Show The Englishman in India No matter how long an Englishman lives I in Indiaall his life it may bebe may eat I curry and rice he may call his luncheon tiffin and his whisky and soda a Ipeg but his hours are the hours he learned in England and he never embraces a really Indian custom The natives are never his own people nor does he ever support the idea of their becoming so A man from Dresden said to me plaintively once The English come and settle in Dresden and then call the inhabitants foreigners And so it is in India it is always the inhabitants inhabi-tants who are outsiders I Me learn Hin idustani said a young subaltern in the AngloIndian army Why dont the brutes learn English 1 This principle bulldog as it sounds in theory is what makes life so pleasant to the visitor in India For soiled sweetmeats made of baa butter and a steady diet of grain and the milk of the I buffalo are not appetizing to an imported palate and travelers are very glad to enjoy the solid comforts of good English living in a country where the cooking has a distinctly dis-tinctly heathen flavor If you mnst travel and must live abroad go where your own countrymen do not congregate and where life will present a new aspect without ose starvation or fear of death from lack of sanitary measures If you think you know England go to India and acknowledge your mistake AngloIndia is England multiplied multi-plied by ten and raised to the third power And the Englishman in India is the most hospitable creature on the face of this inhospitable in-hospitable earth Chicago Herald |