When inviting guests to a dinner or a feast, it is necessary to romer ber that any servants or person: guards they may bring along with them as well as their chauffeurs and rickshaw coolies will expect what Known as fan chien "food money." The amount. that should be paid varies in accordance with the place and also the status of the recipients. The haughty chauffeur expects con siderably more than the humble riekshaw coolie, and enjoys a standing somewhat similar to that of the chie servant or the bodyguard of the visi-for. It is not unusual for the "food money" to amount to a considerable sum and it is quite permissible Drovide a table of food for thes retainers instead of giving thers money.
In dealing with the Chinese, it must not be forgotten that they belong to country where the middleman 40 between reigns supreme, and that Whenever an. awkward situation arises or an impasse is reached their structures, superimposed on the roofs many factories," and away 10 your native craft, with their dark brown of certain buildings, chiefly depart-left the tanks of the Asiatic "and alls, tacking to and fro, oF running mental stores and. places of amuse-Standard Oil companies. On the: before the wind, ment. 'Many tall and smoke' chim-river itself, parts of which you can noys are visible round the horizon, see, when not obscured by other Residential Areas these indicate the cotton and. other buildings, there is a constant flow factories in the industrial districts. of trate, for the Whangpoo Our Anal 100k will be to the west Further away, especially towards the claimed to be one of the most round towards north. For the frst West, is the residential quarter, here congested rivers in the world, and couple of miles, there is a dense the dense mass of the city thins out, a glance will show you' that this mass of buildings, which gradually and with the aid of many fine houses, standing in large' garonfention is wall founded. for you tone down into' roads. lined by will see, especi it houses, with here and. there open dens may be seen. Still further' off be at the turn of the tide, vessels spaces. Further still to the west is the fat surrounding country, and. craft innumerable. There are ward, detached houses with gardens, covered with trees and bamboo liners, coast and river "steamer appear set back from the. ro stover and threaded with numerous launches, ferries, junks large and these are along the outside roads, creeks. small, lighters, cargo boats, ° sam-the newly developing Western Resl-Let us box the compass, and point pans," and at limes, rafts, covering dential District, the product vf out what you can see from. where the face of the water, and moving last few years.' So lately as 10 years you stand, in all directions and at'all sorts of ago, where you now see many speeds. On the Shanghai side of houses. there were only a few the river along the Bund you will isolated dwellings, surrounded To the north and north-east, is see portions of some of Shanghai's open country. Due to the increasing the large industrial and shipping' most' famous buildings. Starting value of the land, in and near the fit trict commonly called Hongkew, right, is the Shanghai General, Post fom your left and. working to. the commercial" conte of the city, historically interesting for it was coupled with the movement west: here in 1848, that Bishop Boone of JOmce, with its tower and clock; the ward of offices and shops, those who the American Church Mission, ¢s-Cathay Hotel with its pointed tower, wish to reside far from the noise tablished his residence. and known and said to be one of the finest and bustle of the town, are forced ata hotels in the Far East; the office of later date as the American to build their homes in this, and Settlement, "Here along the the North China Daily News and other outlying districts, and it bank of the Whangpoo River, you, Herald, the home of our oldest fo to say that If Shanghai con-will see a succession of wharves and foreign newspaper: the Custom tinues to expand as it has done Warehouses, covering a frontage of
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