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good reason why he should. He is usually more than absorbed by 

 the new sights he is seeing, and he has enough society, as he under- 

 stands it, at home. In Shanghai, however, there is a large French 

 settlement, with French hotels and cafes, where the French contingent 

 feel at home and where French may be heard, but the life there is but 

 a feeble reminder of French life. To find a really French city in the 

 Orient one must go to Saigon, the capital of French Cochin China. 

 Here there is full-fledged French society with an excellent theater 

 and a season of French opera which is said to compare favorably 

 with that of New Orleans. On reaching the Philippine Islands the 

 American equipped with Spanish quite naturally feels that he will have 

 an opportunity to speak it. In Manila he does indeed find some 

 vestiges of Spanish, but he hardly is obliged to make use of it. Since 

 the Spanish-American war, the English language has made remarkable 

 progress in Manila and the few other large towns. Ten years of per- 

 sistent teaching of English have had their effect. The young people 

 growing up speak English with ease. The native clerks in the stores 

 are obliged to know English, and it goes without saying that the 

 present wide-awake business done in this American colony is carried 

 on in English. The conquerors have imposed their language upon 

 the conquered. On leaving Manila and going into the interior one 

 finds that the Spanish of the old days did not penetrate very far. 

 During the Spanish supremacy the Spanish language was only a 

 veneer. The mass of the native population spoke, as they still speak, 

 the Malay tongues. The Spaniards in power were not concerned with 

 the educational welfare of the Filipinos. Similarly in Java the Dutch 

 government is even said to discourage all intellectual advance on the 

 part of the natives and to keep the Dutch language safeguarded. The 

 Dutch themselves, with their polyglot accomplishments, of course 

 speak English with ease, so that the American tourist is able to travel 

 in comfort without Dutch from one end of Java to the other. In 

 Hongkong one finds one's self in an English city, where, in spite of 

 oriental suggestions on all hands, the tone is English. The names of 

 the streets are English. The outlying districts, with the private 

 homes, country clubs and barracks make one forget how far it is from 



