The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-09
ETIQUETTE At THE FAIR.
4 Boston Girl Who Thought She Had
Been Treated Rudely.

embarrassing experiences meet the
visitor among the strange people at
Jackson park, unless he under
stands their customs and ceremouials.
saws the News Record A highly cult
ured bespeckled Boston girl discovered
as much when she paid a long visit to the
cabin of the Fort Rupert Indians on the
bank of South pond. The Indians.
who know good deal of English, had
entertained the visitor for half an hour
while she filed a note book Tor future
reference When pause came one of
the men turned his back on the visitor
and said: GO away, now" The Boston
girl left at once and when outside she re-
marked to the guard: ''Those people are
inexpressibly rude" But she was quite
mistaken. They had treated her,
according to their rules of polite
ness, with the utmost respect. 1t
is the mode among the Ouackahls
for the host to terminate a call by
telling the visitor to go. A visitor who
chose for himself the time of leaving
would break the most important rules of
good breeding, as the Quackahls view it,
and it is required that he remain until he
is asked to go.
There are more kinds of etiquette in the
plaisance and around Jackson park than
in any spot of its size in the world to-day.
To do the right thing visitor would need
a pocket edition of etiquette priated in six
teen languages. The different usages are
not of a temporary nature but are dyed
in-the-wool rules esta blished by centuries
of usage Some of them are quite differ
ent from the laws laid down by Mr. Nc
Allister of New York, but they are coin
current among the people, and the visitor
who wishes to see all that is to be seen and
not be de trop should be posted
Next to the French the Javanese have
the reputation of being the most polite
people in the world. No matter what po-
sition in life they occupy the law of
courtesy toward strangers never varies.
When introduced to stranger the Java
nese folds his hands in front of his chest
in the attitude of prayer, greets the Wis
itOr with word of welcome, raises his
hands still folded to his forehead and
says: 81 am honored" This little cere-
mony is gone through with while the
Javanese is on his knees. He never
stands upright when receiving a friend
1t is not proper to offer to shake hands
with one of these gentle little folks from
Java, and their girls never kiss each
other The other day two American
girls met outside the JaVanese village
and greeted each other in the good whole
some American way. The dancing girls
from Solo thought they were fighting and
asked all sorts of questions
A Javanese servant, in handing his
master anything, falls on his knees.
reaches out the article with his right
hand, touches his right elbow with the
fingers of his loft hand, and raises his
two hands to his head. This is not SER
Witty, only courteous way of saying
that every energy of his body is devoted
TO his masters comfort as long as his
mind lasts.
Among the Turks there are strange
habits In greeting a stranger they bow
very low and remain perfectly silent until
spoken to. They will then shake hands
in genuine English fashion. One Turk
calling on another will never sit down
until the host arrives, even if he has to
wait an hour. When the host comes in
the two sit down after having exchanged
greetings, and not another word is spoken
until coffee is served The Syrians, on
the other hand, will not turn their faces
to a host before being spoken to. It is the
proper thing when visiting one of them
to take a seat with the back to the door
and wait until the host enters and make
no move until spoken to, when the visitor
Is expected to rise and bow
To fully understand all an Egyptian
says and does is a harder task than de-
ciphering the hieroglyphics on an obelisk
To start with, they shake hands. To do
this properly the guest first grasps his
hosts thumb in the right hand, then his
fingers, then his thumb, without moving
the arm. II well acquainted after shax-
ing hands, he puts his left arm under the
Egyptians right arm, reaches over
his left shoulder and pounds
him on, the back with the
right hand until he gasps. The harder
the pounding the more polite. The Ian
guage Of the Egyptian gentleman is the
most fulsome possible. If he should be in
need Of little temporary loan he will
pound the man whom he hopes to con-
tidence successfully on the back until he
can hardly breathe. Experts in Egyptian
etiquette can tell by the pounding process
what is coming, and when the ceremony
reaches the pile-driver degree it is the
proper thing to say: ''What can do for
you"
On hearing this the Egyptian will talk
something like this: ''Do for me? Why,
my dear and most honored sir, your
humble dog OF. servant would not pre-
sumo to ask favor of one so great as
you. thought of calling on you yester-
day, but it rained and l feared that you
would not be in good humCr and might
refuse me, but then ! want nothing. Who
am | that a humble follower of
MOhammed should dare to ask of
you, my great lord and master. the
very slightest favor? And yet if it had not
rained yesterday should have been fully
inclined to ask you for temporary aid,
but to-day I would not think of causing
your highness any trouble. Why should
l, who am so lowly, ask one for IS for
few days2 1t would be an insult to you;
one you never could forget. What, you
insist on it2 ! am to take this, am II
Now, really, as was saying that one so
low-but if you positively insist, if you
are sure you will be deeply and terribly
insulted if do not take it-but your dog
OF a servant
That settles it. Having obtained the
money he marches out without thank
you or good-by. The same process would
be in form if the Egyptian wanted to
borrow a pound of sugar until his servant
could go to a grocery store The Egyp-
tlans never say a word at parting. Thanks
for entertainment offered and good day.
are considered superfluous. When a.
visitor wants to go he gets up and walks
out, and that ends il.
Among the Algerians only few pc
culiar habits are retained Since the
French occupation they have acquired the
habits of the invaders. A few odd
practices are still observed. One of these
is that an Algerian never bows. When
meeting a stranger his neck is as stiff as
piece of wood In shaking hands the
arm is never, moved In Laughing the