Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 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 queue-cutting societies organized, and the members hold public meetings In tbe 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.