35G LITTLE FOLKS 
with fresh food each day, for the entertainment of travelers. 
Now-a-days, people can find better use for money than spending 
so much for food. 
If you should travel round the world, you would learn to eat 
your dinner in a good many ways. In Turkey you would learn to 
sit on the floor, cross-legged, and eat your dinner off a round tray, 
without knives or forks, plates, glasses, or napkins. All the guests 
eat with their fingers out of the same dish. If you dined with the 
Arabs, you would see no knives or forks, and if your host offered 
you a choice bit of meat, you would be expected to open your 
mouth, and let him put it in. The Arabs use only the right hand 
in eating, and what is still more funny, they will pull apart or carve 
turkeys and fowls with only one hand, and without a knife. If it is 
hard to separate, one of the guests will lend his right hand. In 
Siam you would be treated to ant's eggs ; and Burmah to locusts, 
stuffed and fried. All you young folks would like to eat in Japan, 
for they serve candies and sweet things very often, and what you 
can't eat you are expected to take home. At grand feasts, guests 
are expected to bring servants, with baskets, to take home the 
leavings. In Abyssinia, it is a mark of good breeding to smack 
your lips while eating ; and I'm sure you'll not be surprised to hear 
that they eat their meat raw. In South America, you would eat 
lizards and snakes ; and among our American Indians, you would 
be treated to roasted grasshoppers. In Otaheite, you would have 
your dinner alone, in a basket ; and if you were in the fashion, you 
would sit down on the floor, turn your back to everybody, and eat. 
It is there considered very improper to eat with others. Snails 
and horseflesh would greet you in France. But the funniest dish 
you would see, I guess, would be in China, where they serve up 
little crabs — alive! Just as they sit down to dinner, the tiny 
crabs are put into a dish of vinegar, which makes them very lively. 
Then they are put into a covered dish and placed on the table. 
When every one is ready, the cover is snatched off, and instantly 
the table is covered with scampering crablets, running for their lives. 
Now comes the fun. The guests take both hands, grab right and 
left, and stuff into their mouths these lively wriggling crabs, and 
eat them down with great relish. I don't think I would like to 
partake of that dish, though perhaps you would. 
While you're on your journey, perhaps you'd like to "skip" 
New Caledonia. For there — if they were at all polite to you — 
