Show ETIQUETTE OF THE PIGTAIL IFrom the Detroit Free Press In China the mon take as much pride 1 their hair as women and Vplgtailis I a thing of no little moment It enters into manners of etiquette which oven the lowest coolie observes and tauea as much skill to manage as a ladys train It is not true that a man would rather die that lose his cue though notwithstanding a popular superstition to that effect for all the Buddhist Budd-hist priests share their polls and baldness over the whole scalp is exceedingly common in both men and women An occasioual old man is seen without a cue but usually i there is any hair nt all it is gathered into braid though the whole may not be any larger than a shoeString aud the owner feels happy In making the cue the whole head is shaved except a circular patch upon the crown The hair from this is braided and strands o silk aro added which end Ins tussel reaching to the heels In descending descend-ing stairs it is picked up as a lady picks up her flirts and ia sitting down tbo at tache places it carefully at his side In lull mourning the black strands are replaced re-placed by white ones and in second mourning Bnt ing by light blue or green It is jin unj pardonable breach of etiquette for an inferior in-ferior ttt enter tho presence of a superior I with his cue wound round his neck or head a it is frequently disposed of during dur-ing workand the greatest insult one man I can offer another Is to pull his cue It 1 seems very t > dd toneo sailors and s ldlers on ships or in barracks combing each others long tresses or coolies at the street corners performing the same friendly pfflce and barbers stall or shop is usually surrounded sur-rounded by a dozen or so men of all classes cluing gossiping in the sun while their long hair floats in tho breeze drying after a shampoo Barbers drive a lively trade I among the celestials for not only tho head but the whole face is shaved for custom forbids a man to wear a beard and mustache mus-tache until ho becomes a grandfather A grey beard is an object of great veneration veneraton and the old fellows take a great deal of pride in tho scanty growth which reluctantly reluct-antly sprouts from lip and chin and old dandies commonly wear a little Ivory comb suspended from the jacket by a silver chain with which they coax and pet this hlfsute growth with as much concern as any fresh mao in a medics college 1 < |