Show chicago chinese to amputate queues queue S r notice 40 CHICAGO C prank frank moy the mayor of Chi cagos chinatown has passed along a recently issued imperial decree that all celestials celesti als are to part with their queues alter af ter wearing a braid for about abou years john chinaman has come to the conclusion that it Is a nuisance and a it would hardly do to say a relic of a barbarous age china has awakened to the fact that its advancement has been retarded by the way it wears its hair and the whole empire Is going to have a haircut the matter has been agitated for some time by leading chinese among them wu tingfang ting fang former minister to the united states A cablegram received ved from wu who Is in the gov ament service in china announces anh announces ounces the date of dispo disposing s of superfluous appendages which date in the chinese chineo e calendar corresponds with the of february in the gregorian calender the chinese new year falling on january 30 it Is a good sensible idea said moy aloy 1 i I had my queue cut off several years ago and I 1 dont know that I 1 ever felt the loss of it 1 I it t is no good anyway aud it makes lots of work f for or the wearer it has got to be braided every day and washed once or twice a wee week kand and no small job it is a common belief among americans that the reason a chinaman cut off his queue is that he thinks he cannot enter heaven without it only a story the world over will welcome the decree to cut off their queues in chicago there la Is a chinese population of about 2000 of which one fourth have no queues the other throe fourths with few exceptions will climb in the barber chair on february 14 and say give me a haircut |