Show OFF QUEUES Custom Has Been Started in 4 PIGTAIL A LAKE t FOLLOWED John Chinaman is to cut off his queue One Salt Lake Chinaman Le thO proprietor of a restaurant on West See ond South streets as as is Is the only who taken the shears to his long braid Lee has now nowa a nice crop of short glossy black hair and at glance a Jap The Chinese empire society of San has sent word around the world that the custom has beep start eti met with favor and will be to low d by all god The Chinese of San Jose have cut of their pigtails Slid others out the country are following the practice tice A talk with severs street laundrymen reveals the adt that they their a Cannot bring themselves to cut off the appendage Each one Is waiting for the to take the initiative bearing in mind probably ably a Chinese equivalent to Holmes famouS Be not the first by whom the nw are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside The have concluded tile queue be done away WIth as it gets in the way is of i use and at attracts tracts the attention of the evil minded Young America them predict the of Plum alley hOIn of their long braids Beason For the Queue The custom of a among the Chinese has no religious sig whatever contrary to popular belief In It Is old custom that has been handed down from generation to generation he Chinese It Is well known are ancs toe worshipers and do certain because their forefathers did The only reason that they have not cut off their queues long ago Is out of a ron of re speet for the dead Ask a why he practiceS a certain custom and he will reply that his and grand grandfather father did it before him That Is rea reason son enough in Chinese mind for h shows a deal more respect or par eats than American girls and boys do rho who have come over to imbibed the idea of rid ridiculing the advice of fatherS or and doing as they The cuts ting off of the queue Is one of the first signs of this |