This enthusiasm perhaps requires explanation, Beer, vodka and cchampaygne can be procured almost where, and a demand for these desire for a wlass of ordinary cold water; and thing that does not seem to understood anywhere Tu Tapanese Manehuri the only alte natives to bottled. inspiration tea and Tansan, In Russian Manchuria they are t and soda ware one asks in cither realm for a Tittle water to take a pill, ar to mi with a medicine, or even with the servant produces bottle aerated water, No one can ferasp the plain water is preferable at some times to soda water, Tt is quite a diversion ona C. E.R, train watch the English and "American travellers making painful efforts in English, French, German and even Chinese, to coax the anxious a distressed a give them water Te is usually the Chinese: boys who assists the Russian steward, who finally understands, disappears into the adjoining coach and returns with the huge caralfe that aden the shelf in the sleeping car Javatory. Refuge in ural to one who has travelled much China and the distinct advantage to the tea drinker of Russian habits over Japanese practice in their for= style hotels and trains is that, fas the writer has said, it is on tap everywhere and at all times.
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