Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-01-02
SEEN IN CHINATOWN.
NEW YORK YOUNGSTERS, WHO ARE
FOND or STUNNING,

Find Among the Almond Eyed Denizens Of
Mott Street Much That Is Interesting. +
Cleanliness of the observation-disclosures at a 4
Chinese Restaurant
There has grown up fancy among the I
young people who are rather suffering for i
amusement to explore Chinatown, and
they find much that is amusing beside
the yellow skinned beauties Sunday
evening is the time chosen for this sort Of /
stunning, 81 Then the pigtailers con
gregate from far and near to buy supplies
OF Chinese food which last them ali the
week in their Jersey City and Hoboken
laundries At that time Mott street ard
its vicinity present pretty fair irnita
ton Of fiong Kong. despite the fart that
trains are laundering by through the eie
waited network ai Chatham square The
streets are almost impossible with the
ehattering crowds Of Cinnamon, each
with parcel under his arm. containing
salt turrlips- dried shrimp, tea and rice.
which they have come to purchase for
their seven days supply These Chinese
eat comparatively little American food
and She Chinese groceries, Of which there
are thirty or forty do a thriving trade.
drawn from all tie cities within easy dis
lance, many Of the grocers being worth
anywhere from fifty 70 hundred and
fifty Thousand dollars
You will find their stock is nearly all
imported; they keep very few American
products. and you viii wander among
these jOstiIng crowds for hours without
hearing one word Of English or suspect
ing that such tongue was known were
It not for the patent medicine advertise
ments. which carry the language every
where. and are seen here In profusion
setting forth their merits il both tongues
and reaping. it IS said, great store OF
shekels from the pigtailers. who dote on
stnf Of the sort and pay fortunes to their
own nOstFIIln sellers for the style Of raedi
ciues which were IN vogue In Europe in
the middle ages. Ia every grocery hangs
three or four pairs Of antiers in the
velvet, and the powder obi aimed by
pounding a fragment Of them in a mortar
with silver Of Chinese ginseng root
makes dose which would 20 on q silver
quarter, costs anywhere from so to 50.
and Is taken once q year BY any one VINO
can afford it with the firm conviction thst
1t has power to not only cure but ward
Of possible disease during the coming
year.
The method Of getting prescriptions is
simple but somewhat haphazard i
Chinaman who feels that something is
seriously wrong inside goes to the Joss
house, sets mp two incense sticks in the
incense burner. takes a small jar fun Of
narrow bamboo slips in his hand, bows
three times and begins 70 slowly shake
the jar from side 10 side. In the course
Of q minute or two one Of the slips works
its way out from the others and falls on
the H90F. Il las number on it, and thar
numDe corresponds to a prescription %
be found In a battered and diHgy oracle
book hanging on the wall The patient
secures that prescription from his chemist
and takes it with full faith In the Joss
diagnosis and remedy. Nearly every man
Jack Of these Cinnamon that the society
people 20 down 10 gaze a. curiously as
they claL-er through the narrow streets
among the stands where salred peanuts
and Chinese cabbage and clcum bers are
i sold, is a wasAerulan.
There are eco laUndr:es in New York
alone. 500 IN your city and 200 in Jersey
City, which Is called in the Coufucius
''IlusqUi-0 lecd- Each laundry has from
two 70 five men working ia If. and most
Of them make money. for tie Chinese
exclusion bill keeps away competition
and gives them q sort OF laundry trust Of
it One Young woman, who has lately
been On an expedition Of this sort when
she acquired this piece Of Information
saw il il tile explanation of a fact that
had greatly puzzled berwick was that
every CLinamln she saw was clean She
had gone into little rooms crowded 10 the
doors with Orieutals, where the windows
were shut and the gas burning. and vet
there was not the smallest hint Of TN
pleasant olur. She Lad explored opium
GeLs and found every smoker with the
snowiest stockings on his unslippere5
feet, and she came home much amaze
having had some previous eZperie1s
among the lower classes of other nations
Possibly the laundry profession being 81
widely LiIuStu explains their cleanliness
They ult only wash themselves. however,
but he Mclean man can 20 into their bar
Der shops any evening al-l see the barber
brush ont and braid up their long queues
shave away all the Aa.r around the face
and neck, remove all traces Of beard and
manicure their nails Lis customers com
in ont from his hands a. fresh and clean
as u yellow rose
o. all the places in Chinatown the most
interes clu- are the restaurants, of when
there are eight TIE belmclico's is Hong
Ping Los, where one can order spread
OF forty courses. which il takes two day:
70 eat and which can be had for the sun
Of so, and provides enough Tor Fssr.E
Of SIX. Here d meal for three al th(
Chinese D1luonicos and the prices. Va
had tea saIasu fr.ce brandy. two kinds
Of wine dish IF chow -eLcp-sucy, wGicl
IS a uUL-crt and palalal-e conception u-
chicken -.vers and -izz~r.s, fungi. ta--lzt
b-4s, bean sprouts. water clesruU,s ans
al manner of sayary spices stewed -
getler, a dish Of eg1-ie1Sh, one Of ducks
breasts chickens wings pigeons wings
bow. of rice and 4 nlooucake by way q
sweets. and TOR this. with all the attend
ant dishes Of salees and condiments, On.
PAYS $l..j a fG3, square meal dsa
ci6uslv cooked dainty and delicate, IL
about forty cents apiece or less, becaus.
tEeve was enough On the dishes u bav'
fed three or Il s,r mere people This lac
is bec- ming known, ana over five han
drel Americans are regular customers a
the Celes5ia. eating house. They do ne
want them there. either, because they az
too cheap. They study matters closely
and manage To got their meals for aboU
ten cents. while rle Chinese, who a-e Il
high .ivers, spend thsir money freely
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