The morning call., 1893-02-12

touch of sciatica or lumbago, shakes him.
self and pursues the even tenor of his
stold way. (Who wouldn't be an Indian p
Personally. the Digger is not clearly.
No Copfuclus has ever prescribed daily
ablutlons and detailed the minutia of
morning toilet. His thick shock of hair
gets no combng from weeks commence
ment to weeks end.
There is no similarity Of social customs
better emphasized than that of fiial affec-
ton, e.. that duty or abject submission to
the Will IT parents or guardians termed. by
way OF courtesy. affection. Real affection
as defined by Caucasians, self-saerihcing
love. neither Chinese nor Digger knows.
No stronger proof of this Is needed than the
fact that neither nation ever kisses. kiss
is one visible result OF love. There may be
kissing without love; there is no love with
out kissing When a Chinese woman feels
a special heart OutpOuring for her babe she
smells il; when Chinese husband wishes
to caress his wife he stOOps and smells her
head.
A Eurasian, born of white father and
Chinese mother, looked like a Spaniard.
He was taken in socially by some of the
lower order of whites. and in writing OF his
first evening party he says:
son, them kisSl 1t was a French maid
girl and she told to kneel to smartest talk
man. bow to prettiest and kiss the man
bestesU beloved. That girl came to this
poor born half-breed and do all them things
10 him. / shver all over il was so gOodl |
like to so 10 them French parties every
night. | wish French bOrD. If them first
kiss so good. why not get plenty? China
man are fools; throw away all lie because
them never understand kiss :"
The Digger mother smells her baby's
head in token Of affection, but there is no
such manifestation OF attachment between
husband and wife.
The Chinese woman has no choice of men
for husband. She is given away or sold
by her parents, who may never see her
| again and who bother themselves little on
| that score. Ia nine cases cut of ten she
never sees the man until after she marries
him. She may become attached TO him IN
| time. Whether she does or not 1t Is Chi
! nese law TO be obedient and submissive TO
him. BY and by they have children, per-
| haps one or more girls. The poorer classes
consider girls an expensive nuisance, and
when a child Is born the m0theT-ln-laW
waits 10 learn its sex. II il be a girl it is
drowned promptly and with less feeling
than any white person would display at dis
posing Of an unwelc0me litter OF kittens.
The Indian girl is not brought up in Sc
cluSon. She mipgles freely with the Oppo-
site sex ana has her part IN the selection Of
a husband, but she never loves him so de-
YoteGly that he holds the first place In her
estimation. II her husband lie sick she is
not attentive TO his wants at best, but should
l6I ugDtuSf hi SlCk al tu6 Sd4u6 TIME SIZE
starts off at once TO care for him. cheeTfully
remarking TO her spouse:
Il hope you will get well, but if you
ole can get another husband; but II my
brother dies, where shall l get another
brother? Besides you're no blood relation
to me anyway with which parting shot
she starts on her Journey. The brave
sounds no echo of murmur, quietly
watches his wife depart and then adjusts
things on the Indian basis by sending for
his sister.
Submissive duty toward their parents or
guardians is a strong Characteristic with the
DlggerS. Ii Is amazing and amusing 10 see
an aged cr)ne give orders 10 a married
daughter of 80 years, who obeyS with the
Rlacrity of a child, or to hear the married
squaN with four or i've children as OF her
mother permission To visit neighbor."
Ceremonies attendant upon deathbeds and
funerals are similar. The Chinese endeaYoT
by charms ana superslitious obseryances TO
cali The fleeing soul back to life. They hire
priests Of their various religions 10 perform
the necessary rites.
After death they hire women who are
professional mOrners TO do the wailing, as
| il would wear the family out 70 indulge in
the wholesale grief common practice re-
! quiUes.
Food is presented TO the corpse. the es-
s1uce OF which TefTesheS 10 the other world.
HIS clothing, books and personal effects are
use aud comfort.
After the burial the shape of the room
/ where the death occurred is altered, that
/ the wandering spirit may not md Its way
/ inside. Unlike our modern Undertaking.
/ sDlrltuaiists, the Chinese dread encounters
/ with ghosts. Such windows as were before
! the death are closed and new ones made IN
{ new places; the partitions are torn down.
/ and the dimensions and shape OF the Yarl-
/ Gus cham beTS altered.
The Chinese spirit is not credited with
/ great amount Of intelligence; il is barred
1 out Of lis Old house because there is no door
/ where there used TO be; or If Derchance il
/ gains en- rance it stumbles PROSTATE over
! table or stove that was not formerly there,
| and is so frightened over the mshap, think
/ ing that after al, II has entered the wrong
/ house, that il precipltately rushes back to
( spirit land to nurse its bruised shns
Among the Fresno Diggers there are al
ways women who are trained mourners.
When one Of the tribe IS laid low, through
accident or disease, their services are re-
| quired at once to use their persuasi0ns and
| charms to hold the spirit Of the smitten
/ one. These attempts Of Chinese and H.
| diahs to STAY the ebb Of life are the natural
! impulse Of helpless humanity 10 appeal 10 a
/ higher power for aid. as tie Christians in
! woke q supTem he being when scientific skill
! fails to produce the desired end.
! The Dlggers are terrOrlZed at the name OF
/ ghost. In the fear that a departed friend
! is not satisfied with the fresh fields and pas
| lures new across the river Jordan and de-
slres to return to his old rancheTia his
/ individual wigwam Is burned and the lUca-
ton Of all the wigwams and cabins and
aTb0rs changed beyond the spirits recogni-
ton.
His personal possessions are thrown into
the fire, in the belief that they materialize
in the clouds for his benefit.
Neither Chinese nor Diggers hasten 70
! bury the dead. Neither believe that the
spirit of the dead makes a swift flight to its
! spirit home, but that it fingers around It's
! corpse, striving 10 regain admittance within
! it. Only when it finds its efforts futile does
| it regre fully and lOngingly proceed on its
/ journey to the unknown regions Of its
! eternal home. On its way up it finds the
! familiar clothes and odds and ends sent by
! its friends TO begin lie anew with.
! The Chinese professional mOurner doles
1 out the grief n proportion 10 the amount Of
! fees for the services. The immediate rela-
! tives Of the dead have their appointed tine
! Of joining IN the prescribed formula OF
/ lamentation.
So with the Fresno Digger Like R
! comedy on the theatrical stage the grief
/ proceeds in several acts. each one knowing
| bis cue. The paid squaw mourner. however.
/ always aoes her best. regardless of her pay.
The Chinese love for gambling is paral-
! leled by the Digger love of poker. All the
money that the bucks do not spend for
! whisky they put up on poker.
The Diggers and the Chinese are polyga-
msts. The Chinaman stops adding to his
! harem only when bis income warrants no
! further addition to it; the Indian stops
! adding to his harem because the supply Of
/ squaws runs short. As heads of families
! the two races differ. The Chinese provides
oil ity for n hOl and IA q 4