The folly of addressing an Asiatic in a sort of baby-talk was condemned by aMr H. G. Blackie, speaking at Mornington the other day, and it is difficult to see why the person from' foreign parts should comprehend English any better for its being put to him in a sort of nursery jargon. The lecturer, in order to collect funds for the -Indian famine sufferers, was lecturing in Victoria. To serve his end.n he paraded the streets garbed as a rajah, with his face blackened with burned cork. A frior.d introduced him to all and sundry as "a gentleman from India." They one and all asked him such questions as, "You talkee talkee English," etc, to which he solemnly replied, "Hum Bengali Admi." They attended his lecture in force, and were tremendously astonished when he removed his turban and talked London English for half an hour.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9033, 21 January 1908, Page 5
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