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Show Why Chinamen Change Signs. A Washington street Chinaman changed his sign the other day, name and all One of his customers, after the sign had been changed, stopped in to IT . tT Cb-HoTnas hasl tak3 r-3- session ot tiio place, fie lounti tne same larindryman as had been there for a good many months. "What did you chango the name on your sign for?' ' was asked of him. "Oh, that nothin. Only sign nama That's all." "Why don't you put your own name on the sign?" "Oh, see if I sellee place, can't sellee sign. See? Any name good sign. That's all" He then explained that it was a common com-mon practice among Chinamen to change their signs frequently, and that by so doing they believed that it encouraged trade and thus reimbursed them for the expenditure in red paint and unpronounceable unpro-nounceable characters. Buffalo Express. |