New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-24

Christian Chinese Burial Association. Among
their bylaws is this significant sentence: No
heather rite ceremony shall be allowed at
any time at the burial the grave of de-
ceased"
Just before this cemetery laid out the
necessity of such a place was emphasized by
a pathetic event in which a heather Chinese
father and a time Christian mother fig
ured. Their child had died, and the father who
was a Chinese merchant, in his love for his
little one. ordered the tomtOms and other pagan
instruments used in the Chinese funeral service.
The mother had once been a Christian, but an
evil life, which had at last dragged her to the
attic of Mott-st. tenement house. had fairly
dispelled her thoughts of God. Instead she wor
shipped the rattan couch and the suffering
opium ball. But the sight of idOlatrous imple-
ments and the sound of the tomtoms for her
baby reused her from her lethargy. She pleaded
with the pagan merchant, but in vain. At last
a gentle hammered missionary worker from the
Morning Star Mission in Doyers-st. went and
talked with the Chnaman. But all efforts were
futile. In her desperation the wife made use
of strategy. and watching her opportunity she
took the coffin night and drove off in
closed carriage. hottest is still wondering
where the little child was buried
There are about ten thousand Cinnamon IN
this city and of these three thousand wash the
clothes of their American neighbors- There are
about one thousand laundries, with an average
of three men to q shop. To an outsider VINO
peers into the window by day or night 1t WOULD
seem that the laundrymen never sleep FROM
Monday night till Saturday night their rest Is
short. but Sunday and Monday they get enough
sleeD to last them the rest Of the week The
laundry is however the missionarys easiest
field Here he finds most of his converts Ihose
who work hardest are most likely to keep away
from evil influences
OF the rest Of the Chinese population, 1oaf
thousand are merchants in the Chinese dlstrlct'
and their trade extends to the many thousahd
laundries in suburban and country districts.
Another thousand are in the tobacco, cigar and
cigarette business. while the other TWO lhou-
sand are transients fockng hither from China
and representing the heads OF the Dig coliiLe-
cial houses of that country.
But in all Chinatown there are only fifty Chi
nesa women. One rarely sees them on the
streets The women are extremely shy; ana
vet in spite of their seclusion and their prac-
teal slavery at the hands of their husbands or
masters, they. too have caught the American
spirit of progress. When they are compelled OF
necessity to &C out they dress after the fashion
of Western women. They change their loose
kimonas and baggy pantaloons for the tightly
fitting waists and trailing skirts of the A1nerl-
cans Almost all the women live at NOS Il. o.
and Is MOtt-st.
But we dislike the American dress" said
Mrs Wung Tai Kee. of No. 1 Doyers-st., who IS
an intelligent woman and an able partner in the
business of her husband, the sign painter Of
Chinatown 1--WE Chinese women she con-
tinued "abominate the corset In our native
country we have the evil custom of pinching the
feet. But dwarfirg the feet cannot harm a
woman as the squeezing of the waist. When
you dwarf the waist you dwarf the heart. One
may have pygmy pair of feet and still have
healthfuI body But the Chinese are progress