Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1905 — The Salaam. [ARTICLE]

The Salaam.

An easterner who has spent some years in the government service, including much time in Mohammedan countries, was inveighing against the orthodox theatrical representation of the oriental salaam. “That thing you see on the stage everywhere Is all wrong,” he declared—“l mean that bowing the head, raising the hands at arms’ length, palms down, and waving like you were swimming below water. There's no swth thing anywhere that I ever went, and I saw lots of salaams, including those to the sultan of Turkey himself. The real tiling is meant to represent groveling with your forehead in the dust, but they don’t grovel any more, at least V>w- They just stoop, make a motion as if to scoop up a little dust with the right hand from the ground and then rub it on the forehead. That means T am dust in your sight’ or some such oriental hyperbole.” San Francisco Chronicle. z**’"-"*.*