The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-11


7 preeepts Of eastern ana western eti1letle
f On his first visit he ignored sex al-o-
. Eetner.
How they came 10 appear in public I'M
I yelled puzzled him sOrely. but for all ne
/ knew, the desire 20 meet a guest Of his
I cahner might have overcome their dis
I erection, or perhaps they mad broken
I loose under the iusueuce OF stImulauts
] Al all events. be- tried 90 show his SUPP
rior good breeding Dy ignoring the breech
I OF decorum, Ike medical commissioned
! OF my acqualurance, VINO went tnrO ~ 2
I the tormaiity of his periodical visit to g
I state unatic asylum and remained as
/ grave as a silVeI-gray owl, when one o.
! the inmates rusleI into the parlOr dressed
| chiefly in deficits, ]. e., minus even TIE
! natural head-drcss that had been shaved
/ Tor the benefit Of his Overheated brain.
! The commission firmly ignored the
/ SCUM sea apparllon, and the shan des
! shans mOdestly averted his eyes whenever
D "a female OF his species entered the recep-
I uOu nail OF a European arlStOCrdt. He
| proudly declined 10 take unfair adVant-
/ ages. For all he knew. MS entertainers
might De writing in shame, and ne did
not wish to aggraVate their embarrass-
I ment. When the inUuders had the au-
I dacity to take a seat a his side he arose
/ 10 admire the fine view from the balcony
window If they carried their Impotence
| to the length Of addressing him person
ally, he turned 10 one Of his male cOmpan-
| IONS or, as last resort picked up nap
KIN, with an embroidered monogram and
moved his lips II in reading.
hen IL was too late he learned TO his
amazement thar these acts Of self-denial
had given repeated and deep ofense
His Indifference 10 the progress OF British
industries had been explained away, but
no spirited lady or her male champions
| could forgive the spretae lnjuria tormae
the oftense Of neglected beauty. lie
ought to have addressed and cOmpH-
! mented his fair admirers. Addressed
them2 Flattered them2 Oh, Allahi How
| Pretended to acknowledge their irresisti-
| bic charms?" Nassar-ed-din muttered a
quotation from an Oriental satirist, but
| resolved to conform 20 the eccentricities
Of his western friends. He procured ad-
ditiOnal English dictionaries; also a hand
book Of physiology ana on his next visit
| made II rule to acqualnt obtruslVe la
dies with his impressions of their physi-
cal characteristics.
isn't your hide smooth! Never saw
the like! Wait clawing her neck and
shoulders-"beats a peeled onion And
| That inserting his fingers In her
nostrils; how do YOU contract them that
way? They are wide open in most of our
eastern girls, as in a calf. DO you use
sulphur to bleach your hair? Well. we'll
IT'S almost white. Etched to match that
! silk dress Of yours / suppose. or is it
| true tnat you are born white-haired Ike
! young pigs, and turn brown afterWard?
/ Let me see your teeth and so on, till
| his victims wished he had been allowed
| 70 stick to his original eastern pro-
gramme.
| You are fatter than a Bulgarian girl
/ l once saw on an Austrian steamer" he
told Miss Mabel Chamberlain" I hope
| they have not stuffed you with pork and
The story about his sucking a big as
] paragus and then thrusting Ii into the
| mouth of a lady at his side may be a
| London fiction. but there is no doubt that
banquet hall by kneading a dumping OF
| pilan (rice and butter) like n snowfall
| and then forcing it down the throat of a
| German traveller. Nassr' ed-din strictly
| conformed to the etiquette of his own
| court by smashing chinaware as soon as
| he was done with it and throwing nap
| kns under the dinner table-no oriental
potentate being expected to use his table
utensils more than once, not even on
/ a hunting trip. on the hunting eXcur-
| sions to the highlands of the Eilrus
range the shah's tent master carried sep
arately packed sets of platters, cups and
| spoons for every day, and after each sup
| per distributed them. by his masters or
der, to the native deer drivers The idea
| of snatching his plates away to prevent
| as an exhibition of indicate economy
! equaled only by the thrift of the Swiss
| landlord, who, before the eyes of his
| guests, scraped together their remnants
| of hash with the aVowed purpose of serv-
| ing them again a. the next meal.
| The king of Kings possibly only flung
| away his napkins to give his entertainers
| an object lesson in the higher branches
| of politeness, and meant no more harm
| than the Imam Of Muscat, South Aus
tralan potentate, who Mortified the stew
ard of a French man-of-war, by using the
seryiettes az he ought to, have used a
| handing them to the bystanders.
| The explanation of that outrage was
| furnished by a missionary who had pass
| ed several years at the capital Of the
| napkin desecratOr The Imam Cor
| Imaum), he said, is not only a secular,
| but spiritual dignitary, grand mufty,
| as well as sultan, and enjoys many of
! the honors of the Dalai Lama. Flunkeys
| gather up the crumbs OF his meals, his
| toothpicks and almond shells, and sell
| them to the deVOut as so many miracle
| working amulets. His sOiled handker-
! chiefs are in great demand, so much so,
! indeed, that he would think 1t unfair
| to stint the supply, and taWning court
| iers every now and then appear with
| presents of slVered boxes serving the
! purpose of cuspidors, and compete for
| the privilege of exchanging them for less
| immaculate specimens. The foreign con-
! suls are required to limit their choice
| of residence to the harbor suburb of Mus
| cat and cannot approach the person
/ of the priest-king without preliminary
! of preposterOus ceremonies. on one Occa-
! sion the Iman's vizier made a call al the
! British Office at time when the consul
! was unavoidably detained Rather than
| waive a point or prerogatve, the viz!er
sat in his palanquin immovable, for a
! quarter of an hour, then, on seeing the
| English envoy approach, descended from
| his seat, walked toward a garden wall
| and deliberately pulled out a pipe, cleaned
| IL. filled 1t, took few experimental whiffs.
| till he had kept the foreigner waiting
| at least fifteen minutes, when he faced
about and inaugurated his conference with
| grave politeness.
But not all viziers contented themselves
with such reprisals. In the good old
times of free-any-easy piracy the Dey of
| Algiers, in receipt OF tributes from every
| sea power in Christian Europe, would not
| have swapped crowns with any other au-
1 tocrat of the universe, and literally made
ambassadors crawl into his presence.
Fall nine times on your faces, We infe-
| rior, two-legged entities" or words TO
| that effect, before he would condescend
to receive their message. A Spanish plen-
| ipotentiary, with an armed retinue and a
| corvette to back his demands, took the lib
erty to force himself into the introduce
| tory humiliations but promptly ascertain
ed his mistake. At the viziers stern com
! mand the guards seized the offender turn
ed him upside down and gently but firmly
| forced him to kiss the floor
nine times before they put him on his feet
! again, and gave him chance to express
| his cOntrition. as well as his swollen lips
| would permit.
The audiences of the padisha, Source
of all Grace without Appeal" as The
! Turks call him, were generally limited to
| three minutes for each applicant and for
| centuries the masters of ceremonies could
rarely be induced to make an exception
! in favor of the ambassadors of a first
] class power; nay, generally compelled a
| special envoy to furnish a previous out
! line ~ business n order m avOfI 1,