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Show AVOID SUN OF INDIA. White Men Return From That Coun try With Pallor. The missionary was so pal that his friend exclaimed: "Have you had a spell of sickness, Jake?" ' No. I have been to India," the otuer answered. "India? That sunny, sizzling place? How Is It you are not brown, then?" "It Is plain to ho seen that you don't know what you're talking about." said the missionary. "White people that go to India don't come back brown. They come back paler than ghosts. India fades white people peo-ple out. I thought everyliody knew that." "I didn't know It. Jake. What Is the philosophy of It?" "The philosophy Is that the Indian sun Is so deadly that we whites have to keep out of It. In the sun. In India, In-dia, the thermometer will register 1C0 degrees. Well, with tho thermometer at 1C0 can you Imagine a white man hustling about In the glare? He is ly-lug ly-lug on a dim piazza with an Iced drink beside him and a fan stirring the air above his head, "Yes," said the missionary, "whlto men in India avoid the sun as young girls at home avoid mice. White men return from India as pale as you see me. 'The Indian pallor,' we call It." |