Angel Island : the Ellis Island of the west . You sell yours? No, he did not wish to sell his. But with a kindnessthat I could not have asked from him, the young Chinamanleft his street-stand with his companion, and went into oneof the stores. He said something in Chinese to the pro-prietor, who did not bestir himself to sell to me, but allowedthe young man to go to a fat bundle of the very flags Ihad wanted. So paying twenty-five cents, I came out thepossessor of a five-striped flag. At last, a portly, dignified,intelligent Chinese merchant to whom I appealed, told methe meaning of my flag. T
Angel Island : the Ellis Island of the west . You sell yours? No, he did not wish to sell his. But with a kindnessthat I could not have asked from him, the young Chinamanleft his street-stand with his companion, and went into oneof the stores. He said something in Chinese to the pro-prietor, who did not bestir himself to sell to me, but allowedthe young man to go to a fat bundle of the very flags Ihad wanted. So paying twenty-five cents, I came out thepossessor of a five-striped flag. At last, a portly, dignified,intelligent Chinese merchant to whom I appealed, told methe meaning of my flag. The five stripes of the flag meantthe five families of China. He began naming them, begin-ning at the red stripe and taking the colors in order. Manchu, said he, meaning Manchuria, Mongolia,China, Thibet and Chinese Turkestan. - The Joss House.—The strains of Columbia, the gemof the ocean sounded near by. It was played by a brassband of young Chinese men dressed in American clothesand was attracting many Chinese listeners. On the building. The New Flag of China A CHINESE NEW YEARS DAY TN AMERICA 47 before which they played was a sign inviting visitors to thejoss-house upstairs. I wished very much to visit the joss-house, but I hardly liked to go up alone. An Americanwoman with two little children was near me on the agreed to go with me into the joss-house. The band had gone up the first stairway, and hadentered a Chinese societys rooms on the second floor. Aswe mounted the stairway, the woman and I spoke of thegreat changes among the Chinese, and I said that I hopedChina would yet be a Christian nation. Dont you believe it! burst out the woman with asudden sharp decision. They never will! Theyve got agood religion already! There isnt much difference betweenthem and us. Theyve got one good religion and they dontlive up to it, and weve got another good religion and wedont live up to it!>J Could I stop there on the narrow stairway, in the blareof San Franciscos Chin
Size: 1381px × 1808px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidangelislandellis00bamf
