Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19
NEW BOOK BY A
FAMOUS SURGEON
SIR FREDERICK TREvES ON A
TOUR OF WORLD
Entertaining Volume Of Impressions
Under the Title, 1.-THE 9TH
er Side Of the Lam
term
snsc,a, Cable 10 The Herald.

Special Cable TO The Herald.
LONDON, Feb. 1S.-sir Frederick
Treves, the famous surgeon, has in
corporated his impressions of a world
tour into a magnificent volume, which
has Just been published under the title
of "The Other side of the Lantern
The following are few random Sc
lections from the 42O pages of Sir
Frederick's brilliant description and
comments:
Port Said-Port Said owes its in
terest to it's reputation for wickedness
and general depravity. On going
ashore the visitor looks for that lurid
form of drinking saloon made familiar
by romance, which Is a maelstrom for
the virtuous and a shooting gallery for
the wicked. He expects to find q dead
man lying under a tree with a revolver
wound in his head, or to meet the dark
eyed italian lady whose footsteps lead
to the pit and whose acquaintance is
merely an introductory to the mortu-
ary. The people Of Port Said live large
ly on the tourists. The boys dance
round each newcomer with delight.
They address him as Mr.. Gladstone
and his wife as Mrs. Langtry.'
animals in the streets-It may be
that the impression of host of ami
mails in the streets is due to their un-
wonted admixture with the traffic. This
would be understood by imagining the
Bond street of Delhi transferred to the
Bond street of London. One could then
see camels striding down the road with
superciious disregard of the police, a
trainer of donkeys winding among the
hansoms and goats picking their way
between the carriages. A fat gray bull
would be doing on the steps of a
hatter's shop. couple of sheep would
be nosing among the trifles on a mil
liners counter, while buffalo, laden
with a pile of straw, would hustle the
frock-coated lounger from the pave
ment.
Know No Merriment
Indian women-A reasonable merri-
ment would be as little expected from
the women of India as from the Man
In the Iron Mask. There may be fe-
male Mark Tapleys in this peninsula
of the pessimist, but their efforts must
be severely tried. He who would see
what a human being looks like at the
age of 200 years should seek out one
of the toothless old women who crouch
in the dark doorways in the bazaar.
He would find a crooked, gray ghost
In rags,
Whose shriveled skim sun tanned,
Clings like beasts hide to it's feshless
bones.
Whose face shows wrinkles which oblit-
crate the features and seem to be
craven down to the very skull. Such
a poor soul may be no more than 60,
not have looked older.
"Simla-Simla, like Humpty Dumpty
of the nursery rhyme, sits on the top
of a wall, The wall is narrow and it's
sides are steep. A runaway horse is
therefore unsuited for Simla, nor is the
the inebriate after sundown.
"Benares-There is nothing worth
praying for in this world or in the next
that cannot be prayed for in Benares,
at an altar mindful of the particular
supplication.
"The Pagoda at Rangoon-On feast
day the staircase is alive with moving
n1o eli
hues, ever ascending and descending, a
glorious throng, only a little less
radiant than the company that Jacob
saw upon the ladder of his dream.
A Malay Village
"a Malay village-Beneath the huts
and lanes Of the little township the
tide ever. rises and falls. The Malay
baby is lulled to sleep by the tapping
of the sea against the piles, and the
naked boy finds the water and the
canoe beneath the house a better play
ground than the dusty land. The for
NAL Malay village is kind of rustic
Venice.
THE Celestial motorist-One motor
car 1 saw driven by Chinese gentle
man in the brilliant raiment of his
country He had neither goggles over
his almond shaped eyes nor had he
tucked his queue into a motor cap.
"Chinese and Foreign Devils-They
find the foreigner mysterious and un-
canny. He frightens them, and his
ways fill them with alarm. They are
distrustful of his ships. which move
against wind and tide, of The dreadful
things he does with steam. and the
terrifying things he does with wires.
They call him devil, for his ways are
not of this world. He will run a cut
ting through a grave yard. will store
his goods In a pagoda. and will ap-
pear neither to fear idols nor regard his
ancestors, and yet he does not fall
dead -