The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

SHOWN In some Indian fame light when
had not been permitted to go out for 5000
years. said: Not for 1000 years. huh,''
and blew at the feeble flame. Puff It's
out now he laughed.
To give a catalog of the vagaries of
the American tourist were an easy mat
ter. But it would be useless. 1 should
be accused of exaggeration-or words.
To himself no man is a tourist. 1t is al
ways the other fellow. above a GER
tain level of culture" as Arnold Bennett
says of his own tour of the United States,
no man who is tourist has the intel
lectual honesty to admit to himself that
he is tourist"
The tendency most baleful both to our
friend, the tourist, and to those OF us
with whom he comes in contact, is that
which Socrates termed taking himself
along with him." You congenal traveller
who is not afraid to learn, has as a dual
a character as DR.. Jekyll. His more ex-
acting self which, were it allowed to go
abroad would demand his enamel bath
even In the Sahara or on the Jungfrau,
he will leave at home. Some time during
the first days of mis- journey he sloughs
the old skin of routine. home standards
and conceit. Unconsciously he puts him
self to school to the world, He fares forth
| not to find new worlds to condemn, but
with the desire to commune. He goes
with heart, intent on travels, not on
arriving.
| Show Supreme Arrogance
rms back home" attitude OF the water
/ front tourist Is closely relater to a Sec
ond system which characterizes this un-
pleasant malady. l mean his supreme
arrogance of country which he chooses
| TO call Patriotism; his lack of respect
for other countries and other people This
is the man who insists on the superla-
tiveness of all things in Gods country
He has made the Japanese to foresee a
white PERIL To him tbs as:art tai ia a
species lower than human the citizens of
other nations but people to be tolerated,
only Yesterday portly gentleman In
immaculate white came to his own in a
way that was most gratifying In order
10 attract his 'riclSisha runners attention
this god of creation. jabbed the coolie
in the back with a fierce thrust of his
suck and shouted at the same time a
polite 'Hey! Things moved quickly. In
a flash the runner dropped the shafts
stepped aside and left the portly party
to 1njure his temper and white fiannels
along a dirty roadway. As he picked
himself up and muttering maledictions.
made his few steps to the hotel 1t seemed
that one man more had learned that in
some points east and west do occasion
49, AfASoe NSSpitc NIT. HlDllng, Il should
IKE, however, to have been seated in the
smoking room of the Manchuria and
heard the same mans story of how he
got the best of an insolent coolie and
by Gaming him to within an inch of his
| life, taught him how to treat a white
man."
another hagrant example of this la ok
OF respect Tor the people among whom
one is travelling l witnessed In the Old
capital of Satsuma. Here found two nj
my Fellow countrymen inspecting a large
statue of the greatest of many great Sat
suma heroes-Saigo Talxamori. AS thew
walked around the rallied enclosure. pc
fore which the most thoughtless Japan-
csc would pause in reverence. they
reached In and with their sticks gave the
figure several good. sounding thumns
by George, it's nothing but wood,n was
their amused and, no doubt, scientific YER
dict.
IL is possible for you to imagine two
Japanese using their sticks over a Wash.
lngton or Nathan Hale in an America
city? And If you can, is it difficult for
suit?
Disregard Local Ways
An amusing instance of tourist con-
tempt for local customs comes from can
ton. A large party started off in chairs
! TO see the Chinese town. AS 1t was very
warm the sightseers insisted that Their
| bearers remove the roofs from the chairs
The coolies refused. With prompt Amer.
lean dispatch our tourist party them.
selves took off the tops and continued
| Their trip. to the amusement of the chat,
coolies and continually increasing cue
Of admirers At last they were brought
to halt in the center Of a large native
! cemetery. As the party stepped forth
they We're watched by quiet, respectful
crowd of Chinese who had come to SEE
the great funeral. Suppose chair ne
have top side,' the visitors learned, "yol
| all same dead man. Canton man he al
ways keep top side
But If these signs have been discourag.
| ing, the third is fatal. Your sentimental
| tourist is the worst of ALL "Old Faithful
In Yellowstone gushes at certain inter.
walls but the sentimental tourist knows
| no interval You may know the type b,
their adjectives. In Japan everything /.
! SO dear, SO cute" 30 quaint" This
phase OF the disease seldom appears in its
aggravated form before the 10th wear ant
then commonly in the female sex. One OF
| the first forms this outbreak takes is thai
| or having ones picture taken in CAV jap
anese dress and seated in a riclisha. I,
is so nice to send to the folks bacl
nome And the Japanese dress is SC
| darling, you know"
! q AcSdAt VI d TOO dHect1OnAte leave
taxing or one Of these dear ladies a stu
Dent acquaintance Of mine suffered fol
weeks. The student-as any Japanes,
STUDENT Will always do-offered his serv
ices gratis as guide to a large marty o.
tourists As the last launch was leav
/ ing Tor the ship this quiet hammered ok
iady leaned over and placed a resound
ing Mss on the youths cheek. "Oh, thanl
| you 80 much You have been a deari :
/ think Maya sakf is perfectIx .r.s
you are simply fine. You have been very
! very Kind to be, and II ever Won coma +,
| america you must look me nm m
Good-by. sweetheart!"
The rulsomeness would have been 6,s
| gushing from younger woman hut !,
TINS case It was only absurd-to the oc
| cidental. To the Japanese n w.. -
| possible. The student stood - ~,
ment blushing from what must h.vs h.,
an excrucfatfng shame and then d,.sn
! peared through a crowd of his issr,r,
fellows. His nickname of ..swaethea -:
stayed with him through his COLES,
/ course.
For Reform of Egotism
Mr.. f. q. A1alo. a Britisher, writing n
i BRUSH tourists. recommended some tim,
ago that the foreign office might ,ss,,,
/ with every passport IAN epitome or 81,
/ quette" for travel in foreign COUNTRIES
and suggested that such an jnnovatio,
would contribute more to the friendsbi,
Of nations than The Hague conference )
/ The writer goes on to say that it mien
be well for the government to Supple
ment its passports with general in
struction that there are other countria,
| besides Great Britain"
| So far as 1t goes this is very good
I That it would be sufficient to reform :
i had case of chronic egotisn, very much
doubt. We could go a step further ant