We are aceastomad to: think that the Chiesa lay great stress out questions of deportment that, aes
appreciation of thingy "which we Fealy "uso and sow fomidor important They th just the "sine of foreigners, who live in China
proper time and. place, they thi vel tar wht fo t, t casey over fulilities and harborously ignorant about the eavential amon ties of life. Some of this min. understanding between the. people fameng whom we live and ourselves {s unavoidable, but n great, deal of also is easly socaped. 'This suggested to us ly newly atvived Deople from the interior who remark tu the crude manners. "of Ohinewe employees in Shanghai shape.. They not have to study the situation very" long' before they discover however, that this apparent dis. courtesy la a natural reaction to tha bad behaviour of "the. foreign patrons in the shops in which they habitually do their buying. Courtesy jo a good "hi oft" Chinese shopkeeper's stock in trade and he would never abandon it while he thought that hie customers put any value in it, Ho expects some ya. Ponse to his politeness, however, td' when he "finds. that the fort gener does not respond he thinks isa waste of effort and adopt what ho imagines & the foreign syle of bing Dusiness, "There is no doubt frat ho then Deconts rather" objec: tionable. The way to prove that this is true ie tp make a purchase
use and' then, while, negotiate 4 she that foreigners de nat whatever the deal happens to be show the ordinary good-natured of. fort to be polite to the proprietor oF his assistants no ome would show in London, Paris, or San Francie, fox as say It wi be dlcovered at once that' without any elaborate Knowledge of Chincee"eoremanial ways, the Seelination to\show decent. spirit Tubrieates human in ter course" as, readily' in Shanghai in any other part of the world. We strongly recommend this ex: periment t0 wove who have formal the unfortunate Smprcssion that the Shanghai shopkeeper is rue They should try. to be a Ittle lew offtrand and a litre more kindly manner. "We can assure all cone cerned that it works, HoNokoxe, Oct. 11:—An early: dissolution of the Canton strike pickets and the anti-Hongkong lnqy-, Reuter.
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