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Show CHANGES IN CHINATOWN. Rssldsnta of New York's Oriental Quarter Dreia for Dlnnsr, One retlnbln source of big city wheer.es si-pnis lo have dried up. The t'liluka ate no longer to be considered funny, the New York correspondent of Ihe ('Incliinntl Tlinea Slur writes. Time wna when hard working liuiiiorlats could tnke a turn thrniiKh I'liliinlnwn and cotnu buck with a scrcttuliutiy funny story nliout napping pnntlca nml atrenuiitig queues utld plKenil Kligllali. Now the t'hluene rts-Identa rts-Identa have taken on it diriereiit air. They net like rcKiilur people ever since their moldy old country got out of Its xruvo clothes lung month to pet up a tight lor liberty. They talk atrniKlit lo you, and their dlnlect Isn't a bit fiiuiilir th in Is the brogue of the newly arrived lillun.iu or the broken Kugllsli of the tlermiiu ItuiiilKraut or the HiiKo of the neucoiuer frutii IIiikhIii or the patois of tha r"ieiii'li Canadian. They look you rlklit lu the eye. They ncer did cringe any -ineniorv tailt to recall nny John t'liliiaiuan who would rub his lunula together to get Iriulo but they are lu,f pendetit ami self reiei'tlng now. Maybe ihu fuels are not related, but there lias been little ilia order In the 1'hlneae quarter since that lever broko out In the l'liluee body politic. It may be, of course, due lo Ihe fuel that other people ru-sped ru-sped them nowadays. In the old ilas they broke Into the news only as the objects at which uit was aimed, or as mysterious Orientals who liked the black smoke and sold chop suey Nnad.ivt they are figures In a movement of world liupor-Innce. liupor-Innce. and they uppreclato the fncL The other night a reporter went to I'hlii.ttown to sen one of-the of-the prominent residents. The lul time llio reporter re-porter tulked to hi in the Cliliuiiuiui , a g.irheil a la John Laundry 'man. although his house .ia i. lumlnaled by gold embroidery This limn the ro. porter louud liltn wearing a dinner Jacket. Two or three guests were similarly united. "Juut s symbol of our new status," said tho I'hinaiiian, w ith a smile, lie la a guiduuto of un Am. rl. jii college, by the way. "We aiu no longer to be coo-alderod coo-alderod huibarlans." ITT - ........ |