The Washington times., 1910-09-18
QUEUES TO REMAIN
ON CAPITAL CHINESE
Emperor's Subjects in Wash
ington Care Little for
Royal Edict.

Chinatown left its little cups OF sam
Shu and tea today long enough to blink
sleepily and disclsira all intention Of
~eveTing the blessed queues.
In mute refutation OF the idea that
WashingtOn's Chinatown would follow
the lead OF New York's Mott and Doyer
streets denizens. now qUeueIesz. Lee
Tuen's carefully braided head bobbed
over the little fires in the joss house
at s1s Pennsylvania avenue while the
faithful scattered the paper prayers
The shearing Of queues in Chinatown.
recommended by royal edict, is = direct
undermining Of q custom which has
been IN vogue since the conquest Of
China by the warlike Manchus. At that
time the sons Of southern China, placed
under the yoke. were compelled 70
wear their hair in a queue, and when
one Of the little yellow men stole into
his home and clipped the long back hair
IL was a sign Of open revolt
But three hundred years have made
the queue the patent of respectahility,
and Washington's Cinnamon are Ioath
I 10 part with ii, although there are many
in the 500 residents OF WashingtonTs
Chinatown who Of their own vcition
have sheared their pates-
Gathered At jess House.
Down IN the rooms Of the Yuen Chung
/ Company. underneath the joss house,
| Charlie 500 and his eo-partners were
/ gathered this morning when Times
I reporter called
Charlie rose from his mating COW
! cred bunk long enough 70 say that he
I thoroughly understood about the edict,
/ but that Washington Cinnamon 50 far
as he knew might do as the. Pleased
! asout wearing the queue His was sac
rifeed long ago
! In the rooms Of the Kim Liun Yuen
! Company across the street the reply
was the same, and the older members
Of the firm caressed his nearly bald
I pate. TO confirm what Charlie 500 had
said
/ But the residents Of Chinatown are not
quite so uninterested IL the royal edict
as might appear Many are the tales
they tell over the pipes when the yen
yen grips them, for Washington's China
1 town, little known. Is like a great multi
coIored dragon asleep with only patches
Of his hide showing TO the passerby in
/ the gay paper banners OF restaurants
/ and empO1ums-
Funds for Navy.
/ so it was whispered this mog1InE that
! when the 100000 OF China's popula-
1 ton are shorn, their queues, worth 81
apiece in tire hair market viii be sold
/ Then China, now in the thrOes of hEan-
ciaI difficulty may build her navy 70
defend herself
And another said that the Royal
/ Prince who visited the Western World
saw in the short haired army and navy
! fighters, prototypes OF what the Chinese
[ soldier and sailor should be, and JhsE
the edict was Of his hand
/ But Charlie 500. VINO knows What Is
I gong on behind the latticed Win6sws.
4 shook his head I know nothing o. ell
( this They may cut their queues or
] leave them as they please What should
| know OF the reasons for tbs Imperial
/ edict2''
/ And 50 Chinatown, with the dueusleSS
/ who We're already QueueleSs, and the
/ shorn who have been 50 for years, turn
( ed again TO its sam Shu and tea; 70 its
F.! fan tan and the call Of the yen yen. for
/ the royal ediCt has lot touched Wash
I inEron-