The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-06
.CH|NAMAN SAW
NOTHING HERE
BUT BARBAR|ANS
Americans Rarely Eat Rice
and Never Use Chop
sticks, He TellsHor.
rified Parents.

t,,, nelpre ~ large congregation at the
i Rey. Remfrey Hunt, OF chu Chico
China. delivered an address on the
missionary work In the Far East de-
NJ tn the wreteed eond
outlook sor the future e Of e Tie peepIe.
He he dec Jared that the Orient Is now .ex-
periencing period of transition. "The
more than fifteen million young men,
East mn N''e
dr The I'M manifest N eject Of the one hun
strong incentive to the chris sf am World
to carry on the work with ever-in-
Sbr c 81 zeal e The Chinese situation.
problem with which the whole civil
lized world will sooner or later have
70, dc deal. and ought therefore to be OF
chins as Ipon The fu,e Of
dwelt at length, showing, in conclusion.
that when through the Christian re-
ligion Chinese knowledge is allied with
something seriously to be reckoned
with.
Ills View of America.
Througllout the address Mr.. Hunt re-
lated Incidents of Chinese life which
sanitation Of his arguments In de-
scribing the. average Chinaman's dis
taste for the customs of American
i LIE. he read translation OF letter
Chinaman to his parents. The boy was
studying law in an American univer-
sity. and. true to the Chinese anti
patty. wrote to his parents, as fol-
I"vcncrnblc md Honorcd Sir, Exalted
One. Etc, Etc, Etc,
"Gre etinEs to the Ancestral Home, Etc,
"Ntay this letter bring peace and
gard to these over the sen lands, you
cannot civiltzc the foreign devils. They
nre beyond redcmption. It is so queer.
strange. They will live for weeks md
moOns without touching IL mouthful of
rice, but they eat the flesh Of bullocks
and sheep in enormous quantities. Tint
like sheep. Every day they tnke n
bath. They seem to need 40 much soap
to keep them clean.
"In their dininE-roomA they nre ale
Whiting up guests. sits hi,nself mt the
hcntl of the table, and his guests occupy
tho seats of lower rnnk. Their meat IL
not cooked Il, small pieces, but carried
often ia eaten half raw. 1t is so ter
rible. The host cuts and slnshcs md
tears the meat apart. They even eat
with knives and pronEs, never having
makes n civilized being perfectly ncr-
voua. One fancics himself IN the pres
cnce of sword swallowers.
Gas to politeness md decorum-well,
give 1t up! They even sit down at
the same table with their women. and
the women are even served hrst, thus
revc rising the high order OF nature.
Yet these women are to he pitied. They
laueta and talk e" loud a. the men, and
would scorn to do. On feative occas-
sions, they call by the name of round
hall. which Is n cross between an au-
idience chamber and scrnjlio, their
men drag their partially dressed ladies'
around brilliantly lighted room, to
the accompaniment of the most hellish
music. will relate more when ! greet
Mr.. Hunt has been in China eighteen
years and has been. one Of the most
successful workers there. Besides be-
ing a very able preacher and mission
airy, he is man OF scholarly attain
ments He has done considerable work
OF a literary nature. and is at present
a member OF the Royal Geographical
Society of England. re Will leave the
city this morning