Blue waters and green and the Far East today . t and most congested, land is almost unpurchas-able. Streets and wide spaces, public gardens andbreathing-places cost too much. Rents are enor-mous, and must be subdivided to the last limit, by pil-ing up. So, as I have said, you have never seen China Townin America, because there they move into streets thatwe have laid out, houses we have built. You dontget the Chinese atmosphere. That escapes, whilehere it is carefully retained so that you get all of it,mostly through the olfactories. The foreign part ofShanghai is beautiful. It flows down both
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . t and most congested, land is almost unpurchas-able. Streets and wide spaces, public gardens andbreathing-places cost too much. Rents are enor-mous, and must be subdivided to the last limit, by pil-ing up. So, as I have said, you have never seen China Townin America, because there they move into streets thatwe have laid out, houses we have built. You dontget the Chinese atmosphere. That escapes, whilehere it is carefully retained so that you get all of it,mostly through the olfactories. The foreign part ofShanghai is beautiful. It flows down both sides ofthe Whangpoo, which is crossed by numerous bridges,splendidly built, with structures that would be acredit to any city in the world. Here we struck friends. sister has been outhere for sixteen years and her husband has been heretwenty-eight years, one of the oldest residents amongthe foreigners. I find that the longer foreigners havelived here the more pro-Chinese they are. Theyseem to stand acquaintance. Our people get used [182]. SHANGHAI. to them, like their ways, swear by them. The Doc-tor has a Number One Boy that has been with himfor twelve years, who runs the whole house. By theway, there are no head waiters in this goes by number. Number One Boyruns the dining-room. There is Number One Hallboy, porter, and so on. They even carry it intobusiness. I heard one man speak of another as hav-ing been his Number Two for three years. Thosewho have been here long insensibly fall into all use it. For instance, I heard one English-man ask another, What fashion pidgin blong thatchop dollar face man? That sentence requiresrather a long explanation. Pidgin is as nearbusiness as the Chino can pronounce it. Whenthe foreigners came here, they were not allowed toland; they dealt over the side of the ship. The for-eigner could not learn Chinese, and the Chinese showedtheir adaptability by inventing Pidgin English; thatis, Business English. It is t
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