The reading public abroad continues to be fed with quaint tales about China, and the more they are accompanied by attestations of truth. the quainter are the tales. Horatio's philosophy was indeed remarkably limited in its knowledge of things in heaven and earth in comparison with In one of the leading London newspapers which publishes feature under the heading: "Readers' True Tales" recently appeared a blood - and - thunder-slinky-Chinese story ofthe usual. type started out with this bold assertion:
The Chinese are a queer people They read from the bottom Of the age upwards and walla through the oer backwards.
This is a startling piece of infor motion which ought to be communicated immediately to the educational authorities so that these evil customs be nipped in the bud in the schools otherwise we might find that soon the Chinese will reading the page from behind and walking through doors on their hands. It a well-known fact that in Australia people walk upside down 0 that. possible some conception exists in England that queer gravitational conditions exist in China, It almost reminds one of Stephen' Leacock's famous joke about London that he could always recognize the city because it had a large square in the centre and in it was a tall statue sur~ mounted by an admiral who pointed the way to the shop where they sold American safety razor blades.
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