The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-23

w with this poor old chap"
Vuunsul at Shanghai. Of Or. Evanstone.
the surgeon Of the American Mission
Hospital as they stopped in front Of
cot IN Ward No. 2 where Chinese
patient was grooming and struggling
with his uncomfortable bandages- He
seems to be pretty badly damaged
accident, I suppose; was II on board
ship or in one OF the factories ashore?"
Neither, sir" replied the surgeon.
he was done up in street fight not a
block away from the Consulate. The
police rescued him just in time; II
those brutes had had few more whacks
at him, he would have gone TO the
cemetery district. without having TO
stop at the hospital on the way"
what was he. a theft I know they
beat them numerically sometimes when
they catch them in the act. All Asiatics
are A little inclined to favor lynch law
YOU know. and the English Consul told
me last night that in their own system
they believe in Furnishing crime on the
spot where It was committed. So they
will chain up n burglar to the door
most OF the house which he attempted
TO rob and even hang up the head Of
decapitated murderer over the entrance
20 his victims home-a rather srue-
some method Of making the punish
ment effective. eh?"
mo this patient wasn't thief or
criminal Of any kind. from our point
of view. He wasn't even intoxicated.
You viii be very much surprised TO
know that the only offense Of which he
was culltv-and It is n most heinous
one in Chinese eyes-was Of Offering to
his grandfather a cup Of lukewarm
teal"
what! You don't mean TO tell me
that for this triie they fell on the
poor fellow and put him into this con-
dition; I can hardly believe it,"
TT seems almost incredible. doesn't
f.? But it is an actual fact. His father
pitched into him first, screaming.
You've disgraced me, you unfiial
wretch!' Then his uncle and his two
brothers-in law Joined in and threw him
out into the street. A gang OF wharf
coolies passing by arrived just in time
TO vindicate the native code OF honor
by giving him a few extra blows with
their bamboos. and then a foreigner
driving by in his trap summoned the
police and they brought him here"
But please explain to me little
more. Wherein does the awful ofrenBe
Consist NOW 4 NOlAANoo hpAA AAAeS
l,ilxewarn ten or coffee myself. but ]
don't as n rule knock the waiter down
and beat him half to death II the bev-
erage isn't my exact temperature, do II
Hardy. but you see we're living in
another world here and our points OF
view are so radically different that what
may be a very innocent thing IN the
West becomes a very serious thing In
the East and vice versa"
Just at this point the surgeons house
boy appeared with the chit-book and q
visitors card and interrupted the con-
versation: "Mas-si-ter. have got one
piece Chinee man your house side
wantchee speaSee you"
IAN right, ask the gentleman to take
a seat in the parlor and tell him will
be over in a minute; then, turning &c
the Consul and showing him, the card
he added: Here's just the man to tel
Won all about it. Our friend Mr.. Wang
Foo from Hong Kong is here in the
settlement for a few days on business
and 1 aslxed him to drop in for cur
OF tea. You remember him, don't you
He's that wonderful man that solves al
the Chinese mysteries for the police
.when they get beyond their depth"
''Why, certainly. he's the identca
one that exposed that bogus miracle a
tho White Stag Temple last winter
when the naval officers were there?"
Come over and join US at the hous'
and wen put this question of the no
and cold tea up to him. while wer'
slipping a little Of it ourselves"
Mrs. Evanstone received the ntti
party at the surgeons residence ant
after the usual greetings and compli
ments OF the day. she took her place a
the handsome samovar which some o
the Doctors Russian patients had pre-
scented him. and presided as the mos
graceful OF hosteses over the tea-table
"Let me See" she said, turning Z
the native guest, do you take your
with milk and sugar or with lemon
Or possibly your prefer It quite plail
in real Chinese style7"
mo" replied Wang Foo with N
most elegant OF bows, "in all thes
matters 1 pride myself or being striotl
cosmopolitan. According 10 your ow
proverb, when I'm in Rome, I do as th
Romans do, 30 when I am in an Amer
lean lady's home. take my tea as tn
Americans do, 1. e, with milk and susa
and not even with Russian lemon"
Most complimentary and diplomatic
Now--holdins up the sugar-tongs 4
the air shall Il be one lump or two
well. modesty would dictate 'one
but a strict regard for truth impel
me to sayStwo'."