Ay interview wits H.R.H. tite Siamese Misistex or Foreion Arvains.
(By arrangement with the writer.)
In Siam, as elsewhere, the old things are passing away. But the change does not consist, like the changes of most other Oriental countries, simply in the adoption one by one of European methods and ideas, Siam is developing @ la Siamoise—what she is to-day and what she hopes to become to-morrow are to no small extent the evolution of what she was ages before steamships and tramways and telephones and missionaries wore. heard of The Buropean com. munity in Bangkok are the last to perceive this, but as I have explained elsewhere, their occupations and interests do not often lead them into paths where this change is conspicuous. Of course European influence is evident at every step of the evolution, but 80 is Siamese. There is nothing Japan for example, in the new Japanese Constit tion; beret hocyed that is rear Sudionce-hall of Bangkok is architect wins organisation of Siam. The turally half European and
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