Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-01-23
NEWS, VIEWS AND
NEW YORK GOSSIP
|hinese New Year--SOme Dope
on Eating and Crime in
the Great Metropolis
tGlenn Guernsey

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Hlappy
SOS, You dunno? Aw, ting tang,
M Dang, biff bang, and other words
messing obhorrence of such ex-
,eme ignorance. This has been Ce-
stial New Year week in the metrop-
/ and all good Cinnamon are cele-
iting.
The present New Year of the Chi
ase is of more than ordinary import
e, since it MARKS the official be-
inning of the first year of Hsuan
ung's reign. And 1t was celebrated
DcOrdingly. There we're innumera-
banquets, at which the bills of
re included such delicacies as rats
Ter la Wung Tung, picked birds
ssts and puppy la saute ping pong.
Unbelievable as it is, none of the
enus included chop suey, and one
the leading caterers of Mott street
Imly declares that no Chinaman
|er partakes of the dish, which is an
mercan innovation to tickle the
Hates of white devils who go slum-
ing
Among the Cinnamon, the cele-
atiOn of New Year is more than one
ght Of dissipation and day given
nursing hangovers. At least a
eek or ten days is necessary to prop
" welcome the advent Of the New
ear. There's reason. The prop
Presentation of a new drama.
hch always takes place during the
HrlOd of festivities, requires many
gifts in itself. Yon Lungs new
oOlem play is in one hundred and
yenteen acts and each act is a COM
ete drammer in itself.
Then there are the obseQuies of the
Onfucius club, which includes in its
Renbership all of the intellectual
gh brows of Mott and Pell streets.
Ais years program numbers no less
ban hundred addresses, and each
iaIor is required to talk not less
ban three hours or more than four.
Another pleasant custom of the
Ainese New Year is that of paying
cots. No deeper disgrace can at
pen to a son of the dragon empire
pan to be unable or unwilling to dis
barge all of his Indebtedness on the
st day of the year. If there is such
unfortunate being in Chinatown
OOay, be sure that he is not celebrat-
% with his fellows. A murderer
Aght be forgiven. and even the bias
lemous wretch who has slandered
ancestors taken back into the fold
fellowship. But the man who re-
Uses to pay his just debts on New
ear day-the Chinese He'll has no
epIhs deep enough for such as he.
Some Dope ON Eating.
10 you know how to eat? Its dol
Us to doughnuts that you don't. and
vas to enlighten such density of
aOfance as yours that Mr.. Horace
Nseher has come across the pond
make a lecture tour of Uncle Sans
health and content, according to
N'eher, follow in the wake OF prop
eating. His prescription is easy
'aough it may be difficult in prac-
Z the first place, never eat unless
sry. This doesn't mean that q
lfe for lobster salad or quail on
y Is to be defined as hunger. You
really hungry only when you can
-aeh a crust of dry bread. and en-
having reached that point you are
spared-f you have the crust-for
next lesson in Fletcherism. That
saeW And then chew some more,
jet again. Keep right on chew
until the mOuthFul refuses to be
esed and slips down the gullet like
sias of beer down the parched
,oA' Of a thirsty ditch digger.
aat that isn't all. You have q
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