FARE YOU WELL

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 6 (Supplement)

FARE YOU WELL

DIFFERENT " GOOD-BYES."

People who live in different countries and speak different languages have different ways of saying "Good-bye." The Turk will solemnly cross his hands upon liis breast and make a profound abeisance when lie bids you farewell. The genial Jap will take his slippers off as you depart, and say with a smile, "You are going to leave mv despicable house in your honourable journeyings—l regard thee." In the Philippines the departing benediction is bestowed in the form of rubbing one friend's face with one's hand. When you leave a Hindu lie falls in the dust at your feet. Fiji Islanders cross two red feathers. Natives of the New Guinea exchange chocolate. The Burmese bend low and say, "Hip hip." South Sea Islanders rattle each other's whalebone necklace. Sioux and the Blackfeet will dig their spears in the earth as a sign of confidence and mutual esteem. This is the origin of the term "Burying the Tomahawk." In the islands in the Straits of the Sound the natives will stoop and clasp your feet. The Russian form of parting salutation is brief: it consists of the single word "Prasehai." said to sound like a sneeze. The Othalheitol Islander will twist the end of the departing guest's rope, and then solemnly shake his own hand three times.