. To California and back;. graphs in a fate-book that is next resorted to, and youare ultimately informed that you will live for fortyyears to come; that you will marry within two years,and, if your sex and air seem to countenance such aventure, that you will shortly make enormous win-nings at poker. Whatever of genuine solemnity maycloak the Heathen Chinee in his own relations to hisbewhiskered deities, he undoubtedly tips the wink tothem when the temple is invaded by itinerant sight-seers. The smooth, spectacled interpreter of desti-nies pays $5,000 a year for the privilege of purveyingsuch
. To California and back;. graphs in a fate-book that is next resorted to, and youare ultimately informed that you will live for fortyyears to come; that you will marry within two years,and, if your sex and air seem to countenance such aventure, that you will shortly make enormous win-nings at poker. Whatever of genuine solemnity maycloak the Heathen Chinee in his own relations to hisbewhiskered deities, he undoubtedly tips the wink tothem when the temple is invaded by itinerant sight-seers. The smooth, spectacled interpreter of desti-nies pays $5,000 a year for the privilege of purveyingsuch mummeries, and hardly can the Heathen Chi-nee himself repress a twinkle of humor at the lermi-nation of a scene in which he so easily comes offbest, having fairly outdone his Caucasian critic incynicism, and for a price. In the theater he will be found, perhaps contraryto expectation, to take a serious view of art. Youare conducted by a tortuous underground passage ofsuccessive step-ladders and narrow ways, past innu-merab
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