Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1911 — Queue-Cutting Parties Rage. [ARTICLE]

Queue-Cutting Parties Rage.

Shanghai.—Since the edict abolishing queues has been issued a new diversion has become popular in Shanghai and other Chinese cities, known as “queue-cutting parties.” There are regular queuecutting societies organized, and the members hold public meetings in the tea houses, inviting the Chinese to step up and have their queues cut off. much as a preacher exhorts the sinner to come up and be saved at a revival.