Arizona republican., 1921-02-07

neonle come from or whither they go II know not but they certainly Keep moving One sees many Chinese pro-
 sessions with bands-celebrating fu nerals. weddings, births, etc. I saw one band in gay colored uniforms lead-
 ing a bride off to the altar, and the same day and in the same makeup saw them carting a corpse off to the cemetery. (Likely as not playing the same tune for all could tell about it.)
 aEverything here, except the streets, is very dirty, the Hindus being dirtier and poorer than all the rest have seen the Hindu stevedores digging into
 big troughs of rice with their bare hands and eating as if half starved. The Hindu laborer gets only six or eight annas a day, and as it takes six teen annas to make rupee and four rupees to make a dollar, you can see that he has a very few cents day on which to support his family and send his children to boarding school.
 (Which reminds me that I saw Hindu school in session on the veranda of a temple. There were twenty small bows and two whislSered Schoolmasters with sticks-all sitting on the floor
 with legs folded beneath them. Each student had his book before him in a little rack like a buck saw. The mas ters were hearing recitations from one ! at a time. meanwhile chewing beetle nut and splitting in cannot a cuspi- | dor-which stood before them. While 1 recitations were going on the rest of | the students read aloud and swayed to and fro in unison as they read
 "A Chinese school which I saw was l different It had lady teachers and ] was indoors, with tables ans benches i But while one student recited the rest
 read aloud in Chinese, all reading
 something different. and with faces 1 turned in every direction. Several of them were sitting off in corners
 "In Saigon there were steps leading down into the dirty river which sunk beyond description. Yet at all hours of the day and night goes continual l stream of cooiies-botl Hindu and 1 Malay-into the water to bathe. Some
 are modest enough in the day time to l wait until they reach the water before disrob!ng, but most of them take off | their clothing on the bulkhead and l walk down. And our ship was only I four feet away. At a Japanese hotel in Penang it was necessary for us to remove our shoes at the main door, where sandals were furnished. and when we came to l our private room we had to remove the sandals. Within was a table a foot lhigh. several cushions, and a clean car pet of mating. Japanese prints
 adorned the walls and the front of the room was wide open As in Singa- pore, the food was cooked by a woman at the table over a charcoal stove while another woman famed us. The food was served in bowls into which 2
 raw egg had first been brolxen-sup-
 posed to cool the food before you ate
 it. Tried to take a picture of the
 woman who famed us but she ran
 and hid, returning later on and slap
 ping me over the back for my pre- sumption.
 ssTha straat carS arc j,,nl-,, o,a, Q f fairs and instead of having the street
 names on them. are besmeared witt
 huge ads like 'Nestyles' Food .Bish- ops Cocoa etc. Pears soap sign,
 remind one continually of being unde
 the British flag. White people never
 use the street cars, not even in Manila
 The ginricksha men sure take ths
 Americans for 'sapheads' Their fare. , are regulated by the police and fixet
 at 56 cents per hour (2o cents Ameri , can). You can make all the bargain. you want before starting out. but n the end the man will put up terribl tsquak. I have paid them some times more than twice what l owed only to be called a cheap skate in fort, , different kinds of Malay. They speal
 no English whatever. but start off witt No! No. Nol' and keep after yo, . till a policeman bounces one off thei 5 heads. They are sure afraid of cor . and the cops are sure afraid of a whit
 man-which makes it a paradise along v side of San Francisco
 n We anchored in the mouth of tn e Changes for six hours waiting for tn a pilot while he meandered among tn s other boats at rest. Finally his paIa a efal steam yacht headed our way an t he came aboard in dory with te :. loarsmen and two boa atswains-aII i n uniform. He brought along a Hind d servant. three trunks and three SC e nags. and immediately went off { 6 sleep, at 2:3o a. m. We reach Cal p cutta in nine hours from now. It i
 ! quite cool"