Show PAYING FOR THE HONOR in china it costa to put on alra of importance in china it is believed that people should pay according to their means the one barber in peking who understands the foreign mode of hair dress ing charges a foreign minis acer 50 cents a secretary f legation 25 cents and an unofficial foreigner 10 cents natives pay about half a cent for the same service so says sir Holcom bein his book the real chinaman and ho adds this bit of personal experience in passing through japan I 1 once had occasion to employ a chinese chiropodist residing there his charges so he declared were five cents to his fellow chinese 10 cents to an ordinary japanese and 50 cents to all other foreigners in the course of ithe conversation while he was at work he said 1 I hear that our chinese minister came to this hotel today to day do you know whom he came to see oh yes said I 1 he came to call on me than you must be an official said the chinaman I 1 modestly admitted such to be the fact and the conversation drifted to other subjects when the mans labors were concluded he demanded a dollar in the face of his own statement that his regular charge to all foreigners excepting japanese was 50 cents and he enforced his claim by this argument that china minister come see you you blong all same he you blong same he you makey pay one dollar all same that blong cloper youths companion |