The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-23
A illNooo CRITICISM.
An Educated East Indian Gives His IN.
prcssions OF the English.


An educated Hindoo, who is writing q
series Of his first impressions of England
in The Inlian Spectator. eulogizes the
comfort of English homes, laments the
costumes on English fruits and Geclares
that John Bull has TOO many things TO
attend to o look after cooking. In
fruits he cNcels everybody. In sweets
he is not inferior 10 the Frenchman, and
always inferior to the Indians"
He continues: John Bull loves to be ex-
elusive. Every man for himself ia his
motto. Let me alone is his ideal Of soci-
| ETY.. You might travel for hours in The
samc compartment of train withou. ex-
changing half a dozen words with YOUR
companions. should not be surprised
if they wanted heaven to themselves.
Perhaps Swedenborg was right. Even
their tirts. male end female, have an air
| of cold solemnlty about them which
makes Your blood run cold in your veins.
| Their very amusements SAVIOR Of bust
ness. Most Of them have a cynic dis
gust of life, are always morose, and,
though burning with n desire TO oblige
you. quite capable Of making you turn
away in disgust at their GOODNESS. Then
there is so much stoutneSs and solidity in
their character. What they do they do
with viii II they cat, they eat like
giants; if they drink, they drink like
giants, turning brandy into water, but If
they work. they also work like giants.
No half heartedness, no irreSolution, no
want of carnestness about them. lfyou
see them walking in the streets of Lon
don yoI would think the world had come
to an end Yet they are only going to
the parks.
Everybody has hobby. The nation is
50 full Of cccentricities. They hold their
own: tell lie and stick to it, is their
motto; and then they love opposition. 1t
Is crime TO bc poor. The goddess Of
wealth has more votaries than any
church. To call one beggar is the
greatest insult Short accounts make
long friends, SO goes the English proverb,
not like the Indian provcrb friends ac-
counts are settled in heart. Nobody
tolerates being under money obligations
TO another If he can help it. Your money
is the test Of your merit In India poor
men could live and even be comparatively
comfortable. In England it is not 50. 1t
Is the law of the survival of the fttest,
and the fittest is Inc who commands most
money. There is "A feycrish competition
everywhere. and To be man OF indepen-
dcut means is everybody s ambition. This
lie at the root of all that material pro-
Srcss which one everywhere finds in
England. But unlike our people, whose
4 per cents or massive buildings or curl
ous jewels are often the only evidence cf
thcir wealth, they know how to make
good use of their money.
Every EnSlishman and Englshwoman
works, if not 10 earn a livelihood, to do
good to others. The climate is fatal to
an idle man. \ Frenchman considers to
show capacity is the end of speech in de-
bate; IN Englishman considers the end Of
speech in debate is to advance business.
They require everybody to be true to his
and often missed manya
one by being only "A minute too late. Fer
a punctual man, man of work, nothing
Is too good, and there is not public man
who Is not man Of work. A good
speaker - not always looked upon as the
best man in ministry minister who
does not work is soon elbowed out. Their
GIadstones, Hartingtons, Churchills, Par
nells, Bradlaughs are working themselves
10 death IN their respective causes, other
wise they would be nowhere. Reserve
power. nothing by fits and starts, is the
rule. Nobody hates show and humbug
more than they, and the best dressed man
3 he whose dress cXcites no notice.
Englishnen talk of the baneful effects
# caste in India as if they had none in
England, though it may not be in tho
anne sense. \ poor man is Sudra and
rich man a lord, peer, Brahmin;
nut the English Sudra can, like Viswa-
mira Of Hindoo mythology, be Brah-
mn, not by austcrities like the royal
age, but the austerities in the accumu-
alton of wealth. An Englishman never
ardons his superiors for any familiarity
oward him, nor does he pardon himself
Or any toward those below him. Vein
ndla have yet TO learn the lesson Of
and re<pluteness, and one
light willingly sacrifice half the rhet-
ric of the country for a tenth Of that
orit Of self help which is so strongly
in England. There they do
i that they attempt. Perhaps this sys-
IN of mutual dependence is the great
lnc of our society. Joint family" is
Dt theif motto; as soon as a man mar
Is he hires separate lodgings and keeps
paratc house. The Hindoo suffers, the
nglisLman struggles Pail Mall Ga
tie