The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-01-22
POINTS ABOUT CHINA.
A New Yorker Who Has Been to Shanghai
Prefers the Latter city To His
Old Home.

After an absence of twenty-five years
in China, George Dean returned 30 New |
York two weeks ago with the intention |
of remaining. His mother, three sisters,
and brother live In the same house |
they occupied when he went away. lie |
had been here, says the New York Sun, |
only two DAYS when he began TO be |
homesick for China. He thought that |
time would conquer the feeling, but II
became stronger every day, and on
Thursday he babe his mother and sisters
farewell and sailed for Liverpool on his
way back 20 the strange country he had
learned to love better than his native
land.
81 miss so many things and everything
comes unhandy to me here he said.
"For instance, everybody drinks cold
water here, and laugh at me when ]
want to do MS they do in China and take
my water warm. In China II Is i'm.
polite to take your hat off on entering a
house, and here have forgotten myself
dozen times, and been stared at and
frowned at by ever so many because
observed the Chinese etiquette and kept
my hat on my head ON going into pco-
Piles houses end myself Urderlhg my
dessert first at dinner, as and all China
men do az home--I mean in Shanghai
and my embarrassment has been great.
Polite natives OF China always drink
their tea from their saucers, which are
placed on top Of the cups. forgot my
self more than once and did the same,
with an effect on others that made me
very uncomfortable. On going out /
invariably have taken my fan, and fan
like mine couldn't be purchased in New
York for the price Of town lot |
couldn't think Of going anywhere with
out it. But it has brought me only ridi-
cule wherever | went. find that my
visiting cards, made after the best Chi
nese fashion. each one printed on yard
of the finest silk paper imaginable, are
simply useless here, and If used would
create a strong suspicion that | was in
sane. In China my bed, and every body
else's bed, is formed Of mating, while
here the mating is laid on my bedroom
floor for me TO walk on. When ! go TO
bed here my head sinks down deep into
the pillow, and | splutter and tumble
about all night and can't sleep. At
home-in China, mean--I rest on q
pillow as hard as wood, and sleep like a
top.
"The other day my nephew, a young
man whom | like very much, asked me
what thought would be nice thing
for him TO buy as present for his
father at Christmas. | answered at
once:
1.-the very best coffin you can af-
ford. "
.'Why-do you believe mep---he was
insulted; and my dear old mother was
vastly shocked. II all came Of my being
thoroughly Chinese It is quite the
proper thing in China for son to buy
coffin for his living father. In fact II
is expected that he will do so If he il
possessed Of sufficient filial regard.
told my friends SO. but that shocked
| them still more, and | was miserable
again. There is 10 use. never could
get along here at all. shall die if
don't get back home to China, ] mean.
"Yes. everything seems to be done in
China exactly opposite to the way in
which it is done here. Here am MIR.
Dean. In China | am Dean Mr.. They
don't use any soap to shave with in
China. but simply rub the part to be
shaved with warm water, put on with .
brush like a toothbrush. The part e
be shaved is never the face. but the tor
Of the head. The front of Chimes
book is the last page, and the reader be
gins at the right-hand corner Of thu
page and reads down. The foot~note
are always at the top. The title Of th'
book is printed on the outside margin o
the page. II you should enter a school
room in China you would surely thinl
the scholars we're engaged in mobbins
the teacher, for they study their lesson
as loud as their lungs viii let them
When they recite they back up to th
teacher and stand with their faces TO tn
other screaming scholars, instead Of tn
teacher, while they yell their recitation
all together.
'In China the needle on the compas
always points TO the south At any rate
the Chinaman believes it does. Their,
is no northwest or southeast In thei
place we have westnorth and eastsouth
/ see that you have in New York artist