The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-27


everything. Yet he could not be
hired TO do anything below his posi-
ton, and If 1 wanted an extra pillow
for my bed the 'cOOlie" was. sent by
the boy" to fetch it, He showed
me his coffin, of which ne is very
proud. He keeps II as carefully as
l do the dress suit which 1 pun out
for Alta club banQuets and charity
balls.
F.. 1 have had the same widely varying
types Of bath tubs that I have had OF
boys" since leaving the land OF the
striped flag. First on shipboard was
the great canvas tank. for all the
world like d huge bag. holding
hundred barrels of water. Here /
would swim each morning. In Japan
the bath consisted of q sunken place
in the floor, Ia POmpeii; when /
got in il / jumped about six feet, the
water was so hot. In China / found
an immense stone bowl, and in Ma
Mia a real American bath tub. on the
North German Lloyd steamer from
ROngkong to Singapore 1 was nearly
drowned i'm the bath tub, but swan 10
the brim and saved myself
In Singapore my room was in two
stories; on the upper story nay bed.
surrounded by mosquito bar, and be-
meath this a great bath room twenty
feet square. Here is a large round
tub, from which 1 dip the water and
pour il over my body the tiled floor
of the room carrying away the liquid
As l notice one Of the rules of the
hotel is that guests must not carry
away the furniture" 1 have decided
not 10 bring the bath tub away with
me.
"Heathen Chinee" Does Well
The heather Chinee" appears 10
have done mighty well in this section
of England's possessions. Numerous
dwellings that viii compare with
Thomas Kearns' in magnihcence, sur
rounded by grounds that are simply
beyond description in their beauty
are owned by native Cinnamon here.
Indeed. fOur-fifths Of the business is
done by Chinese, who, for CONNER
cial sagacity, surpass the Hebrew.
The banks, the stores, the big COM
mercial houses, are filled with China
men, whose honesty and skill are pro-
verbal.
The effect of the recenr Cmay
also say present. rubber boom is
evident on all sides. In Java, in SUI
matra, in the Malay peninsula, plan
tatiOns of pineapples and bananas
and coffee trees are being torn up
and replanted in rubber trees. The
milky sap running down the rubber
trees and filling the cups tackled 70
the bark is the familiar sight. These
rubber plantations have been doomed
and doomed and doomed until they
mark an advance in the stock mar
kets greater than our mining con-
I'm "a ath
been a drop and drop and drop until
millionaires have been left paupers.
1t is a great region for speculation
and the fever in turn has turned from
spice to coffee, coffee to pineapples.
10 cOcOanuts, cOcOanuts
10 qulnlne, quinine 10 tin, and tin to
rubber. The Chinese are the most
daring of the spectators. but jap
enese, English, Dutch, Germans and
Portuguese have all had a bold hand
in il. It is impossible not 70 believe. I
however. that with the worlds grow
ing demand for rubber these island
possessions of the various nations I'm
the tropics are becoming OF untold
value. II our American people would I
awake to the tremendous possibilities /
of the Philippines. which are adapted /
10 the rubber tree as fully as in Bra |
NA-f NAANA0 noUAu DC a NUl44CI4uL &C ]
tiVity IN this field OF commerce.
Land of Rlckshaw.
Ever since we landed in Japan, /
with the exception of the time we
spent in the Philippines. we have
been in the land Of the rickshaw I
This little buggy or baby carriage, % /
as some one has dubbed it, is the /
incest. easiest and cheapest way of /
going about that one meets. Pulled /
by the cOolie. whose strength and en- /
durance are remarkable, II carries /
you about at surprising gait, and /
costs practically nothing.
In Japan and China the rickshaWs /
are single" carrying one person; in I
the Malay states they are made for
two. The cost OF rickshaW hire i'm
Japan is 20 cents an hour, I'm China
10 cents an hour. and in the MALAY
countries 20 cents an hour for two
persons. Somehow ! still feel
sense of shame in having a human
being for a horse.
The cafeteria of the Young Women's
Christian Association. 40 South Main.