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...English climate and the English countenances were cool. They called her father "The Emperor," but there was no conviction in their tones. The family seldom left the brownstone walls of their house in Bath, or the garden, tight-screened by cedar trees...
Upholstered in Western clothes, Tsahai and her mother went out sometimes to tea, chatted politely, accepted as polite the thin-lipped smiles of Bath. Tsahai learned to accept her isolation with the dignity her father so frequently recommended. She enrolled in a London hospital for a nurse's training course, earned a diploma and was ready, when her father regained his kingdom, to return with...
...Fort St. John they mill around on the dusty or muddy main street with lumberjacks, trappers and "dirt stiffs" (construction workers), looking over the waitresses and dumpy Indian girls. Sometimes they get a haircut in Joe's tent barbershop, or go to the hospital, which has the only bath and running-water toilets in town. Average Saturday night consumption of 50?-a-bottle beer is 3,500 bottles. At the Inn in Whitehorse the jampacked soldiers sometimes push the 11 o'clock curfew up to 2 a.m., ending with a mouth-organ duet and fine, boozy soldier harmony...
...They lined up about 3,000 British and Americans and marched us down the main street four abreast before the native population. . . . There was no crying and chins were up. Four-hundred of us were put into a hotel where 93 of us shared one dirty toilet and one bath. We were watched by Indian and Chinese police who had gone Jap. They slapped whites for as little as speaking to friends. The servants enjoyed torturing their masters. The Japs made propaganda films of our marching through the streets with burdens...
Beautiful Corruption. On election days they voted as Hinky Dink wanted. In time he became a political power; inevitably he met and made a friend of Bathhouse John, then a rubber at the old Palmer House baths. The Bath was elected Alderman in 1892; five years later Hinky Dink followed him into the council as second Alderman. But a 1923 reorganization allowed only one Alderman per ward...