The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1919-07-10

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to another good sized roll OF bills ol
the city to which the other was going
The other offered to pay, but he re
piled, "Never mind, the whole roll II
worth only 40 cents" There are dol
lars, 20c pieces. dimes and coppers
There are also cash. small coin with
hole in the center, ten to a copper
At the big stores you count the same
rs you would in America. But the
different coins vary somewhat in rela'
tive value. At a money changers you
can get II coppers for dime, but il
you wish to buy dime you must pay
IL coppers. For silver dollar you
can get IL 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 wholesale and
large business taels are used. The
value is based on silver and the ratio
with dollars varies; now 1t is worth
about $1.37. The tael is also divided
into one hundred parts called cents,
but there are no coins; there are, how
ever, bills. You have to look at each
bill to see whether it Is dollars or
taels; you can have your bank account
in either one or in both. Imagine try
ing to keep books? On every block
there are money changers who make q
small commission on these exchanges
Of money.
/ should have told you about our
milk problem in Burma. They have a
kind Of cow which gives about pint
of milk. This is sold from door to
door by dude-wallows, and in pals.
They always put a handful Of grass or
straw or anything that they can pick
up, into the pail to prevent it from
splashing. Then every native through
whose hands it passes takes q 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 every
thing we could think of. We thought
once that we had settled the question
while paying a large price to the larg-
est milk industry in the city. We
found that we were getting buffalo
milk, diluted with three parts of
water and treated with ample amounts
Of formaldehyde. One missionary
bought his own COW, bought his own
pasture, built bamboo house on it
and hired a durwan to live there and
watch it. Then he made another ser
want bring the cow up TO the house,
wash it, and milk it in his presence.
Did he succeed? Well, he learned
after a time that the durwan was let
ting out the privilege of milking the
COW for so much per night.
Off the Coast of the Aleutian Islands,
January 10, 1919.
What change. ! began this letter
a degree and one-half from the
equator. Now | am continuing 1t of
the coast of Alaska, in January, but
we are not suffering from the cold; In
fact we are having very good voy-
age.
But this is an English boat, and 1t
is very hard for us Yankees to appre-
ciate the English. 1t is lots easier to
sympathize with the Chinese or Hin
docs. remember one of the mission
aries employed native workman TO
repair a leaky roof. The workman
spent all day at the job and as a rain
the next day resulted in no leaks, he
was paid. About the same time the
missionary missed several pals and
buckets. A heavy rain few days
later resulted in streams of water IN
the living rooms. Investigation dis
covered the fact that no hole in the
roof had been repaired but that a
bucket had been placed under every
large hole and that little strips OF
bamboo had been adjusted to guide
the water from the small holes into
the same buckets. This worked ad-
mirably until the buckets were full.
And on this boat the steam pipes
leak in many places, and instead OF
repairing them the Englishman has
hung little buckets below each leak.
And this brings up the whole question
Of the English. We like them, they
have done great deal for the Orient.
As a rule they are inclined to dislike
US. We are coarse, commercial and
unrefned; we even think more Of the
ability that a man may possess than
of who his father was, and we do not