Show CHINAMAN CAN DE BE SARCASTIC many of their sayings in common use have real wit once in a whilo you meet a common chinaman who has soma somo of tile wit of mr wn ono such has it a laundry in lexington avenue not far from twenty third street tho the other day I 1 heard him yell at a recalcitrant customer tomer you cwi no pay then you paper tiger I 1 asked what lie ho meant by a 11 paper tiger and lie ho replied oil oh in china a paper tiger is blackguard who blows much but Is harmless ile he added addad when a man is very proud of hini himself self what americans americana call stuck up wo we compare to a rat falling into a scale and weighing itself when a chinaman ov erdoes a thing wo we say bo be la Is a hunchback making a bow the abo rich son who quickly spends ills his fathers money wo call a rocket which goes oft off at once wo we say of you rich americans who send money to heath ens by missionaries and neglect their family at homo home they liang hang thel r lantern on a pole which is seen from afar but gives light below belou new york press |