A senator at a Washington reception was defending the Chinese. “ The Chinese civilisation,” he said, “ is the oldest in the world. To know the Chinese is to respect them. Are we very much their superiors? A Chinese mandarin of great and lofty rank attended a hall here in Washington the other night. Well, ho looked on for some time at the cortortions and kicks of the perspiring young men and women of Washington’s high society as they danced the Charleston, and then he turned to the hostess and said in a tone of mild astonishment, ‘ Can’t you get your eervants to do tiiis for you ?, - -
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Evening Star, Issue 21993, 1 April 1935, Page 7
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