The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-06-14

a money changers you can get eleven
coppers for a dime, but II you wish
to buy a dime you must pay twelve
coppers. For silver dollar you can
get eleven dimes and six coppers,
while If you wish to buy silver dol |
lar ii costs you twelve dimes. These
ratios vary from day to day In
Shanghai there is the dollar and
cents system which Is used for all
small and retail business. For whole
sale and large business taels are
used. The value is based on silver
and the ration with dollars varies,
now II is worth about Sl.57. The
tael is also divided into one hundred
parts called cents. but there are no
coins. There are however bills. You
have to look at each bill to see whet-
her It is dollars or taels. You can
have your bank account in either one
or in both. Imagine trying to keep
books? On every block there are
money changers who make small
commission on these exchanges OF
money.
should have told you about our
milk problem in Burma. They have
kind of COW which gives about a
pint OF milk. This is sold from door
to door by dude-wallows, and in
pals. They always put handful Of
grass or straw or anything that they
can pick up into the pail to prevent
1t from splashing. Then every native
through whose hands 1t passes takes
drink and supplies the amount with
water. You cannot stop it. Some
have tried to keep their own COW.
but the man who milks it takes his
share and the cook does The same.
We tried everything we could think
of. We thought once that we had
settled the question while paying
large price to the largest milk in
dustry in the city. We found we
were getting buffalo milk, diluted
with three parts Of water and treated
with ample amounts OF Tornado
hyde. One missionary bought his
lk; 49,.
own COW. bought his own pasture,
built bamboo house on it and hired
durwan to live there and watch II.
Then he made another servant bring
the cow up to the house, wash 1t, and
milk 1t in his presence. Did he sue
coed? Well he learned after a time
that the durwan was letting out the
!, privilege Of milking the COW for SO
much per night
OF the coast OF the Aleutian
Islands, January 10, 1919.
What a change. began this letter
/ degree and one half from the equa-
tor, now am continuing 1t off the
, coast OF Alaska, in January, but we
are not suffering from the cold. in
fact we are having very good yoy-
age.
But this is an English boat, and II
, is very hard for us Yankees to appre
ciate the English. It is lots easier
!, to synpathise With the Chinese or
Hindoos. | remember one OF the
. missionaries employed native work
| man to repair a leaky roof. The
workman spent all day at the job and
/. as a rain the next day resulted in nc
|; leaks. he was paid. About the same
, time the missionary missed several
I. lpails and buckets. a heavy rain o
few days later resulted in streams OF
|, water In the living rooms. lnvesti
2 cation discovered the fact that M
. hole in the roof had been repaired
[ but that bucket had been placed un
der overv large hole and that littl,
D strips o, bamboo had been adjusted
I to guide the water from tho small
holes into the game buckets. This
: worked admirably until ;ne buckets
We're full. And on this boat the ssean
r pipes leak IN many places. and IN
!. stead Of repairing them the English
n man had hung little buckets below
1 each leaf. ST
4 And this brings up tho Who'll,
. question CT the English. We Xix,
4 them, they have done great deal fo,
4 the Orient As a rule they are in
Q clined to dislike us. we are coarse
b comercial and unrefined. We ever
!. think more o. tho ability that e maj
a may possess than of who his fathe
. was. and We do not hesitate to worl
II with our hands The polite Englisl
y business hours in Burma are from l
J a. m. to . D. m. Ordinarily Chot
e llabara Qit.le breakfast Is served 4
o bed, the morning hours are spon
in ease and pejamas. breakfast prof.
d er about nine thirty to ten, tiffin /
y the Office NJ one. tea at three-thirty I
n four.thir.y, and dinner late.
n The Englishman lounges around
d his paiamas: ontertains his wife's cal
N ers or whoever II may be in tn
,e morning. but Is shocked II an Amer
"a can takes off his coat at his des
m later in the day. lie Is polite to tn
a. T and gentleman to the bone. II
&. is sympathetic TO us poor American
II from the edge of the world. A tailC
II objected strenuously to putting hi
,e pockets In trousers but at least col
n scented with the remark. "Ohl | forge
"A that you Americans still live wher
le you have to carry pistols rea
ie an editorial in an English Magazn
10 which spoke OF the parts OF Amerlc
8. where English was still spoken A
70 English doctor questioned my goin
id to America. as should not so to
AZ place where there was not patholi
X. gical laboratory. The Englishman
Sc little inclined to say with the Or
ie entail and with a few Americans, 81
x II has been done this way for year
al 1t is proved to be the best way
In II may surprise some OF you [
Id know that English law in India SIT
D. permits q man to collect interest Q
the rate OF 10 per cent per month q
he even higher and sends the poor debtC
- IN inii AZ no cannnt nay A. fourl