The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17

who speaks English fuently; WI Lu Lun,
a lifetime satellite and friend, who nearly
lost his life in vain attempts to save the
American missionaries at Pao-Ting-Fu;
DIR. Mark, Interpreter Tseng and the ma
tive Hanlin secretary, ia Shih Mel. About
a dozen good-sized bowls of food are
placed in the center of the square table,
and each participant in the meal attacks
whichever of the bowls he fancies in turn,
using his ivory chopsticks TO withdraw the
rich mOrsels.
SIMPLE WAY OF EATING.
The food is cut into such shape before
cooking that it can easily be conveyed to
the mouth without further dissection.
Knives at the table are unheard of. The
food is always we'll cooked. Whether
boiled, stewed. roasted or fried, it is always
well done. Half-cooked-or, as we prefer
to call it. rare-meat is an unknown dish to
the Celestial.
y sample breakfast of Earl Lis would
consist of pork boiled. fried and roasted;
boiled pigeons eggs in a rich sauce; stewed
FISH in gravy; balls of bean curd and cab
bage, fried; salt pickles; fresh radishes
soups and the finishing bowl of white rice,
without which no meal is complete. He al
ways wears his coarse blue cotton bib over
his rich silk robes and il is very necessary,
for the old gentleman's heavy mustache
sweeps many greasy fragments off his
chop-stIcks or porcelain spoon on to the
LAOllA u lis Bal Gil Much HOlSG Is maQe
in eating. with the lips, as the food is all
eaten hot, and in order TO avoid burning a
slipping and sucking is necessary that
strikes a European as much the same
noise as one hears in a pigsty.
Conversation is never brisk at the earlier
parI of a meal, bat as repletion progresses
more or less talk is INDUCED in. more fire.
quently about the eatables than any other
topic. A light wine, something like sherry.
known as huang chin, brewed from millet.
Is INDUCED in by all, and Ii himself drinks
q glass of foreign mort Winn after aocb
meal. never asking any one to join him.
After a hot napkin to his face he INDUCES
into his bedroom, where he sleeps from
one TO two hours, no one being allowed to
disturb him.
At 3 o'clock. Earl Ii dimes. and i'm snite
of the fact that he has only a few teeth left
and Will not submit to learning to use arti-
fetal teeth, which he has tried on two oc-
casions for a few minutes only. he eats
voraciously OF fatty and indigestible arti-
cles that would kill a less hardy man. As
1t is. he has lately had several bad at
tacks of indigestion that have threatened
his life. After dinner he dozes along
through the evening, smoking innumerable
water pipes until 8 D. m, when he takes a
hot footbath.
THE DAYS END.
1 ave often been present at this per-
Torrance. \ man specially kept for this
duty makes his appearance promptly on
time with a wooden pail like a child's bath
lNO. lie NACSIeSdl Sihe0 gown Is tucked
up about his waist, his shoes and stock
ings are removed and the man, sitting on
the floor at his feet. proceeds 10 parboil
his wasted eXtremities After a quarter of
an hours bathing his feet are dried and a
new dOgskin plaster Of black ointment the
size Of a silver dollar is placed in the CEN
ter of the sole of each foot. The first time
1 witnessed this procedure the viceroy
asked me if 1 ever prescribed these sole
p~lasters.
What are they for?" I inquired.
They protect me against kidney dis
ease" he replied. II have had them made
by the same firm of Mohammedans outside
the city gate for many years and never go
TO bed without them. Don't YOU think
they are good? I have worn them many
years and have never had kidney disease"
IF that is the case" l replied. Il should
think one in the palm of each hand might
be a good thing. too"
He laughed heartily and said: mo. 1
guess 1 VIII stick TO the original prescrip-
ton"
As soon as the plasters are in place
the signal Is given and Lis household Of
fcers leave him in the hands of the two
clumsy Wallets. who lug him into the ad-
joining stuffy room and deposit him on his
foreign bed. covered with a good hair mat
tress and having springs, His day is fin
iShed.