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Show CHINESE PECULIARITira. In giving his opinion of China, Capt Faulkner of the artillery corps, epitomised epito-mised the Chinese characteristics so cleverly that some of his listeners copied cop-ied down his words. "Chlnay said CJapt. Faulkner, "Is a country where the roses have no fra-granoe fra-granoe and the women no pettlooats; where the laborer has no Sunday and the magistrate no sense of honor; where the roads bear no vehicles and the ships no keels; where old men fly kites and the needle points to the south: where the place of honor is on the left band and the seat of Intellect In the stomach, where to take off your hat is an Insolent Inso-lent gesture and to wear white garments gar-ments is to be In mourning; a country which has a literature without an alphabet al-phabet and. a language without a grammar." |