Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — Queer Chinese Customs. [ARTICLE]

Queer Chinese Customs.

In full mourning among the Chinese the black strands of the queue are replaced by white ones and in second mourning by light blue or green. It is an unpardonable breach of. etiquette for an inferior to enter the presence of a superior with his pig-tall wound round his neck or head, and the greatest Insult one man cab offer another Is to pull his pig-tall. It seems very odd to see sailors on ship or in barracks combing each other’s tresses, or coolies at the street corners performing the same friendly office. Custom forbids a man to wear a beard and mustache until he becomes a grandfather.