A CHINESE MOLL.

NZ Truth, Issue 168, 5 September 1908, Page 6

A CHINESE MOLL.

Cantankerous' Mand Courtenay.

■Maud Coiirtehay is an optimistic-look-, tog brunette of unpleasant reputation, whose moral ruin is attributable to the baleful influence of the leprous Chow. This paper may have fathomed the-at-traction held out by- the grinning alien to the abandoned women of our sunny clime, but ii isn't going to be mentioned m print, and whether <tbe magnetos the opium pipe or the pleasing variety introduced into' his sinfulriess by the inscrutable Mongol doesn'* matter much.; suffice it to say, some sexless creatures find a peculiar fascination m the env braces of the Yellow vermin. A contributing cause m Christchurch of the Chinkee moll trouble is the insufferable .^aspect of the pious population, "Which sools the police on to the professional Flossie and drives her into-.gaol, or worse. This brutal intolerance creates, on the . one hand, an -army of apparently amateur Tottaes, and, on the other hand, hurls ,the real street battler into the arms. : . of •the sniggering Chow. TiVMte people will not receive her,v as her presence indicates, a brothel, and to keep , a brothel is nextdoor to murder for criminal grieviousness m the holy city: Even the cursed Chaw, fearful for his own skin,, views the indiscriminate invasion of his Premises by the vicious female with feelings at alarm, as instanced m the case ol Maud Coutteriay, already mentioned. On a recent date feeler Dunlop was throwing out his manly chest m Manchesterstreet when' a member of the Yellow Peril told huh, with agitation, that a .woman was even at. that moment illegally .sitting down m Chow premises . m j Madras-street j and wouldn't shift. Thereupon the copper entered the , uninviting abode, and discovered Maud ' Sitting on a bed m a back room, where ; SHE HAD SHED MOST OF -HER CLOTHES, and was exhibiting her: shapely ."figure m an indelicate manner to whomsoever might gaze- She was . feoobed, under protest, but pleaded "Not guilty" to the good ojd charge -of -'idle and disorderly" next day. ■ • Tung Lv, or One Lung, or something, » copper-colored undesirable, was called to support the above facts, but didn't seem to understand the nature of an oath. The Bible was as strange to him as a bar of" soap, and he expressed, profound ignorance of the significance of blowing out a match. "Can you understand English ?" asked Sergeant Johnston'. \ '-■■-. "Not much,'! replied the Rev. Don's friend, exhibiting a vast gap mV his face intended as a smile.. Magistrate Day- surmised that the guileful Chinee knew enough English for the purpose, but as it was found impossible to swear him, and he wasn't a material witness anyway, Too? .Long, . or whatever his name is, stood down. Tec. Gibson then spoke severely about Maud, who had been living with a prostitute named Rellly. Also, she, had • been consorting with Chows, and the purity of the white race was being sullied to an usual degree. Also, Maud was marked as an abandoned creature, and required reformatory treatment. '" Maud didn'tf exercise her privilege to question any of the witnesfei. Shemerely smiled. When asked to, say something she was likewise dumb-, •■■,■ but appeared amused, and.it is surmised that association' -with the Yellow horror has transmitted to ;her countenance the inane grin of the Chow, which is infectious, and runs m the family, like broken legs or mumps. ■' . The police matron, whose voice hat been reduced to a husky whisper by the prevailing relaxed throat, testified that Maiid, when searched at' the station, WAS STONY MOTHERLESS and capable of asking Yen a Chow for a feedi ' - ■■■•-■••;. •■'"■■• Day, S.M., said he would have to conyict, uid made the penalty three months hut gave Maud a chance by suspending the grdK &q long a« she four

months iii the Samaritan Home, thro"Wn ,open to' her with alacrity by Missioner ;Smaill. y '".■■'