ABSTRACT
The European is a familiar figure in all the populous parts of Malaya. There is a risk to both sides in the increasing familiarity with Europeans; and the various measures taken, by prescribing a certain standard of living and so on, to maintain the dignity of the race that has saved the country are advisable and legitimate. The impression of Europeans as a strange, almost supernatural race was bound to disappear. It is good that the natives can see representatives of different classes and occupations carrying on their various labours, and that that civilizing influence which is stronger than any precepts should operate from many instead of few. The ordinary dress of white women, except, perhaps, those in the missions, reveals the outlines of the female form in a way which appears shameful to Asiatic beholders, except the minority who have become habituated to European eccentricities.
