The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-03
Visitorss in China
What Foreigners See
and Do in the Orient.

take into account the individual attitude
of the foreigner to the Oriental, brown
or yellow, omit a factor, which, i'm unim-
portant in detail cumula lively becomes
of slportance. We who in this country
are brought up TO observe certain re-
straints in dealing with subordinates
have little realization Of the license
which foreigners give themselves in their
personal relations with the Oriental A
possible comparison might be established
with the STAKEHOLDER Of the worst type
IN antebellum days. or with the mud
clerk of a Mississippi river steamboat
among his roustabouts. This is not an
exaggeratIon. says special correspon-
dent Of the New York Evening Post. In
illustration 1 have seen an English mem
Der OF parliament roaring at the Chin
csc major-domo in the dining room of
the Hotel de Pekin in a manner which
would exclude him from any continental
hotel. To this the Chinese, who under
stood English, presented that impassive
front which is his enviable requirement
But that he registered the afront IN his
memory, no one with any belief in the
fundamental traits of human nature
could doubt This same gentleman was
having a house fitted up in Pekin and
each workman who consulted him was
received and dismissed with showers Of
oaths.. As he spoke English one could
estimate the disproportion between the
matter and the foreigners comment
At Tientsin. the canal which separates
the railway station from the foreign con-
cession must be crossed in native boats.
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that I do not know how to estimate it.
In our boat was an elderly foreigner,
rudy with unnumbered cocktails, and
his boy" The cooHe asked for his
fare
Tell him 10 come up to the club for
It." the foreigner instructed his boy The
coolle demurred 10 going number Of
blocks for his fare For answer the
foreigner beat him over the shoulders
with his stick. and sought his ricksha.
you do not speak Chinese?" I ventur-
ed to ask. No. I talk with stick
ne answered. The stick I found not an
mfrequent substitute for speech"
In SeuI, the German consul did not hes
itate to push the acting secretary Of
state off his doorstep and slam the door
I'm his face when that official had denied
q German mining concession. Every
thing in Seul partakes Of the nature Of
opera-bouffee; the feelings of the Korean
were 50 hurt that he went home and re-
signed, and this closed the incident. The
mere effort to conceive Of such coils
ion at any European court or in our cap
ital puts an undue strain on the mag
nation. A missionary at Yokohama was
once arrested for breaking an umbrella
over ricksha collie's head and injur
Ing the ricksha He was tried in the
consular court and fined a substantial
sum But such incidents are OF the rar-
est The legations respect the dignity
of their position. The missionaries (and /
I had large opportunities for observation /
seemed altogether free from that inso- !
fence of demeanor which characterizes /
the foreigner in ~the east on the con- /
trary. in one household recall. the mis- I
tress called and had her children address /
the maid as 20 Taxi San" This seem
cd to lean too much to the other side. /
To have omitted the honorihc 90" would /
have been discourteous, even TO a mental /
TO add the san" was in its way revoiu- /
u0nary. She seemed TO think that ii in
hered in both her religion and her nat 1
ionality although the honorable Miss /
O'Flanigan is not yet demanded in any
American kitchen.
The presence in any country Of a num- /
Der of persons intent only on their per- !
sonal fortunes. feebly restrained by the |
customs and conventions of their own /
land. and not amenable to those of the /
country I'm which they happen 10 be. /
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