The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-23

CagO has several churches whose female
communicates labor under the impress
sion that they have been called by Prov
idence to reform the almond-eyed laun-
drymen dwelling within tho limits Of
the worlds fair city, and they leave no
stone unturned to reach the erring
heather hearts OF the cnterprisinr
youths who Sunday after Sunday devour
lucid explanations OF some particularly
striking Scripture truth.
The Cinnamon listen to their fair in
structors with apparent zeal, indulging
in interruptions only when the teacher
uses word whose meaning they can not
grasp. Then they riso for information,
and tho information SO received Is pre-
served, with a good many chuckles, in
the Celestial memory. For, to tell tho
whole truth and nothing but the truth,
the Chinaman attends Sunday school for
the purpose OF learning English and not
for religious consolation. lie is above
all things practical, and realizes that it
would cost him considerable money to
hire regular teacher, while the pious
church worker imparts to him ali neccs-
sary information free of charge. The
instruction so received the pupil re-
the hours gpert in church are an excel
lent Investment
Ono notable fact about these Chinese
Sunday-schools is that each pupil in
sistS upon having n teacher all to him :.
self, and if by chance two arc requested
to listen to the same instructor tho
hideous fellows become sullen and
threaten to withdraw from the school,
Instead of taking them by their word
and erasing their names from the roll Of
membership, the women who have
charge of the school humor them and
condescend to enter into long-winded
explanations why Miss So-and-So, Sam
Lees instructor, was absent from her
accustomed place on this particular Sab
bath.
But it is not alone in the Sabbath
school where the pctticoated mission
aries make themselves ridiculous, for
many OF them carry their infatuation 80
far as to visit their pupils" in their
filthy laundries, and some of them have
been known to invite them to their
homes.
All OF these courtesics Sam accepts as
a matter of course, and many an agree
: able hour is spent in the basement
washing emporiums in ridiculing tho
devotion Of teachers who have forgotten
both their womanliness and dignity by
making heroes of very ill-mannered,
designing and filthy coolies, who are
unable TO appreciate any thing that may
be donc to better their moral and ma
terial condition.
1t is true Chicago numbers among its
Chinese inhabitants men OF education
and great business capacity who have
acquired handsome fortunes in the land
of their adoption, but they are limited
in number, more exclusive than Mac
Allister's four hundred, and can not be
reached by missionary enterprise of tho
Sunday-school variety. All Cinnamon,
irrespective of social position, it must
be remembered, look upon women as in
ferior beings, and have been taught to
regard member of the softer sex who
shows herself to men as q pariah. No
amount of argument can convince them
of tho fallacy Of this belief, and even
those laundrymon who have chosen
white wives-there are q dozen Of these
In Chicago-have no respect for tho sex.
Gambling Is the besetting sin Of
Cinnamon, and, although they may pro-