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Show PAYING FOR THE HONOR. In China It Costo to Put on Airs of Iin-portunco. Iin-portunco. In China it h believed that people tiliould pay According to their means. The one barber in Peking- who uwlcr-ntands uwlcr-ntands the foreign mode of hair-dressing charges a foreign miubster 50 cents, a secretary of legation 25 cents, and nn unofficial foreigner 10 cents. Natives pay about half n cent for the some service. serv-ice. So bays Mr. Ilolcombc.in his book, ' "Tho Real Chinaman," and he-adds this bit of personal experience: In passing through Japau I once had occasion to employ. a Chinese chiropodist chiropo-dist residing there. His charges, bo he declared, were five contfi to his fellow-Chinese, fellow-Chinese, 10 emits to nn ordinary Japanese, Japan-ese, and 50 cents to nil other foreigners. In the course of ithocorover&o tion, while he wan at work, he said : "I hear that our Chinese minister came to this hotel to-day. Do you know whom he came to sec?" "Oh, yes," said I, "lie came to call on me." "Then you must bo an official," eaid the Chinaman. I modestly admitted such to be the fact, nnd the conversation drifted to other subjects. When .the man's labors wero concluded ho demanded n dollar, in the face of his own statement that his regular charge to all foreignern, excepting ex-cepting Jnpanes, was 50 cents; and he enforced IiIh claim by this argument: "Sposey that. China minister come see you, you b'long all eanio h0. You b'long came lie, you makey pay one dollar dol-lar all same. That b'long ploper." Youth's Companion. |