Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — The Imitative Chinaman. [ARTICLE]

The Imitative Chinaman.

Washington special. 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 tellinjg about some of his strange experiences with the soils of the Celestial empire, when he said: “When we got our first Cninamgn to cook, he didn’t know a blessed thing about the kitchen, and it became necessary for Mrs. Stewart to go down and 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 how to make biscuits. After she rolled the dough she took a cutter and began to ctit out the biscuits. When the, whole roll was cut up there was a little triangular piece left, and of this she made a half moon, as 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 were served there was a half moon among the lot. At the end of a year I made inquiry about the matter of Mrs. Stewart, and she wentllito the kitchen and watched the Chinaman each time he cut his bisrofldft would Bpoil four or five biscuits to do so. He thought it was as necessary as the salt or the shortening.” —/ A Connecticut newspaper, speaking of American ladies who have married British noblemen, infers to “the _ Duchess oi Marlborough, nee Widow Hammersley.” \ -t