| Show CAMBODIA IN EUROPE europe Is richer for the visit of kin king of cambodia for all the extraordinary tra ordinary ever witnessed at marseilles few can ever have baa 0 exceeded that of the eastern monarch his wives dancing girls and retinue when v hen they landed yesterday east and west barbarism and refinement are wonderfully mixed in them their wealth in jewels seems to exceed the dreams of avarice and the princesses are not lacking in elegance of deportment but at the same time the king hing wears an oia felt hat and a nondescript frock coat and the clothing of his suite is to say the least of it somewhat scanty when the party came ashore tho the quick witted french were thrown into hysterical laughter by the spectacle of incongruity much as an athenian C crowd might have bay I 1 e laughed at a party of degroo ce gros s from north Afric africa ti who would have bave thought that this prosaic world contained such marvels of the barbarous pictures picturesque quo after all color and novelty haye have not quite vanished frondi life these are the thoughts which will wall pass through the minds of europeans when they see the cambodians Cambodia ns but it if is not at leist least possible 0 ible that very mry similar ones will pass jass through the minds of the e cambo adans when they see ace the europeans to parody the Shakes phrase thero there Is nothing wonderful or novel in the world but thinking makes it so two thousand years hence our pres ent civilization may conceivably appear as aa incongruous and eavon Q derx as barbarous bai barous to our refined posterity as king and his friends seem to us today civilization is a matter of degree and that which we call the highest and the most rnoda Is 19 simply our own nor is the passage from one form of civilization to another such a long step as wo we sometimes imagine plant the refined townsman in a backwoods 1 mans mana camp and he loses the usage of society with an case care and rapidity j which startles himself and as to the contrary japan has shown that it is almost as easy for the east E it st to adopt our civilization as for king to put a frock coit above his ls |
