Show CHINA mirl DIES AT ADVANCED AGE oh my ayt I 1 t almit that as old resident of evanston wyoming where china mary lived for many years that I 1 knew her taboo for mary followed that most ancient of all professions at one time but everyone knew china miry and didn dian t squirm because of her calling quaint in appearance al eways ways dressed in chinese costume of long flowing outer robe pantaloons below white silk BOX and ever the thick felt soled chinese shoes she was a character in the town at the time of her death it was supposed she was about or over a hundred years old the tribune of the gives a running account of her life married three times once in silks and adorned with lavish chinese jades and other evidences of wealth she at last became a pub lie lic charge and wizened wrinkled became more and more feeble until released by death in ways that are dark and in tricks that are vain the heathen chinee is peculiar she was onto the wiles of life versed in its ways and was just as unfathomable and peculiar as the rest of her countrymen albeit re specter by the whites and spoken to by all the tribune says she was a chin ese cook at bear town at the time of the famous bear town riot it if this Is true it adds another interest the tribune correspondent also mentions little charlie chang al ays known as mormon charlie talkative word coined tor for the need and entertaining still above sod how ilow the old me memories mories race back to chinese cemetery seen es bowls of rice and tea at the graves the bones disinterred and carefully put in a tin can to be ship ped back to china the fan tan games the fights over the bomb on china big day the joss house and praying chinese ladies bowing to the rhythm of ebony clackers the gifts at christmas time from ah ali sin ah koon and even little mor mon charlie the vegetable vender the frist piece I 1 ever had printed in salt lake city was in III the western monthly just about thirty y years ago the magazine died wonder if my article killed it with our closeness to the chinks because dad hired em for the union pacific mines mine comes come up the time U P 3 blew up killing chinese miners the receipt by dad of a skull and cross bones in red with a scrawl ed warning on oil it the chinese riot at rock springs in which living cht chi namen were thrown into their burn ing all memories of the ancient past welled up on mention of china mary |