"FOREIGN DEVILS."

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5059, 1 December 1926, Page 2

"FOREIGN DEVILS."

A S THE CHINESE SEE US.

SUMMING UP THE EUROPEAN. It isi easy enough to get a European idea of the Chinese and their .ways, but the Chinese idea of the European is not readily accessible. According to the magazine “China’s Millions,” the following is a translation of a Chinese gentleman’s lettei- to his 'family: “You cannot civilise these foreign devils. They <will live for weeks and months: without touching a mouthful of rice, but they eat the flesh o’f bullocks and sheep in enormous quantities. That is why they smell so badly ; they smell like the sheep themselves. Every day they take a bath to rid themselves of their disagreeable odours, but they do not succeed. Nor do they’ eat' theii’ meal cooked in' small pieces. It is carried into the room in large chunks, often half-raw, and. they cut and. slash and tear it apart. It makep, a civilised being perfectly nervous. One fancies himself in the presence of swordswallowers. They even sit at' the same table with women, and the latter are served first, reversing the order of nature;”