New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-01-06
EOODPOINTS ABOUTCHINA
A New Yorker Who has Boon to shanx-
hal Likes tho Latter City Best

/ IN emma, george Dean, a naGlVe OF the
Ninth ward in this city, returned to
New York few weeks ago with the IN
tention Of remaining here. His moth
er, three sisters, and a brother live in
the same house they occupied when he
went away. He had been here only
two days when he began to be home
sick for China. He thought that time
would conquer the feeling, but it be-
came stronger every day, and
soon he babe his mother and sis
tiers farewell, and sailed for Liverpool
on his way back to the strange coun-
try he had learned to love better than
his native land.
II miss SO many things, and every
thing comes unhandy to me here,'' he
SAID. For instance, every body drinks
cold water here, and laughs at me
when want to do as they do III
China and take my water warm. In
China 1t is impolite to take your hat
off on entering a house, and here l
have forgotten myself &, dozen times,
and been stared at and frowned at
by ever so many beca ase l observed
| the Chinese etiquette and kept my
hat on my head on going into peoples
houses. L find myself ordering my
desert first at dinner, as I and all
Cinnamon do at home- 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 che cups. l forgot myself 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 townlot. couldn't
think OF going anywhere without it..
But it has brought me only ridicule
wherever went. I find that my visit
ing cards, made after the best Chinese
fashion, each one printed on a yard
OF the finest silk paper imaginable, are
simply useless here, and ii used would
create a strong suspicion that | was
insane. 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 Igo to bed here my head sinks
down deep into the pillow, and
splutter and tumble all night and
can't sleep. At home-in China,
meant rest Oh a pillow as hard as
wood, and sleep like a top.
"The other day my nephew, ayoung
man whom / liked very much, asked
me what [ thought would be a nice
thing for him to buy as a present for
his father at Christmas. I answered
at once:
t'The very best coffin you can af-
ford"
"Why-do you believe me?-he was
insulted. andmy dear old mother was
vastly shocked. It all came OF my be-
ing thoroughly Chinese. It is quite
the proper thing in China for son to
buy a coffin for his living father. In
fact, it is expected that he will do so if
he is possessed Of sufficient flia] regard.
| | told my friends so, but that shocked
| them still more and Twas miserable
again. There is no use. | never
could get along here at all. I shall
die if l don't get back home-to China
mean.
eyes, everything seems to be donein
China exactly opposite to the way in
which it is done here. Here I am Mr..
Dean, in China am Dean Mr.. They
don't use any soap to shave with in
China, but simply to rub the part to
be shaved with warm water, put on
with a brush like toothbrush. The
part to be shaved is never the face but
the top Of the head. The front of a
Chinese book is the last page, and the
reader begins at the right-hand corner
Of the page and reads down. Thefoot
notes are always at the top. The
title of the book is printed on the out
side margin OF thepage. Ifyou should
ever enter a school room in China you
would surely think the scholars were
engaged in mobbing the teacher, Tor
they study their lessons as loud as
their lungs will let them. When they
recite they back up to the teacher and
stand with their faces to the other
screaming pupils, instead of the teach
ers, while they yell their recitations
all together.
'In China the needle on the compass
always points to the south. AT any
rate, the Cinnamon believes it does.
There is no northwest or southeast
In their place we have westnorth and
eastsouth. Isee that you have in
New York artists who live by trim.
ming finger nails. They would be run
out OF China, for a person who hasn't
finger nails four inches long there ism I
much in society.
''They never have any breach o1
promise cases in China. A future
6 Chinese belle isn't three days old be
fore her parents have betrothed he1
to some acceptable scion of neigh.
boris house. When she is old enough
and she doesn't have to be very old
for il she were in this country she
would be playing with her doll yet
she goes to the house OF her afianced
and marries him. She weeps and walls
all the way there, as if her idea OF mat,
rimony WASH t exactly cheerful one
There is always mourning at Chinese