Peeps into China . CHAPTER XX, THE MISSIONARY IN CHINESE COSTUME,. there is reason for a Chinamanthe American costume whenAmerica, there is more reasonAmerican to adopt the Chinese to adopt infor ancostume living when living in China, And yet we will allow excep-tions. By the careful consideration of circumstances,and the due comparison of profit and loss, there isreason against adopting the Chinese costume in oneof the ports. For one foreigner to wear the Chinesedress while all his foreign associates, not only in theMission circle but in business, wear the foreign dress,is to add oddity to od
Peeps into China . CHAPTER XX, THE MISSIONARY IN CHINESE COSTUME,. there is reason for a Chinamanthe American costume whenAmerica, there is more reasonAmerican to adopt the Chinese to adopt infor ancostume living when living in China, And yet we will allow excep-tions. By the careful consideration of circumstances,and the due comparison of profit and loss, there isreason against adopting the Chinese costume in oneof the ports. For one foreigner to wear the Chinesedress while all his foreign associates, not only in theMission circle but in business, wear the foreign dress,is to add oddity to oddity. Even the Chinese areforced to disapprove, unless the case be a visitorrather than a permanent resident. We speak, however, of the interior. What is fittingat a port may not be equally fitting in the far distantparts of China, where foreign power and gunpowdersupremacy are a fable or a dream. Eeason in one setof circumstances may turn to lunacy in Truth the same the world over/ is no doubt anaxiom; but, for adaptation to environment, truth isever
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