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Show CHINAMAN CAN B SARCASTIC Many of Their Sayings In Common Use Have Real Wit. Onco In a while you meet n common com-mon Chinaman who 1ms somo of the wit of Mr. Wu. One such has a laundry laun-dry in Lexington avenue, not far from Twenty-third street. The other day I heard him jell at a recalcitrant cus-tomer: cus-tomer: "You no pay? Then ou paper tiger!" 1 abked what he meant by a 'paper tiger," and he replied: "Oh, In China a paper tiger Is blackguard who blow 8 much but Is harmless." He added: add-ed: "Whe.t a ninn Is very, proud of himself, what Aim-Means call 'bttick up,' we compare to a rat falling Into 1 scale and weighing ltbclf. When a Chinaman overdoes a thing we say lie is a hunchback making a bow. The rich son who quickly spends his father's fa-ther's money we call a rocket whlob goes off Rt 01.ee. Wo sny of yos rich Amencnns who send money to heath ens by missionaries and neglect their family r.r. norao- 'Tlic hang their lantern on a poln dhlch Is seen from afar, but gives no light below.'" No ork Press. |