ABSTRACT
In all the walks of life the Chinese are widely different from, often exactly antithetical to us. The Chinese are always very social, but at the same time conservative and non-committal. In introducing people in China, the surname is always given first, as indeed in all their nomenclature. When one Chinese meets another on the street they stop at a respectful distance from each other, and each makes a profound bow and respectfully shakes his own hands. White is the colour used by the Chinese in mourning costume, instead of black. Deafness and dumbness are less common than baldness and blindness, perhaps because there is neither disease nor style to produce them. Headache is very prevalent, but for this they have a remedy, or what they allege to be one. Most of the people are shaven by peripatetic barbers; they offer to shave their patrons upon the street, or in their own homes.
