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CHINESE CUSTOMS,
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Chins is the problem of the twentieth century,
Zöver, never
Into the river than to lượn fute the cum of needy men and women and give them judicious Lelp. Bosides, the fish are done with, while this in not ways the 4230 with huma recipients of charity. A medical missionary bind boggar. It was a oase of estara t, and an wus nekod by a patise gentleman-to-care-a operation restored sight. Then the missionary was waited upon by the same gentleman, anıl fold that, ns Le bad destroyed the only means by which the bind man sould get a living- that is, by begging-it was the duty of the missionary to make it up to him by taking him into his employment as a gatekeeper!
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Whatever that great country becomes and will ever the Earopena Powers do with it influence more than anything else the destiny of the world. Five hundred millions of micel intelligent, patient people, who can live upon nothing, and who have no objection to die; what can they not do? The worst of it is that no one understands China or what she is going to do next. It is, like a woman, a conundrum; we shall never gites her, but we shall
On their wedding-day brides who ara nearly give her w p To one coming for the Arg time always very young, avechafted" numercifully. to China everything seems to be upside-down's When they come to their new home but it is not sally on, The Chiten ond give-abg-eted to the same sort of etilicious period as good reasons for their manners and castons aloud to their face as a newly bought horse. As can Britishers for theirs; and things that Lu some places it is allowable for any one to aenm to ne mast. absurd in China when first tura book the curtains of her sedan-chair and We see them arg afterwards discovered to stare at a bride, or even to throw handfuls of be most reasonable. John Chinaman, with bayed or chaff upon her carefully oiled hair. bis placid. patient emile, at oras that see The theory of responsibility us understood appareatly and gornare, is by no means ko
in China seems to as Westerns to be unjust, great a fool is há inoks.
bat frem another point of view to have some. As, thou, Chien is so out of the common, and thing to recommend it. In the year 1873 ** the future, perhaps it may intorast roadors if A country about which we shall hear much fu Shinsman was acensed of having brokea. open the grave of a relative of the Imperial family I note down a few of the first impressions which in order to rob the calls of certain gold, silver, I had on coming out here to Hongkong as Chap- and jade ornaments which had been buried in it. lain to the Fores. When I hear Mr. Thomas The entire family of the criminal-consisting of Atkins falking contemptuously of them four generation, from a man more than ninety THE Chineso," I tell him that them Chinese "rare years of age to a female infant ouly a few months a highly civilie i duply philosophical people (okl-was exterminated" The fact, however, that when we were painted sange, awe ever knew. sible for every net of his suberlinales is a great
Not or the bendua.
in any position is rese
respon ance probe bly forgotten more than we ever km: halp to European in ployers. There is a tradi
To na China in a veritable toper-turvydom : but of course England seems the same to the tion of a head-compradore in a bank, who was Chinase. Their spare points to the souths, ours called to acent because the "boy" had allowed to the north. The bow of their janke is like a mosquito to insinuate itself within the mosquito the stery of our ressuls, and the junks seem to uet of the Ink manager, gail bookwede. In Western lauds a pillow is Instead of saying "How do you do?" when
bag of feathers to support the head; in Chi pa one Chinese acquaintance meets another. a pillow is a support for the neo c-uitker u usku, “Have you eaten your rice ?" If the inter- small stool of bamboo, a block of wood, ar mora rogated person has done this be answer, " YOR commonly a brick. What correspouts to his I beg your pardon." Hebegs pardon for having Christion uame comes after a Chiteman's ratiopated tie acquafutanes at broskfast of name; with us it is the other way. Thodioner. Chiness put on hate when eluting: wo tako them off. They laugh on reiving-bad news to doceive evil spirit. L
ng neil on the banda la China are
a sigu of
respectability in England, of untidings. The pince of
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bonour at a Chinose fevet is at the left hand instead of his tos in toe stirrups. He keps of the host. A Chinamo rides with his boels
out of step when walking with others. The Chinese road their books backward, and write in an opposite way to what we do. With them the mourning colour is white; with us it is black, At a fashionable dinner, with them soup is the
women wasr trousers, and the mon frequently gowns, A Chinamau pays a physi.ian to keep hiaself and bis family well; we pay when we turn il. When he meets acquaintances he shakes bis own hand and not theirs as we do.
and
A South Sea Islander unid of his raco," As on as open our mouth u li is burn "; a the Chinese acknowledge without shame the rame of themselves, it may be true amongst Western nations that "the affair of life hinge apon, confidence," but this is not trus in the Chins they hinge upon suspicion. Fast and east of all in China Hera iu There so few Chinese who attank any importance to keeping an engagement Most of them like the man who, being necused of having broken his promise, replied that it wre of no consequence, as he could make Tho, Chinese say that ono should never
renat in an abrupt manner, on the contrary, he should grant it in form, although with no intention to do so in substauce. Put him off till to-morrow, and then until app her to-morrow. Thus you com fort his heart'
last vonreo; with us it is the first. Chinese another just fase a
The Chinese sem to have no nerves, an never fars like Anglo-Saxons Exorcise for its own sake zeeion to them madness. Even the children play very quietly, and the babies rumaip perfadily tranquil tied on the backs of mothers who are at work. & Cantoness zaked a servant about a foreign lady whom he had seen How much is she paid for playing tennis rushing about like that being told
Nothing," he would not believe it.
The conservatism of the Chinese was first observed by me on the steamer in which I Brossed the Facilis. The "boy" who attended ma at dinner always wanted to bring exactly tho same food as that which I ordered the first day, and seemed to think I should have no change. A cook used to breais, and throw away on our before making a certain padding because the first egr happ-nel to be a bad one when he was shown how to make that pudding,
That riches pro a bardon is felt when travel. ling China. „Even the Mexicap doller is heavy, and when you get for one of these from eight hundred to a thousand brees pieces of money called cush, with holes in the centre and tied on strings, it may be imagined what on amount of “filthy lacre" you must bring with you for even a short tear. Au the lucre is ilthy; it cannot be handled without contamina- tios. The losses on silver coins are graat; hos belonging to one purt of the country will not. ba accepted at all in another, or only at a beavy discount. The inexperienced traveller loses both when he buys them and when he sells them. As for the strings of cash, their value changes every day and in every plac
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It is considered good manners in China to speak contemptuously of winteror belongs to the spouter and in terms of praine of whatever raintes to the person addressed. The polite Chuese will refer to his wife as his dull thorn," or in some similar elegant figure of speech, while the rustle alludes to the compa nion of his joys and sorrows as his "alinking woman. They will speak of your honourable wife, your honourable honse, honourable horse, dog, and so on.
No civilias antion is so superstitious and credulous as the Chinogo. ~ On the two days of the month ect spart for that purpose, the fox. the wourel, the hedgehog, toonnake, and the rat are worshipped. There are styled in printed placards Their Excellencies." Of China it might be said, as Gibbon remarket of nome, that to the common people all religious are equally trus, to the philosopher all are equally
and to the magistrate all are useful. Of the Emperor of China, as of the Roman Emperor, it might be affirmed that he is "at once a high priest, en wh-ist, and a god!" This is what has conse of Confucianism, mixed with polytheism and pantheism.-Chambers's Jouraut,
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Westo so poor that we cannot support mother; why not bury the chid? We may have auctber; but if mother should die, we cannot obtain her again." "Hie wife dared not oppose
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Au old woman who was hobbing along painfully was asked where she was going to. She was going to the home of a relative, so mu to die in a plice near to the family graveyard, and thus avoid the xpense of cofla-bearers for so long a distancy.
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A Chinoman is never in a hurry, but the amount of cheerful labour which he does is astonishing. He will take his time to it, how- ever, and he is as inaccurate about time as bo is about everything else. It is uncossary when travelling to acertain, when the distance is given in miles (f), whether themes are "large" or not! The method of reckoning is frequently based, not on distance, bas on the difficulty of getting over the ground. Ask & Chinoman how many families there are in his native village, and he will answer, "A few hundred.” Several hundred," or "Not a few." As for a Chinese census, all that can be said of it is. what we said of the Supreme Court of the United States: that it has "the last gruers at
To illustrate the vast scope of the work the following facts are submitted for consideration- Chalmers Vosbulary contains about 16,000 Chinese characters, and Medhurst's English and Chinese Dictionary about 100.000 whilst this work contains more than 50,000 English words, and upwards of 100,000, Chiness characters Again, despite all the grammars and othe elementary works as yet published, the studen of this difficult language absolutely requires ex amples
Hisplay tha various applications and equivalents of different words which have one general meaning. Of these examples this work contains more than five times as many as any other Dictionary hitherto published.
For practical purposes the arrangement of the with the work is so complete that a referenso to its pages LATEST IMPROVEMENTS and cat enables a person who understands English to ereputa Roy kind of SHIPBUILD. commanicate efectively with natives who under ING and MARINE ENGINEERING well stand nothing but Chinese. In this respect the az in BEPATRING of HIPS W
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HOTZ, 8'JACOB & CO. Hongkong, 1st September. 1902.
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THE WESTERN ASSURAKUE COM FANY OF TORONTO, CANADA, INCORPORATED 1971.
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