A CHINESE FAILURE.
When a native of China doing business goes to the wall, a Mandarin investigates his affairs, and the result is usually about as follows: —"I find that your household expenses have been eight cents per day." " Alas! oh, mighty Mandarin, I have an extravagant family." " ¥ our rent has been 60 cents per month. Jtiow dare you incure such expense on your small capital ?" " I was in hopes times would improve." " Andl find among youritems of expense such things as opera tickets, oysters for Sunday, and smoking-tobaeco ior your grandmother. No wonder you have to shut up shop and cause your creditors to mourn.". "Oh, mighty Mandarin, show mercy to an honest, but unfortunate man." "Call yourself honest when you withdraw 70 cents out of yoar capital to buy your wife a party dress ? Come to the temple of justice." At the temple the creditors divide up the assets, and each one is then privileged to use a whip on the debtor's bare back until he thinks he has got a hundred cents on the dollar.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4916, 11 October 1884, Page 4
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178A CHINESE FAILURE. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4916, 11 October 1884, Page 4
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