People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Indifferent to American Customs. [ARTICLE]

Indifferent to American Customs.

Wide awake as the Chinese mer chants of New York are to the value of trade among their own people, thej feel or affect a cold indifference as t» dealings with the “foreign devil*” among whom they live. A Chines* merchant from whom a white man sought to buy a pair of Chinese shoes showed three or four pairs with no sign of interest, and finally when the customer wished to see others, answered: “No more,” and prepared to give his attention to other matters. Most of the Chinese merchants in the Bowery region disregard ordinary American methods of attracting customers, and the suggestion that purchases be sent home for the purchaser ordinarily disregarded. The advent of a white man into a Chinese shop is received with mild curiosity by the Oriental loungers, but seems a matter interest to the merchant. Let love set seal upon his own; for though it has been said that Orpheu* could not fail to find Eurydice in hades no one may know how long bo eoturht