A small group of foreigners were highly interested the other morning in what they saw while visiting a temple in the Chinese City. In addition to the devout women who make a practice of daily offering their prayers before the image of their particular deity come those whose white bands betoken mourning, people whose desire is to offer up prayer and incense for the safe passage of some loved one to the world beyond. Amongst this latter class, yesterday, were a diminutive girl and her brother Regular little urchins they were, but they wore their sash of wh and had acquired somewhere the few coppers necessary for the joss sticks and paper sycee. These properly lighted and offered before a very fearsome looking idol, the two stood hand in hand, praying aloud, and, judging from the tone of the young lady's voice, stating the particular matters to which they required spiritual attention is no mistakeable terms, That done, hand in hand they bowed before the altar and made off. It was a very ordinary incident for the numerous other Chinese round. To those three foreigners it was an insight into the humanities of the place and if foreigners as a whole could witness such sights they would more easily realize that the ricsha coolie, the boy, and even the shroff have their troubles in life and that, as humans, they deserve rather more than the careless regard too often accorded them by the foreigner.
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