Letters from foreign lands . ack in thepolite language. Like all tropical people they live largely onrice and fruit. The many kinds of unfamiliarfruit which they sell and eat is a great curi-osity to travellers. The mangosteen isdeemed queen of them all by Europeans andAmericans. When first tasted by a strangerhe is quite certain to smack his lips and callfor more, Its delicious, rich flavored, sweet, 93 bat mildly tart, white pulp is a delight to betested by taste as it cannot be described. The habits of the natives are greatly incontrast with those of other Oriental coun-tries. The largest c
Letters from foreign lands . ack in thepolite language. Like all tropical people they live largely onrice and fruit. The many kinds of unfamiliarfruit which they sell and eat is a great curi-osity to travellers. The mangosteen isdeemed queen of them all by Europeans andAmericans. When first tasted by a strangerhe is quite certain to smack his lips and callfor more, Its delicious, rich flavored, sweet, 93 bat mildly tart, white pulp is a delight to betested by taste as it cannot be described. The habits of the natives are greatly incontrast with those of other Oriental coun-tries. The largest crowds are as quiet andorderly as people coming from a church inAmerica. They are jammed in to over-fullthird-class cars without a murmur and underthe most provoking circumstances one neverhears a cross word from them. In a threeweeks tour we did not see a single beg-gar and were not asked at any time formoney that had not been earned. Some ofthem have acquired the vicious business hab-its of the Turks and Arabs. They have no. Java Women Making Sarongs. fixed price for what they wish to sell and arequite willing to accept ten times the value ofan article, unless the buyer is prepared tolook out for his own interest in the trans-action. In the western part of the island both sexesdress in gay patterns. In the eastern partthere is a less display of brilliant may in part be a matter of is an abundance of indigo raised,and as a consequence garments dyed ofindigo blue are all the style. There is nota great deal of difference between the cos-tumes of the two sexes Both wear a gar-ment called sarong that is usually of silk orcotton, according to the wealth of the wearer. 94 It is composed of a strip of cloth eight feetlong and about four feet wide sewed togetherat the ends but left open at the top and bot-tom. These sarongs are put on by beingdrawn over the head, pleated around thewaist, extending to the ankles, and fastenedby a sash. The upper part of the body
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