Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-13 | Page 4 | A Queue-Rious Question

' sign of conquest. Until recent years it was considered very unlucky 1 for a Chinaman to lose his queue in any way. It was the nexl thing to losing his head, and no Chinaman here who had parted! with his pigtail would be allowed to go back to China. The ban has been removed for some tirao, however, and now the absence of a queue is regarded as a badge of progressivism and patriotism. But to be lucky the queue should really be cut off at the festival of the full moon; otherwise its loss may cause trouble. A QUEUE-RIOUS QUESTION. Many Chinamen in this country are cutting off their pigtails m view of an expected imperial decree in China abolishing the; queue. It is seen that the queue is a drawback in many ways, and now that China is developing a big modern army especially she dosen't want her soldiers to be hampered by these appendages, for thej make altogether too good a handle for the enemy to take hold of. j The wearing of the queue in China is not so very anoient a cits- ' torn. It was forced on the Chinese by their Tartar masters a8 a