Show QUEUE IS SIGN OF BONDAGE remarkable that chinese have come to look upon it with a degree of pride if the germans had won the war would would they have made us wear alg tails in oriler that they might have something to yank us around by bf and would they have applied their ettl em clency to a new system ot of punishment perhaps with a different number of yanks for each offense against our conquering masters wa the zeal with which ni patriotic cultivate the queues that they consider a sort of national distinction and the fact that those in other countries who discard them are forever considered outcasts Is indeed paradoxical for the pigtail Is a n sign of bondage the earmark of a conquered race centuries ago ancient china had a civilization all its own cut but on every side she was surrounded by warrior hordes that coveted the riches and lux luxuries urles of the more advanced people e n and n d harassed them thein continually finally overcome by a barbarian host the chinese were reduced to a state of servility one of the exactions of the conquerors was that the men grow long queues by which as they flew 11 ew b by y on their horses they actually took hold bold of the helpless creatures to swing thern before them to the saddle or to cut oft off their heads |