To the Editor of the Norta-Cama Day News."
Si,—I congratulate "G.N." on having escaped the celestial spitter for so long. My own experience has been leas fortunate. Some few] years ago I was lucky enough to catch the gentleman who had spat on my boot. I held him and wiped amy boot on his clothes, About one year ago another cele-still spitter spat on my clothes from a trailer as I was waiting for acor. Couldn't get Aim.
This morning I left my carriage standing on the Sungkiang Road and when I returned found the cushion decorated with the efforts of a Chinese in the upper room of the house outside which my carriage waited. I wiped the cushion on his coat. It would be interesting to test the attitude of the Mix: ed Court on this question, A favourite amusement, especially among the mafoo class, appears to be to spit on the back of a foreign dog. I once found my pointer liberally decorated in this manner and had to have him scrubbed down with water and a broom.
Some poor chaps must spit on account of catarrh or bad chests, but there is always the gutter for them. Why not an anti-spitting league? Prosecutions and smart sentences by the Mixed Court would do a lot towards stopping this disgusting Practice.
Tam, ete, Shanghai, Dec. 13. fo the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Dairy News, Stm—As a constant reader of your daily publication, I have been considerably amused in rpadigg the various otters appearing in your correspondence columns ° regarding the complaint against my fellow citizens expectorating in the public streets.
Some of your correspondents advocate the boxing of the ears" as sound remedy against this alleged evil. Now, being very grateful to several Western nations for my education. I would suggest that those foreigners who desire to teach my fellow citizens good manners, should first try boxing the ears of their own nationals who smoke bad tobacco in the tramcars, and blow the offensive smoke into their mothers' and sisters' faces, When this turns out successful, I am—perfectly confident that my fellow citizens would aot object to being taught Western manners, Otherwise it would certainly not be fair to box a poor coolie's ears for an offence which he commits unwittingly through
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