Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1889 — The Imitative Chinaman. [ARTICLE]

The Imitative Chinaman.

Senator Stewart, of Nevada, does not believe in the theory that a Chinaman can progress, although he may be Americanized in most particulars. The other day he was telling about some of his strange experiences with the sons of the Celestial empire, when he said: “When we got -our first Chinaman to cook, he didn’t know a blessed thing about the kitchen, and it became necessary for Mrs. Stewart to go down aud show him how to do everything. When you demonstrate in an ocular way how things should be done, John never forgets. He is very impressionable. Mrs. Stewart showed him howto make biscuits. After she rolled the dough, she took a cutter and began to cut the biscuits. When the whole roll was done there was a little triangular piece left, and of this she made a half moon, which is customary. I didn’t know- anything about it at the time, but at the end of three or four months I discovered that every day when our biscuits w-ere served here was a half moon among the lot. At the end of a year I made inquiry about the matter of Mrs. Stew art, and she went into the kitchen aud watched the Chinaman each time he cut his biscuits, and she discovered that he always made a halts moon, and would spoil four or five biscuits to do so. He thought it w-as as necessary as the , salt or the shortening-” Washington Cor. Indianapolis Journal. “It takes three generations to make s gentleman,” and a bottle of whiskv will unmake him.