The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-27
CHINAMEN HAVE FUN
Annual Supper of the Sum
day School Class of Rev.
DR.. Herr'S Church.
ENTERTAINED By TAEIR TEACHERS.
Later the Boys Brigade Amused
Them-EyerybOdy Present
Had a Coed Time.

nlght wished they were good, for all the
good, Christian, Sunday school Celestials
had royal time and were ''glad they are
good" All the God fearing laundrymen
last night donned their gaudiest attire, and
those who have pants to wear on state occa-
sions put them on so that they might look
their best at the annual supper given in their
honor at the First Presbyterian Church.
One of the features of this church it its
Chinese Sunday school, the only one in the
city. Since it has been running many
heathens have been converted and taught to
read the Bible and sing hymns. 1t is the
custom ever year to give a supper to these
The supper for 1894 took place last night.
no visitors being % invited, the he
only ones present being the lady teachers
and their olive-skinned pupils. As has been
said, the Cinnamon wore their finest and
the effect was conical. One wore dark
pants, a boiled shirt, nicely laundried, a
derby hat and red necktie; another wore
checked pants, white-winged collar, eye
glasses and carried cane; others wore the
costumes of their native country-loose
breeches, with shirt-tails hanging outside,
and slippers which necessitated endless
shutting to keep them on. Their shirts were
of all colors, including green, blue and red.
CHARLEY LEE SOAKED.
Shortly before eight o'clock all the lucky
Celestials, who were invited to the supper,
closed their laundries and hied them to
Emory street. Charley Lee was one of them
and on the way he could not resist the
temptation to taunt his neighbor, Wing
Wah, who is believer in joss and conse-
quently is barred from the good things of
Christianity and the annual supper. He
struck his head in the door and with radiant
features accosted his heathen brother with
'glood ebling Wing, you no gloing to supper
alice samee me. Me glood, no see pfetty
girlee alice samee me-"
Wing was sprinkling collars in the manner
peculiar to Chinese laundrymen, and had
just taken a big mouthful of water pre-
paratory to sprinkling new batch. This
taunt of Charley'S was more than he could
stand, and instead of squirting the clothes,
he turned on his tormentor and slapping his
cheeks, he sent stream of water over
Charley's best shirt, dazzling affair of blue
silk. Thus it was that Charley was late at
the supper, and wore his red, or second best
shirt.
The ladies who prepared the supper and
who teach the Cinnamon their Sunday school
lessons are:-Misses Daisy Wightman,
Brinkerhof, Burnister, Poe and Hough and
Mrs. j. Wightman They had an excellent
repast prepared for their pig tailed converts.
BROUGHT THEIR CHOP STICKS.
Several of the Cinnamon had brought their
chop sticks along with them, but the ladies
had provided knives and forks and seeing
that their fair preceptorS used these they
followed suit although some of them had
hard work mastering the art of using them.
One or two of them had evidently been to an
annual dinner before as they used them as il
accustomed to them, but some of the most
recent converts mistook them for new
pattern of chop sticks and used them
as SUCH After the more substantial
part of the supper was served, oranges,
nuts and cakes were brought up. Every
L.
the oranges came spoons to eat them with.
Here again John was puzzled and not more
than two out of the fifteen diners mastered
the use of the new invention. The others in
sisted on taking the oranges in their hands
and eating them IN the more simple manner
adopted by monkeys and those not in So
ciety.
The supper over, they sang.hymns. One
Lung was booked to sing a solo. butShe was
hoarse from cold contracted while chasing
some school boys in his working clothes and
had to be excused. VIII Sing took his place
and rendered "Flom Gleenlands Licee
Mountains" He no doubt has an excellent
voice. but it takes one well acquainted with
the Celestial race to appreciate it; to an out
slider the sound seemed to issue from the
singers toes rather than from his mouth.
Several other hymns were sung by all
the Cinnamon together. They wound up
with "Clown Him with MANY Clowns
all hands repaired to the session rooms,
where they spent an hour in playing all
manner of parlor games and in being guyed
and tormented by about twelve members Of
the Boys Brigade.
WITH THE BOYS BRIGADE.
These boys had been drilling while the
Cinnamon were eating, and had not quite
finished when they finished. Lieutenant
Van Dyke was putting the boys through the
manual of arms when the Celestials filed in.
The ladies, thinking to amuse their scholars,
initiated the boys in their movements, and
soon the Cinnamon, who are like parrots IN
that respect, were initiating the ladies. 1t
was an interesting sight to see the three
separate files-the boys, marching erect and
in order; the ladies, doing fairly well, but
not marching with the regularity of the
boys, and the Cinnamon bringing up the
rear, laughing and pushing each other and
keeping no sort of order.
After the boys were through with their
drill they loaned the Cinnamon their guns,
rnd Van Dyke tried to give them a lesson in
the manual of arms. He could not get them
to hold their guns in anything like the cor
rect position, and it is a wonder that moro
than one almond eye was not put out, as the
guns pointed in all directions and each man
seemed to be trying his level best to jab his
neighbor
cHIvALRoUs TO DEGREE.
AT the order present arms" each China
man turned and handed the weapon he was
drilling with to the lady nearest him. Van
Dyke explained that ''present" in that case
did not mean to give away, but to hold the
guns in front of them, and the drill went on.
At "order arms" every pigtail threw his gun
on the floor, and when ordered to carry they
handled them as if they were newly
starched shirts.
After the drill the boys proposed a tug-of-
war. The Cinnamon were agreeable to it, SO
sides were formed. Lieutenant Van Dyke
and the CeleStials took one side and the
soldier boys pulled against them. The boys
won the first tug and let the other side WIN
the second. The third time the boys put up a
job on their ex-heathen brethren and their
dignified lieutenant, and when they were
pulling their hardest they all let go of the
rope and landed them all in heap. The
ladies lectured them for their practical jok-
ing, but could scarce refrain from laughing
at the comical sight the conglomeration OF
pig tails presen ted, piled in the centre of the
floor.
HLEAP FLUN.
The boys and the Cinnamon played num-
ber of other games, the boys played prac-
tical jokes ON the Cinnamon, and the China
men took them all as if 1t were ''allee saneo
Heap fun The boys declare that they never
had so much fun, and, as for the Cinnamon.
they will not get through talking about it
until the time for the next annual dinner
arrives.
JERSEY P0STMASTERS