Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-06
All CHING FO'S WILL.

II you CHANGED to walk south on Mott
street four years ago l have no doubt
you saw Johns laundry. 1t was in the
basement Of big tenement house.
| Through the open windows one might
| have seen John at work, sprinkling the
| clothes through his teeth-a la mode
Chinoise-or, perhaps, polishing a re-
/ fractory shirt front. At all events, there
he stood for ten good hours every day,
with that smile Of bland idixcy that,
/ among strangers, the Cinnamon wears
ike a mask.
Above stairs in the tenement dweit al
sorts and conditions of people. There
were broken down gamblers, Irish labor
ers, Jew peddlers and a few swell
negroes given to faring scarfs and much
cheap hair oil 1t was in two dingy
rooms at the back and up three pairs Of
stairs that Old Otto Won Haeckel and his
pretty daughter Lischen lived. Herr Won
HAeckei earned few dollars every week
By playing the violin in Bowery the
atre Of varieties Now, be 1t under
=tood that Bowery theatre Of varie-
ties is a very unsavory place, and the
less said about it the better.
Lischen. like good little housewife
Of fifteen, stayed at home and scrubbed
the bare floor till it shone and darned
stockings till they were good as new
better in tact-and was desperately I'M
happy For Lischen, like Caesar and q
great many worse folk. was ambitious.
You have voice like bird, dearest
child her father would say; lit is gold
Iiebes kind. but it needs refining and
| mining"
So Lischen, knowing what need there
was for minted gold, practiced the exer-
cises her father set her, and hoped. And
the poor old man saved every penny
few enough they were--and tried to
make himself fancy that some day he
would take his nightingale to Milano.
For Herr Won Haeckel believes that one
cannot learn singing outside Of Italy.
But in spite Of lischen's hopes and the
old mans boarded pennies. Milano was
very far away indred it seemed as
though it moved a few leagues farther
away each day.
John, in the basement among the shirts
and collars, had a sharp ear for the stair
case. Whenever he heard Lischen's lit
tie feet tripping down he was sure to be
Mt the window to see her pass. Lischen
fell into the habit Of glancing down at
him; soon the glance grew into a smile:
the smile grew into nod
o,a .,,,;,,,. bono III
Chinaman met her in the hall After
nucb nvster;,n,s f,,mhlio, he nrodnced
a largo nackat from, sonos hidden cave
in bis blo,,se Ua ,brust !, ;scbo,,o
hands and vanished Cinnamon have
tho ar, ~ vapisIi,o, ,bu Eoro d;d
Iischer carried tho nacLa, to b.r room,
and onan.d il I, ront,ined :, Iaro,o
panier nache dragon and this was filed
with salty Chinese honhons of xondar.
ful taste. When the old yiolinist came
home that afternoon from the Bowerv
theatre of varieties she showed him the
dragon. and IaurhingIv told him how she
had been presented with it.
HIM. eut-iar' said her father and
vranped il nm and took II down IN tho
rbira,,.n
NV daughter cannot tata ,b;s he
exnIainad e.sba ia ,n,,ch obIioed 70 von
No vo,, undorsta,d.v
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Iv "n not mine e,o'Ioue, wav
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lhai'y me-
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nan iauehine auu nan ir'eh'eleu' ene
jumped up anu pew o't tue canaie' An
oliiis 30 Si9"eu' SHOOK MS "eau sadly
dtlu went away
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cou'd ne heiP SHOWING very one III
me tenement lil i'eaIu ol A'i'c'iei' > am
0'.ioh anu 'he oiu ''oii''iS' savings
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away 'nueeu' 'oiin INN Aiio"h
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great sihSEei an oe 'e'is rich-gooo gen
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s;,,a., rroId bir,,
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srooa i, n ,ior,sr, for Al chino Fo
,hr,,s, ;,to HE hand how filIad With
ha,L ,otas hi, apd ,;,tIo and a ;olIv
;pmbls ~ gold and silver coins II was
n hard stru9gle for the moor old German
r;oI;r;s,;n q Rowerv ,heotre ~ erie
ties MARI vou-but he vas n gentleman
stiu and he cave If bact
en- y ba so;d W., have ro,d
heart h,t Won do NOT understand opr
WAYS. No. nor
Than no went SLOWLY uns,airs All