Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-01-10
ORIENTAL Guile.
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Graft In the Far East Surpasses
That of This Country.
ONE TRAVELLERS EXPERIENCE
In Japan Native Guide Receives Com
mission on Whatever You Purchase.
Indian Servants Even Exact Rake
off From Your Washerwoman.

mission on Whatever You Purchase.
Indian Servants Even Exact Rake
off From Your Washerwoman.
JAY Singleton Pirkins. a merchant Of
Chicago. who recently completed Il nine $
months trip around tile world, said
that he was panied by the guile he dis. ;
covered in the orientals i'm the far aud
near east This was Il characteristic,
he said. of those he encountered from
the time he landed at Yokohama until !,
he left the island of Malta, in the Med
iterrancan. :.
''In Japan the American tourist is !.
taken in charge by smooth tongued /
guide" said Mr.. Pilkins. "who receives /
from 80 to 100 per; cent commission |
from every store where purchases are J
made. The goods sold are mostly iui- ;
tation. For instance. the native silk
has beautiful sheen, but il does not
wear one-eighth as long as that made :
by the Chinese. | paid - cents for Il
small silver collar button in one of the
largest stores in the Benton Dori in ;
Yokohama. I discovered later that It .
was made of thin layer OF silver
filled with clay. In China the stranger :
fares better.as the merchants are hon .
est and have, Sope; price unless the
hotel guide goes along to make thepur-
chase. Then his commission is added
to the cost of the article. & :
THE bar of the Shanghai club has /:
some twenty Chinese bartendcrs, who
are kept busy serving cocktails for two
hours. from IL O'Clock in the morning
until / o'clock in ,thesafternoon, when
'tiffin.' as lunch is called in the east. u :
served. Americans and Englishmen liT-
ing in Shanghai are so. hospitlble that
a stranger who'is introduced by one of
the members to the,cocktail circle Soon
loses consciousness, off what is going on
about him and never recovers full pos
session of himself until he reTives i'll
his berth ON the steamer. and hears the
ships surgeon exclaim: TIIe'll do now.
steward. II think, Give him Il little beef
tea at eight bells.,t
1.-THE most guileful OF all orientals.
are the Cingalese who come aboard the
ship at Colombo. They have classic
features. and their back hair is tiedSn {,
a knot with Gayly decorated combs "
stuck through it. These men, who sell "
wonderful stones of all coorS, are soft,
of tongue and have limpid eyes which
well with tears when traveller sug-'
sests that possibly their stones are not
genuine.
'''Take them with YOU, Sahib. to}New:
York and if the ieweler of your noble
ness says they are good then send the
rupees to your humble slave, Tippooi
Koram,' the vender Of precious stoIesI
will say. This usually overcomes the
hesitation of the most skeptical and
the stones are purchased on tile spot.
in India you must employ Il native
servant and from the tailor who sup,
plies your white clothes to thc poor.
'dobey wallah. the wdslcrlhan, ev.,
cry one who serves you must pay him.
tribute At Jaipur, the capital Of,
Rajputana, ] had a room in the COM,
pound of the hotel which was run by,
q native In q wooden4 cart close to'
my room was IA tiger that had been,
caught earlier in the evening II few,
miles away His roarS and struggles
to escape in the night were thrilling to
those who were kept awake by his pro-,
tests. \ bamboo door without a catch
separated me from the compound where's
the tiger was imprisoned, but my, na"
tive servant, Ramaiam, assured mo-
that Raiput tigers never arc white
meat ms it made their hair come out.
"At Delhi, where we arrived after
heavy rains. | had a room in the big
compound of the hotel. It was neces-
sary to ascend stone staircase 10 get
to if. When | Went to bed native acs
companied me. carrying a torch, and
another went ahead, playing a reed in.
strument. which had most mournful
sound | noticed that the stone steps
were covered with bristly cohair mat,
ting. Ramajam fold me that this WA
to keep the pythons and cobras from
coming up 10 the rooms, TO get warm,
as they suffered from cold after the:
rains. / thanked him and spent the.
hours till daybreak with pistol and
club handy, wondering what made mo,
come to India instead Of taking ,Kip-s
ling's word for it,
''In" Egypt I succumbed to the wies!s
of the dragoman, who Went to great,
pains, we found out afterward. TO wallci
out into the desert late at night and:
bury coins for us to find next day"
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