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Olden Holiday Customs
By way of conclusion to this paper , we may briefly remark IIOAV the various methods of salutation among different peoples , exhibit their national characteristics . The Dutch , AVIIO are considered great eaters , salute in the morning , among all ranks , with " Smaakelyk eaten . " " May you eat a hearty dinner ! " Or otherAvise" Hoe vaart aive ? " " How do you sail ? " adopted
, during the early period of the republic , when they Avere mostly naA'igators or fishers . At Cairo , where a hot dry skin is indicative of an ephemeral fever , the usual address is , " Hoiv do you sweat ? " Some author has remarked that the inflexible dignity of the Spaniard is illustrated by the inquiry , " Come esta ?"
" HOAV do you stand ? " While the French " Comment vous portez-vous ? " is equally descriptive of the activity and mobility of the race . In the southern provinces of China , the loAver orders salute by the question " Ya fan ? " " Have you eaten your rice ? " perhaps inscribed as one of the three thousand rules of civility preserved by the tribunal at Pekin , and in their
highly-venerated volume . We have noiv come to the conclusion of our subject , Avhich does not seem to require any comment in addition to that Aidth which it Avas opened . In accordance Avith the nature of those remarks , then , we may violate the old custom of Avinding up with a literary flourish , and—sans ceremonie—go at once .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Olden Holiday Customs
By way of conclusion to this paper , we may briefly remark IIOAV the various methods of salutation among different peoples , exhibit their national characteristics . The Dutch , AVIIO are considered great eaters , salute in the morning , among all ranks , with " Smaakelyk eaten . " " May you eat a hearty dinner ! " Or otherAvise" Hoe vaart aive ? " " How do you sail ? " adopted
, during the early period of the republic , when they Avere mostly naA'igators or fishers . At Cairo , where a hot dry skin is indicative of an ephemeral fever , the usual address is , " Hoiv do you sweat ? " Some author has remarked that the inflexible dignity of the Spaniard is illustrated by the inquiry , " Come esta ?"
" HOAV do you stand ? " While the French " Comment vous portez-vous ? " is equally descriptive of the activity and mobility of the race . In the southern provinces of China , the loAver orders salute by the question " Ya fan ? " " Have you eaten your rice ? " perhaps inscribed as one of the three thousand rules of civility preserved by the tribunal at Pekin , and in their
highly-venerated volume . We have noiv come to the conclusion of our subject , Avhich does not seem to require any comment in addition to that Aidth which it Avas opened . In accordance Avith the nature of those remarks , then , we may violate the old custom of Avinding up with a literary flourish , and—sans ceremonie—go at once .