The Chinese.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 36, 10 July 1885, Page 4

The Chinese.

:■-,#■■• ■, ■■■ ■:-,■ :,; »". ,•.■...'•; The Bunedin . Evening Herald speaks . thusly r-r-The Chinese are the motet conservative nation ... pn earth., ; While the mhabitants o£ ptjier countries .-march., .ahead with the times and become the ■■slaves of the vagaries of fashion,, Chinaman, stick's: toi his primitive costume, and jogs along attired 'in his ■ blue blouse and airy unmentionables. Vainly does the great pulsating heart of what we pall progress beat against the walls of the Celestial Empire! The " red-haired darbarians " without, may. indulge m al kinds of crazy cranks," but the stptcal imperturbability of John is proof 'against their innovation. Our immoral Laureate may shout until he's hoarse— ! ,;, v Let the great world _spin for ever down ' the ringing grooves of change ! , t butr- John hears him not. Staggering • under His big bamboo, the patient, toil-, 4 mg, good-tempered poor fellow ejaculates, \ "No Sabby 1" and iosrs .along in.hisiown' slip shod groove. Noir does John China-, man alter much when he comes jto the colonies. The Maori and the r , jlian aborigine are very apt at aping 'our «customs, but the plegmsitie Celestial looks; down upon our laws and i social usages with a kind of placid contempt, and only condescends to sugnly^us with 'vegetables for a moderate consider ationir. .He keeps .himself, to himself asmu^ch as •possible. . Knowing his own superiority, he acts no doubt on the time-hbr|ourcd' axiom that "Familiarity breeds, oontempt." . But alas, and alack! jJohn Chinaman,' Uk'e 'every other human creature, is liable Jbo be corruplted/Jby. bad company, and defiled by the pith £f our boasted- civilisation. How true is it that " evil communications corrupt good manners," and the proverb has found a focible illustration m the fact that a couple of Mongolians have sought the counsel and advise of the most-obliging -friend of those m troublp 4 the Official Assignee. Messrs Chick You and Ah Kom-,> finding that cabbages are below par, and carrots at a discount, have thrown themselves, figuratively of course, on thelsympathetio bosom of Mr, James Aslicroft, and seek to be initiated by that gentleman into the mysteries of the Bank,ruptcy. Act.. Shade of; the Hwang I Things are coming to a pretty pass. ■..-.'■