147

Chinese Woman's Ruined Feet 147

Chinese School Children 148

The American Consulate at Antung 148

A Filipino's Home 157

The Carabao, the Work-stock of the Filipinos 158

An Old Spanish Cathedral 158

Society Belles of Mindanao, Philippine Islands 181

A Street Scene in Manila 181
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Two Kinds of Workers in Burma 182

Types at Darjeeling, Northern India,
and at Delhi, Central India 205

Two Rangoon Types 206

A Hindu Faquir 213

Some Fashionable Hindus 213

Hindu Children 214

The Taj Mahal from the Entrance Gate 241

Gunga Din on Dress Parade 242

Bathing in the Sacred Ganges at Benares 249

The Battle-scarred and
World-famous Residency at Lucknow 250

Burning the Bodies of Dead Hindus 255

An Indian Camel Cart 255

Travel in India 256

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WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UP

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I

JAPAN: THE LAND OF UPSIDE DOWN

"I cannot help thinking," said one of my friends to me when I left
home, "that when you get over on the other side of the world, in Japan
and China, you will have to walk upside down like the flies on the
ceiling!"

While I find that this is not true in a physical sense, it is true, as
Mr. Percival Lowell has pointed out, that, with regard to the manners
and customs of the people, everything is reversed, and the surest way
to go right is to take pains to go dead wrong! "To speak backward,
write backward, read backward, is but the A B C of Oriental
contrariety."

Alice need not have gone to Wonderland; she should have come to Japan.

I cannot get used, for example, to seeing men start at what with us
would be the back of a book or paper and read toward the front; and it
is said that no European or American ever gets used to the
construction of a Japanese sentence, considered merely from the
standpoint of thought-arrangement. I had noticed that the Japanese
usually ended their sentences with an emphatic upward spurt before I
learned that with them the subject o