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violent pull at my turban. I looked back and saw that he was a very gentlemanly-looking man, neatly dressed. I talked to him in English, and when I did that he became very much abashed, apparently because he did not think I could talk English. On another occasion in the same Fair another man gave me a push. When I asked him the reason why he did so, he also became abashed and at last stammered out an apology and said, "Why do you dress that way "The sympathies of these men were limited within the narrow range of their own language and their own fashion of dress. That very man who asked me why I did not dress as he did, and wanted to ill-treat me because of my dress is in all probability a very, good man; he may be a good father and a good citizen in every way; but the kindliness of his nature died out as soon as he saw a man in a different dress. Strangers are exploited in all countries, because they do not generally know how to defend themselves in the new situation; therefore they carry home false impressions of the
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