AS OTHERS SEE US | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 26, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 21.

AS OTHERS SEE US.

A CHINAMAN living near Shanghai has been interviewed by the Frankfurter Zeitung, and, among other things, says concerning the “barbarian” Europeans: “They certainly do not know how to amuse themselves. You never see them enjoy themselves by sitting quietly upon their ancestors’ graves. They jump around and kick balls as if they were paid to do it. Again you will find them making long tramps into the country; but that is probably a religious duty, for when they tramp, they wave sticks in the air, nobody knows why. They have no sense of dignity; for they may be found walking with women. They even sit down at the same table with women, and the latter are served first. Yet the women are to be pitied, too. On festive occasions they are compelled to appear almost naked before every man who likes to look at them, and they are dragged around a room to the accompaniment of the most hellish music.”