They drink their wine cold instead of hot.

Their books all open at the wrong end, and the lines in a page are horizontal instead of vertical.

They put their guests on the right instead of on the left, though it is true that we did that until several hundred years ago.

Their music, too, is so funny, it is more like noise; and as for their singing, it is only very loud talking.

Then their women are so immodest; striding about in ball-rooms with very little on, and embracing strange men in a whirligig which they call dancing, but very unlike the dignified movements which our male dancers exhibit in the Confucian temple.