which is
to take place at about the time this letter is
printed, of the Emperor and the Manehu
maiden, will be that of the Phoenix and the
Dragon. The Chinaman wears button on his
cap instead of epaulets on his shoulders, to in
dicate his rank, and feathers take the place of
stars and medals. With us the boy is the most
important one of the family, and young Amer
lea often rules. 1t is not so here; the grand
father bosses the ranch and the old mother-in-
law rules the roost. Old men have their
amusements, even as the boys, and dull eyes
looking out of withered Sits, watch kites fast
ened to strings which they hold in their palsied
hands while their gray pigtails float upon the
breeze. Grown men go about the streets doing
their business with their birds in their hands.
The birds have strings tied around their necks,
and their owners throw up grains of corn and
loosing the birds they catch the corn as it falls.
Birds in China take the place Of dogs and cats
as pets with US, and if [ were asked the chief
amusement of the Chinese man or boy, my an
swer would be the playing with and petting of
birds.
The National tribune., 1889-04-04
Special Correspondence national TRIBUNE.
Hone KoHG CHINA, March, 1885,

LEAVE tomorrow for
Siam, and this is my
last letter from China.
/ have now spent two
months of continuous
travel among the Ce-
lestials, and have visit
ed the greatest cities
of the Ea stern sea-
coast and have taken
a number of excur-
sions into the interior.
/ spent two weeks i'll
and about Peking,
sailed by boat
through som e of the
great rivers of North
China, and had a taste
of tho iptarior. Of tho
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Fashions Changes.

Mr.. De StyIe-Why, my dear, Pm glad to see
you so composed. When 1 left this morning
you were weeping and wailing and tearing
your hair, because Fido was sick.
Mrs. De Style-Well, you see, just after you
left Mrs. Tiptop came in and told me that dogs
of Fido's breed were going out of fashion. So
dried my tears and kicked him out.
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ITabe continued.1
A YANKEE Girls Idea

A New England Sundayschool-te teacher had
for lesson the story of the Prophet Elijah and
the widow whose whole supply of food, when
the man of God asked for refreshment, was
not a cake, but handful of meal in a barrel
aud little oil in a cruse." When the teacher
asked her class how much food the widow had,
the answer came quickly from one little fellow |:
" She had just enough meal to make cake
and oil enough to start a fire."
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His Present.
[Nel0 YORK. H'eekly.1

Sweet Girl-Mother. George told me sol
emnly that that pretty hair-pin holder he gave
me cost $5; yet to-day I saw exactly the same
kind on sale for 10 cents.
Mother-You know, my dear, George is very
religious. Most likely he bought that at a
church fair
The National tribune., 1889-04-04
SCIENTIFIC CHAT.

"A young daughter of Milton Blake, of Keene,
n. H., became seriously and mysteriously i'll.
Finally it was suggested that the illness might be
due to the new green flannel dress she had been
wearing. A piece of the goods was analysed by a
chemist aud found to be heavily loaded with
arsenic The girl had been poisoned.
The National tribune., 1889-04-04

The most common sights on these Chinese
streets is the gambling. The Chinese are a ma
tion of gamblers and men, women and children
are addicted to it. At Macao, an island owned
by the Portuguese, only few miles from here is
the Monte Carlo of China 1t is kept ND by
gambling, and the Government gets its chief
revenue from the licensing of fan-tan estab-
lshments. Fan-tan is the great Chinese gam
bling game. You find hundreds of fan-tan
haunts in every city and it is probably one Of
the fairest games of chance known. 1t is bet
ting on the number of cash that will be left
when the pile is reduced by a continued series
of fours. The figures l, 9, aud q are mark
ed upon table, around which the gamblers
stand and at which the manager sits.
The gamblers put down their money on the
number which they expect to win, and if they
succeed they get three times the amounts of
their stake When this double handful of con-
per coins, each about the size of big red cent,
is ready, and the stakes are placed, the dealer,
with stick, moves away four coins at time.
If at the end only three coins remain, all of
those who have money on the number three get
three times the amount of their venture, less
seven per cent for the bank. If four coins are
left, number four gets it, and so on The bank in
any case gets its seven per cont, and the man
who continues to play is sure to be beaten.
The Chinese cook rshops all over the Empire
have bamboo tubes as big around as n tin cum
a number of long sticks, on the end of which
are little dots similar to those on the dice.
The man who wants meal pays so many
tenths of a cent for q chance, and he pulls ont
certain number of sticks. If these have the
winning dots upon them, he gets double
quantity. If he loses he gets nothing. You
find men gambling with dice at every corner.
There are gamblers everywhere, and bets are
always made on cards and dominoes Cock
lighting is common, and quail fighting is one
of the sporting games of these Chinese. The
quaiis are put on table with rails about it, on
which some grains of wheat have been strewn.
The quails fight over the food, and there are
bets as high as 500 as to the winning bird
Cricket fighting is another common gambling
match among the Chinese and these crickets
arc trained to fight. They are urged on to
the combat with straws, and they fight to the
death. good fighting cricket is very valuable,
and the fighting is always done in a basin
which is placed on the ground or a table, and
the company gathers around and watches the
combat.
Dafora ron,i1ov J,a.,t,,a l.
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oial, and kicked and
cuflied by everyone.
They have coarse, brist-
ling hair, and their tails
curl straight over their
backs. They can smell
a foreigner as far as they
can see him, and it is
said that the smell of
The National tribune., 1889-04-04

We leave, and are again upon the busy
street j note that the people turn to the left
instead of to the right in passing each other,
and the seat Of honor to a guest in China is at
the left instead Of at the right, as in America.
With u.s. too, the smaller the visitng-eard of
gentleman the better the form. In China the
bigger the card the greater the man. We make
our visiting-eards white. The Chinaman would
be insulted with a white card, and his name is
printed in the biggest of black letters on strips
Of red paper as large AS the size we use in our
social letter-writing. We engrave our names
from left to right across the card. He prints
his up and down it, and he puts his family
name first and his first name last 1t is the
same in reading. The Chinaman begins at the
back of the book and reads toward the front.
The numbering of the pages is at the bottom
instead of at the top, and the printing is on
one side Of the page only, and the contents are
at the end of the chapter. 1t is the same with
the schools and study. The Chinese boys learn
their lessons out loud, all studying at the same
time and making a din like that of Babel
When they recite they turn theiz backs to the
teacher, and when they write they use paint
brush instead of a pen. The Chinese are
nation Of students, and gray hair does not unfit
a man for school. The old as we'll as the young
study, and old boys of so may be found at the
examinations. The girls are given little
schooling, and there is no co-education of the
where, dressed in mems clothes, they have
entered the examination halls, but these are
very rare, and young ladies with the tenden-
The National tribune., 1889-04-04
CHINESE CUSTOMS
Tie PeculiaritieS of the Almond Eyed
Heathen BunChed Together.

Chinese Daily Life Versus that Of the American
Boiled Bread and PekIed Eggs-White for Mourn
ing, and Red for WeddiBgs-Chinese Visiting
{ Cards-HOW the Men Read and the Boys Stndy-
Sh9Tt-failed Cats and BOW-legged DOgs-Chinese
Babies-The Bird the National Pet, and How
Old Men Fly Kites-The Gambling, the Cricket
Fights and Fan-Tan-Chinese SuDerstitiOns, and
Word About the Celestial Problem of the
Future.
LCoPYRIenTED BY FRANK G. cAEPENTER 1s8S.1
The National tribune., 1889-04-04

Take walk with me through one of these
big Chinese cities, and let us look at some of
the petty differences of the Chinese and the
American civilizations Here is a eook-shop.
1t stands on the street, and its pigtailed owner
displays his food before the eyes of his custom
ers The bread is boiled instead of baked, aud
such eggs as are served are picked and salted.
No Chinaman eats a parboiled egg, and the
older an egg is in point of picking the better
it pleases him. Here come one of the cooks
friends. He salutes him, and he does this not
by shaking his friends hand. but by putting
his own hands together and shaking them.
The Chnaman does not kiss. He seldom en-
braces, and he considers it etiQuet to keep his
hat on his head in the house rather than to
take it Off He has different rules of politeness
from us, but his rules are as fixed as ours, and
they are as rigidly observed by him.
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quarreling and fighting for a livelihood. The
sights of every city are different, and in the
most minute matters the people are the direct
opposites from u.s. They like their way better
than ours. We call them heather. They sneer
and call rs barbarians. We dislike their food.
They viii not eat ours. And the cooks of the
foreigners never taste the viands they are dish
ing up for their masters. and prefer their rice
to our roast-beef.
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The Chinese dogs are not like the American
dogs. They are, as a rule, mangey, black mon
grels scabby and sore who go about with their
tails between their Ices eating the vilest Of
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nIYORCES-AG GOODRICH, ,ATTOgNEY-AT-LAW
IL I24 Dearborn ST. Chicago H. Advice Free q years
experience Business quietly and legally transacted
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Here is man dressed in white. There are
white strands of silk in his queue, and his shoes
are whitened. 1t looks like this man is in
mourning. Behind him comes another, gorge
Gus in light blue. Yon suppose him attired for
festival or wedding, but your guide tells you
that blue is half-mourning in China, and that
all Cinnamon give feast when the days of
their mourning are over.
Look at the tradesmen. Everything seems
Ieft-handed. The eoopers and blacksmiths
work with their toes as well as their hands.
Their tools are the rudest, and the razor
makers chisel bars of steel into knives instead
of grind them. Here is woman. She wears
pantaloons, and behind her comes man in a
silk gown which reaches to his heels The
men wear no boards, and braid their hair
down their backs. The women smoke, and
many of the men snuff. What difference in
the dress The Chinese women do not lace,
and their gown-like sacks fall from their
shoulders to below their hips There is no
exposure of the bosom or the neck, and only
the poorest of them are seen upon the streets.
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SSa2SS 4 MONTH AGENTS gVsEzteE 30 best sen.
sAZsAa ing articles in the world / sanloIS s'~ss
4Y4O SAddFess IA 7 BRONSON LlsfT5tt lTseS
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Look at their feet. How they mince and tot
ter as they walk along, and how their en-
broidered shoes, with French heels, barely
support them. I turn into a side street aud
come into an open court / am inside the walls
of Mandarin's residence, and dozen Chinese
girls belonging to the family start hurriedly
from their play. The feet of some of them are
so small that they cannot walk, and here one
girl of II throws her arm around the neck and
shoulders of a servant and is carted away on
her back. Her little feet stick out, and the
wind shows more crinoline than the Chinese
laws allow. Her leg is bound nearly to the
knee, and the calf is wanting. The binding of
the feet destroys the calf, though it thickens
the thigh, and Chinese girls legs are pipestems
from knee to ankle.
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1Fz ENNESSEE.-For a list OF 500 farms for ssIs
IN this state address W. II. ss'FETES & f,fp
so y; Cherry street. Nashville, Tenn
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Before gambler begins to play he always
consults the oracles as to luck, and he sacrifices
to his joss. The Chinese believe in fortune
telling, and you see these men sitting on the
The National tribune., 1889-04-04

IhNN AGENTS clear SiSC Monthly wish my
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Convertible Wire Basket The HANDY - selr-f,ytsn
ing Button Emery Knife and Mower Sbauapar s-saffs
send Tor catalogue and terms Clement 4 Co (hicaro
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New Be Book RANCE wishousa teacher Latest dances.
itftS 40 SSssssz full Instructions and our eiec-nk
pase lIlStrated story paper months only 10 cents
address The HOsaE CIRCLE, ST. Louis. hHo.
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ADVICE TO DYsPEPTIcS.

HONTENTS; Dyspepsia and IFS causes Experiences
" of sufferer. Liver complaint a twin disorder.
Constipation result Of dyspepsia Food 70 be taem.
Food % be avoided Mailed free 70 any address
JOHN II. McALYIS Lowell, Mass. IA Years city Treas
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