ABSTRACT

The author was amused when he first met a Chinese acquaintance to remember that instead of raising his hat and shaking his hand, he must, in order to be quite proper, keep his hat on and shake his own hand. When they write their name they use their family name first as it should be, being the more important and the given name last. Chinese women wear her thimble between the first and second joint of her second finger instead of on the end of her finger as our women do. The author have known gentlemen, earls, take off one garment after the other while dining, on the pretence that it was too warm, when in reality it was, or seemed to be, only to show what rich garments they had on. In European stores they put their goods in the front window, in China; they lock them up in cubby hole in the back end of the shop.