Blue waters and green and the Far East today . see it again. Iwould not live here for the mines of Golconda. Butin Japan I feel at home. The wide streets, the gar-dens and flowers, the kindly smiling faces, the ex-quisite courtesy from high and low, the variety andmultiform charm of that people, draw me are not as honest as the Chinese, and presentlyI shall give you a reason for that; and it is only tem-porary, born of peculiar conditions, it is not racial,but I feel as though I could live and die with them andbe content. I look forward to seeing them again as one looksforwar
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . see it again. Iwould not live here for the mines of Golconda. Butin Japan I feel at home. The wide streets, the gar-dens and flowers, the kindly smiling faces, the ex-quisite courtesy from high and low, the variety andmultiform charm of that people, draw me are not as honest as the Chinese, and presentlyI shall give you a reason for that; and it is only tem-porary, born of peculiar conditions, it is not racial,but I feel as though I could live and die with them andbe content. I look forward to seeing them again as one looksforward to some delightful entertainment. Yester-day I saw a Japanese woman on the streets totteringalong in her narrow kimono, her clogs and her whitestockings, and I could not forbear an ohayo to twinkled into a smile and made me her funnyJapanese bow, and I felt as if I were home again. Before I leave China, however, I want to say some-thing about the character of this most strange peo-ple as I have observed them, studied them, and [200]. SHANGHAI. learned of them from men who have spent the mostof their lives here. To the Occidental they are abundle of contradictions. They are the most honest,industrious, and most temperate people in the believe I mentioned that in Canton, a city of twomillion people, there is not a drinking-place, a saloon,a grog-shop, or a drug-store with a back room, or anyplace where anything intoxicating can be is true of old Shanghai, true of the native partof Hong Kong, Macao, and Hankow. The higherclasses drink, very moderately, a rice wine, a kind ofbrandy that they make, and in the coast townsEuropean drinks, but always in moderation. Thelower and middle classes drink not at all, except drunken Chinaman would be as much of a curiosityas a Chinaman with two heads. There is no need oftemperance societies here. They are very charitable, giving freely of theirmeans to relieve the poverty and distress of theirpoorer countr
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