Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-04
HOME LIFE IN CHINA.
On IDEAS TELLS OF THE CELESTIAL
EMPIRE AND ITS INHABITANTS.
Al Foreigners Regarded with Contempt
1hs Doctors and Their Trestment--No
Raiiroads--The Missionary.

DR.. Deas. Of this city. who for eight years
had charge Of hospital near Foo Chow,
China. had an interested so, OF listeners in
Colonel CutshAw's Office Friday night, 70
whom he related some Of the queer man
ners and customs Of the people OF the
Flowery Kingdom. This gentleman was
born in Richmond. graduated a. the vir.
cinis Medical College. and WINS ono OF the
6rst doctors who had charge OF the city
ambulance. He has travelled over the
whole world, both by land and se1. and
visited China before when boy.
In the first part Of his talk tho Doctor
told of how all Chinese physicians carry IN
addition 20 their Instruments case ol
needles Of all sizes. in which they have
great faith and use quite frequently.
A needle inserted in the stomach IL re.
rarded as a sure cure for colo, and fire.
quently has the desired effect.
ouRns BY NEEDLES.
The Monaghan physicians will insors
numerous needles near tho Joint OF leg af-
fected by rheumatism. They then compel
the subject 10 walk. The patient will howl
with pain. but the doctor Will tell him II
does not hurt and 10 stop yelling. Their
frmness 10 great degree overcomes tue
SUFFERING OF tntiI Nttt,us o.iu t''
cure often results after the needles ore
withdrawn.
The Chinese doctors, continued the
narrator. have an extensive pharmacopia.
They have q Grade calcmel, numerous
mineral preparations nnd an infinite va
riety Of vegetable remedies, In the use oil
which they are quite skiltul.
The medical men have great faith in
ginger for fever and almost invariably pre-
- haltaVarQ
posites. and favor cold remedies for a hot
sickness"--their name for fever.
OUTSIDE pARBABIASs.
The Chinese. the Doctor went on to say,
hardly know the difference between an
American, Englishmnn. Frcncbman, or
German. All foreigners in their language
are "outside barbartans. and as such are
looked down upon with tho utmost con-
tempt.
He was sure that the Mongolians as q
class were very dirty race. They attach
no importance whatever to cleanliness.
but on their part the Chinese think the
short cont of the man and the tight-6tting
dress of the woman. showing the contour
of her form. the height OF indecency. The
Chinese woman. their model of propriety.
always wears loose garment which gives
no suggestion of the form it is intended TO
hide. the foot alone being exposed to
view.
ENGLISH sETTLEs'ENrs,
There is. said the speaker. near each
large CITY in China what ~ known as q
concession" which is really the English
quarter. The buildings in these are on q
magnificent scale being of brick. stone,
and like materials TheI often extend for
miles along superb streets. Tho whole air
of these concessions" is one of complete
ness and soliditv. The ground Of these
belongs TO the Chinese empire, which con-
cedes il 10 the English for nominal annual
consideration. in fact an amount so small
that IT is hardly worth mentioning. really
intended as an acknowledgment that the
land belongs TO China.
THEIR LANGUAGE.
The Chinese name for their dialect,
which il easily learned, means, The Ian
cuagc of the Middle Kingdom" This
name is given through the conceit OF the
natives, who when they draw map OF the
world make big round space. That is
China. They then make whole lot. of
little dots oil around. These are the other
countries.
There are numerous dialects indigenous
10 the various parts of the country. Most
of the Cinnamon IN this country come
from Hong Kong. and are by no means fair
representatives of their race, who are gene
rally short ana squatty.
WALLED cIrrEs.
There nre no railroads in China. Thew
could hardly be run. as each city is walled
in.
DIR. Davis said that to get TO Hong Kong
from where he lived no had TO come down
the Yang-tse-Kiang river $50 miles and then
sail down the coast for three days:
The question was often asked why ii was
I.ok khn MANY t,,fcai nrtpg sent IN China
had made SO little impress upon the people.
There is nothing strange in this, he said,
when IL is remembered that the population
of the empire is about 3S5,000,000. The
country ia the most populous in the world
being made up of numbers of cities not far
from one another. The inner and western
portion Of the empire is unknown land 10
the missionaries, who seldom penetrate 1t.
The native portions of the cities are
very uprepossessing, being mostly bam-
boo huts.
OPIUM NOT WANTED.
The better people among the Celestials.
DR.. Deas said, are deadly opposed TO opium.
which was really forced on them by the
English Government.
This he explained was on account of a
provision contained IN the treaty made
with England at the conclusion OF the last
warm 1858.
The English Government insisted that all
the opium from India sh ould be carried to
China. The latter was PROSTATE and was
bound TO accept. OF course after the drug
was brought to China there wero hume
rous merchants willing TO buy it and live
on the depravity of the people.
II was this same overbesring policy OF
England that led her TO take possession of
the islands of Hong Kong and Singapore.
TO which she had no earthly right.
Tho Doctor hopes to revisit China at
some future time.