Show OUTSIDE barbarians THE VIE VIEWS WS OF A MANDARIN ON SOCIETY the Mali maii mandarin darin in id Burlin games troupe who writes wiltes up the mat mai manners iners and add customs of the various countries for the chinese archives has given the paris correspondent of the london post a translation of his last letter ietter in it he speaks of the table tabie habits of the paris barbarians we have dined 11 he says I 1 at their tables where the stomach is iq expected to receive with pleasure some thirty different offord of food and perhaps ten different liquids the french and other foreigners they feel very uncomfortable uncomfortably and rel ral require much medicine drugs as mayab may bb seen by the many chemists shop copil of this city they have the same capac capacity liy as s our pigs had you been there the other night and observed observe d how these wese people rudely scrambled for the food goodat at the supper table when we gave our fete they put their hands violent lyon the dishes and disputed with each other roughly 31 in telling about ba burling alink ames ball he writes ah if yo u had been seen the women at our ball bali aill they came half undressed that ia is to say the upper part of the body was wholly exposed et but they are jealous of showing fk their feet and seem to haye hayea a desire to hide the floor also as each woman drags about with her a long along robe on which it if ia Is not etiquette to place your shoe their eyes are painted d round not all of them and they use coloring for the lips and pearl powder for various exposed sections of the frame they purchase the hair of the dead and artists work it into various designs then the women put it on their heads with flow ers an d ye are not noi a dirty people ahe high caste are allowed every license at our fete they were clasped the men chef they knew not and danced with painful vigor v gor for etwas very hot among the latest discoveries in the a limal animal I 1 kingdom in missouri are feathered turtles c |