Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1925, Page 71

THE SUNDAY T IS HARD TO BE AN ORIENTAL, SAYS T0G Wallace Irwin Describes Japanese Schoolboy’s Experience. he Star. w.o have actice how say without swallowing. SIR: Last Thusdy ng p. m. 1 go to Japan- Sunrise Club for play a gamble called Pool what were invented by French of Kelley who are without making unhappy While 1 were poking marbles a4 (price each poke) who e to me but Furic Japanese vor itek who I not seen long from p w oy AREST ever dead me he narrate, stan retively, “when iently please to come very umportant news.” T lose 0.22% e 1 shall burst ain,” 1 3 “Therefore let Ik & p we are not here.” When T #ay that, Hon. Furio Jingo led i part to where they was a bottel, illegal while talking to 2 chat seemn ashamed to be in pany rep 5 along u talk ify rt Hon powful £lasses cause a Furio Jingo. alkol drink know this very good temn- Inspector sold it to me. Now I shall tell you at stands on top perance Drunk 1gh of nd. flung icker away & caught it 1 do similar & feel 1 wed a alegator the wrong ani ot 1 et are which now we £ “There are so manny ng in the Orient that arcely noticeable You cannot go apan, China, India & other stop without seeing so many Orientals you wish they was Irisl mething. W )y it are therefore more & plenty ail are no pleasure ann re al you wish do about T ask to know art this Eastern Addition for axclusive pupposes, quickiy.” he Orientals they are twins more they time to be What vthing? I wish ciety serate patriot, wil about anny axclusive evebrows. O not! t, i he Hi Johnson, disappointed be tickled dead to hear Oriental club that are 1 holla with California he delegate. “This Society !l be axclusive in other way. It 1l be started for puppose of keep- a few high-up Far Easterners in it vircles of snobbery 50 no com- ns can get in. Other words, we v make great priviledge to belong. We wish it hard to be an Oriental. Goshes! 1 ha enough dy without it worse make whop. to start “Are it not Oriental a club to have | n a Oriental have a | | there? Name | Addition | fou mean by that narrow | Young Rajah go home to Sillyboody. )| he ask “Well so,” 1 dik shoulder at As with each moving day wit they get away They come to Cal find that shore lo g0 to Switzerlan unless they got of tions, wh already. “0 beestrings “Orientals is too they look in tabiecloths on t Turk towels for a voung Rajah ( other A.) desire go London aristocracy. miiles British He fall 2 lady. She give while she call like My Lickorisi Male. Then in Please pay as Konse check for intend to pa or 2ce a Amy India him vou leave, nce of this Hon. Rajah sign it with proud teeth. “Look What ia happen They get so tired of living | that every h them. trom lifornia, muybe, and cked up. Then they d, but can't get in a ticket to League feh are too full it Vet each are how I evaporate plenty and see how Beautiful silk heir heads, lovely pants. Sometimes Hindu word for Mr. & behave like What happen? in love with refined smiles sweetish name Drop, My Black a Husband he report him h come s much as France erica, if ever, while over your other? “THEN INCOME A HUSBAND, PLEASE PAY AS YOU LEAVE, HE REPORT. Indiz, and met his father who are 50 mad he throw a throne in his face “Yes, indeedly, it are hard to be a Orfental” 1 Wspeak onwards re- sembling Burton Holmes. “Turn yvour left eye around & see Egypt, if smoke will permit. What they got there? The benefit of a English Govt. what permit them do as they please so long they do what Eng. land tell them each a. m., by tipe- writer. They got a King who live in a ottomobile so he can run away during revolutions & come back dur- ing coronations. Then they got Lord Allenby, the British general what entered Jerusalem on foot becauss he were afraid his horse might catch something. “In shortly,” T narrate following curses “lease Towerists Mummy-diggers Britlsh philanthropy king."” She got she had a Furio Jingo. "Egypt got one (1) less month ago, curse than amputate “Name senutor. it. if pussible,’T vall like a peruse Jingo % % “The Soudan ‘iA any rates,” I snarrel, “this Egypt were pretty happy with- out bathing until Europe come along & teach her how she could get civil- ized. She have got that, thank you, and there are no fun left axcept to #hoot & General sometimes & chase their Monark to the Valley of the Kings where he can find & tomb be- longing to somebody else & Sleep with his Ann Sisters until the British Museum come to digg him out.” “Well,” exclam Hon. Jingo, “at leastly it are rather easy & snapp to be Oriental in Japan.” “Open your lungs & try 1 bruise. “What happen there in that slightly happy Umpire of the Rising Sun?’ 1 mangle. *Japan get too proud to fight & too_enlarged for her kakemono. She start ‘to have a war with California, hoping to have Republican Party on her side=-then what come? Earthquack, by golly! It are hard to be patriotick and pretend you are Jno, W. Davis or some. to think!" STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JANUARY 4, OW that Midwinter is here we have come into the open season for the various Ladies’ i Culture Clubs, 1 suppose that this kind of club exists in everybody else's town just as it does in mine. We have one in my town that meets at 11 (every other Tuesday), has just a small cup of coffee and just a tiny sandwich, hears an hour's talk, usually on music or art, and then goes home. Then there's one that meets lunch, every second Thursday every third Tuesday, quite inform just eats a tiny bLeefsteak with a nice dish of apple pie after it and listens to a speech on national af- fairs, excluding, of course, all refer- ence to political parties or opinions. After that there's a club, mostly of older women, which meets at 3 (without refreshments till after) and discusses social problems such as how to keep younger women in hand. This club meets every first Monday in the month unless it falls at the beginning of a week. But the club that has most inter- ested me recently is the Ladies Cul- ture Club because [ had the honor of being invited to one of its meet- ings. The club was founded two Winters ago-—as was explained to {me over the ice cream by the presi- | dent, with the idea that it is a pity | that women know so little of science |and that nowadays science is really | becoming a quite {mportant thing |and when you think of radio and electrons and atome and things like l!llll one ought to know at least | something about them for fear of lf eling ignorant bdy else when yr bed are shaking you | |all over Tokyo and Emperor Palace |start walking downhill toward Yoka- | homa.” “In some soon time of future,” s |gest Hon. Jingo, “all that Orient | get s0 shuck up she will stop staying "homfl & arrive to New York axpecting | to conquor America. Then you will see some funs. All Chinese laundries in Chicago, Milwaukee & Boston will arise uply and pour starch on trolly tracks so that traffick will get stuck up while Hindus takes the City Hall and Jap- anese manage the police dept. In mean- times_African navy will arrive up take over Pullman Industry.” O shuck & nonsense.”” I collaborate “What will Orientals and other dark color of races want with America Even if they obtained U. S. A. they could not afford to live here because of price of rents & income tax.” “Would not Muhammedans be pretty happy to live here?"” reqquire Furio with voice. 'Since Prohibition come. 1 nationalize. “Why couldn't?” he denote “Because they are not permitted to get drunk,” I commute smartly. persons feels very lonesome in Phohibi- | tion_Country." *Neverthelesaly, at and they could not 1925—PART 5. “WHEN AND SAT DOWN THE AUDIED ___END OF THE LECTURE. when the club was founded was made absolutely and exclusively a women's club, men taking no part in it whatever, except that men are invited to be the speakers and to sit on the platform and to attend the meetings. The day 1 was there the meeting was held In the ballroom of the n. it are hunting new memberships for that Fastern Addition Society. Our Motto Let us Stick together & rule the world “‘Natlons has got 1o do something be- es get stuck together. Look at China'!" Furio stemp to do so. “Ch A are so stuck together that you cannot tell the Revolution from the Republick. If somebody could gegh few Chinese general stuck apart laybe you 14 learn names of their wrmies, and what fighting for, if anything. No, Sir E! T repulse. 'All Orient are now so stuck | together it make fivpaper look like skating rink.” “Japanese, being different from people, West & East,” sippose “She are not stuck on anything Nothing except her self,” I bl ery well s0,” holla Jingo, * are good Japanese (as you s spites of American pant) to Fastern Addition Society, ““What 1 accumplish by such a club This from I. “Did 1 not stuck together a a!l Orientals should | he reqquire nervely. | ““Yes did,” I narrate baffabiy. | “Well ' then,” he lassoo like Will | Rojahs famus joke-roper, “let me add | you to that sticking. You are stuck 23." Hoping you_are the same, Yours truly, HASHIMURA T | noon to lis | was | with spikes. fl THE PROFESSOR DRANK THE REST OF THE WATER NCE KNEW THAT IT WAS THE Grand Palaver Hotel, because that is a simple place suitable for science. There were no decorations except flowers and no music except a Hun- garian orchestra which stopped, the moment the lecture began. This rule of the club. The attendance was so large that several of the ladies remarked with pride that it would hardly have been possible to ‘get an equal number of men to come at 3 o'clock in the after- en to a lecture on “Four al Space.” cat mass of chairs on the floor of with a certain number and there among them; a peculiar kind of men. president and a group of ladies were on a raised platform and they had ir e middle of them Prof. Droom, who wa: (0 lecture on four dimensional space. In front of him they had put a little table with a glass and wate enough water to Jast a camel for a four days' trip. Behind Prof. Droon barricade of chaire and plants He couldn't escape. * x ok % Dime The g seated In ballroom men here they were members the of but The HE _president rose and made the regulation announcement that there were a good many members who had not vet paid their fees this season and it was desirable that they should do 0 owing to the high cost of bringing lecturers to the club. She then picked up a d_read from it The Pythagorean philosophers well Philc and Hicetus of Syracuse conceived of space as imma- terial. The Alexandrine geometers sub- conception of rigid co-ordi- ated ientific piece of paper a as follows as ns | heta isal were | GLORIOUS TIME AT LADIES' CULTURE CLUB Stephen Leacock Reports a Lecture on the Fourth Dimension. [ thinking until our own day 1 will now introduce Prof. Droon who will address the members on four dimensional space if the ladies near the doorway will kindly occupy the chairs which are still empty at the front Prof. Droon, rising behind the water Jug, requested the audience im & low voice to dismiss from their minds all preconceived notions of the spatial content of the universe. When the; had done this, he asked them to dis- regard the familiar postulate In regard to paralled lines. Indeed, it would bs better, he whispered, if thay dls- missed all thought of lines as such and substituted the idea of motion through a series of loci concelved as instan- taneous in time. After this he drank and started, In the address which followed and which lasted for 1 hour and 40 minutes, it was clear that the audlence were in rapt attention. They never removed their eyes from the lecturer's face and remained soundless excep that there was a certain amount of interested whispering each time he drank water. half the' water * ok ok % HEN he mentioned that Euclid, the geometrican, was married four times there was distinct sighs of amusement. There was a slgh of commiseration when he sald that Archimedes was killed by a Roman soldier just as he was solving a prob- lem fn mechanics. And when he mentioned the name of Christopher Columbus there was obvious and general satisfaction. In fact, the audlence followed t lecturer word for word. And when at length the professor asked in a whis- | per whether he could any longer | maintain the conception of a universe | absolute in time and drank the rest of the water and sat down, the augdience knew that it was the end of the ture and there was a distinct wave of applause. The comments of the they flowed out of the hall showed how interested they had been. 1 heard one lady remark that Professor Droon had what she would call a sympathetic face; another said, yes except that his ears stuck out' too far Another said, she had heard that he was a very difficult man to live with; and another said she imagined that all sclentists must be because she had a friend who who had lived in the same house ail Winter with the Marconis and very | often Marconi wouldn't cat. There was a good deal of comment on the way the professor's tie was up nea his ear and a general feeling that he probably needed looking after There was a notice at the where we went out which said | the next lecture would be by Profes- sor Floyd of the college department ¢ botany on The Morphology Gymnasperms. They sa be a big attendance agai lec- audience as Chinese Hens Furnish Eg’gs to Be Distributecl Throughout World Incubators of Type That Was Operated Centuries Before Ours Were Invented Have Big Output. BY FRANK € S00 CARPENTER. | HOW, China. ates we think of | hen as one of our | stitutions, but she is a | chick in comparison | cousin in China. The| n was on the job before ramids were built, and she has orking regularly for thousands | Un ar ts have found ev dence that the Chinese had domesti- ated the the pig and the sheep as back as 8000 B. C., and I doubt haeolog To Chinese a hen Is simply a‘ ¢n. and one is as good as another, provided she does her duty in the} matter eggs. Consequently they have not developed the scores of pla and fancy breeds of chickens we have in the States. Nevertheless, cea are expert poultry rais- artificially hatching out young chicks centuries first incubator | velvety The Chinese hen has also become an important factor in foreign trade. Whila she continues to work quietly ome, her product is being dis- buted all over the world. If you rat bakers' cake or occasionally buy andy, the chances are that you have asted of the fruit of her labors, for dried and frozen eggs from China are sold to the confection )f Europe and America t was on the edge of Soochow far from the walls ofjthe city*that T saw today one of the hatcheries that wers in operation hundreds of vears before we claimed the invention of tneubators e shop 1 visited is now hatching more than 50,000 chicks . week. It is producing more than 3,000,000 chickens, ducklings and £oslings a vear, and that at Jess pro- portionate cost than any hatchery in Uie United States. This incubator is #lso more eficient than ours, for 23 f every 24 eggs produce chick- ens, ducklings or goslings, and this average is kept up year In and year N AN e il 41 O "4 oot 1 s e | shops and | white, | many out. This is only dreds through China. But come with Chinese hateh through narrow little f. anals on and finally house that Entering man: stone, story street. chickens. stree: one of eight such | establishments at Soochow, and hun- of others are to be found all me and see how the We walk walled with actorfes. We cross arched bridges of come to a 10w, one- opens right on the the door, we find ourselves in a room with a dirt floor and filled with ba skets as big around as a cartwheel and about half a foot Tk with tiny and 24 hours. things little legs, the We can tell them their webbed feet are not they In the goslings, same larger coats of near them filled with duck e coats are singing baby swallows. a similar basket filled w old enough chirp almost room are other huge E o | high. Each basket contains 150 fluffy )t the wives ose days cooked 3 S e fA,‘,.(,.’,‘“lg; (g]:, their llnd:x and | little chickens hatched within the last are beautiful lit of brown and pink bills and red like o Farther on is ducklings. from the chicks by and flat bills. They to quack. and like the chickens are baskets of but with the same vellow down, and baskets g8s and goose cEES ready for hatching. As we watch, m are brought chicken merchant; fore buying. They hand them over to | men who rapldly tle holes in the brick wall they house =0 that in by ore baskets of eggs the farmers. The s test each one be- before of the pass them are candled the rays of the sun that come through. Those found to be good are paid for 1% cents for du rates of 3 cent for hen eggs and k eggs and 1 cents for the goose eggs. EAVING hatchery. of clay ovens and shaped like hives. Each has bottom and a sor work cap on top. bare to the waist caps. Looking in It three layers of baskels as big as the | ones 1 have described holding the| ! o this room. as big as we enter the consists of a series hogsheads old-fashioned bee- a fireplace in the t of padded basket- . A burly Chinese, . lifts up one of the iside, 1 see two or '1' }}k; RVWW ¥ 5 ks “IN ONE YEAR CHINA SHIPPED NEARLY 10,000,000 POUNDS OF FROZEN EGGS TO THE UNITED STATE IN CANS HOLDING ABOUT THREE GALLOY USED CHIEFLY BY BAKERS A ND CONFECTTION THE S EACH Y ARE PUT UP AND ARE ERS." TS by | chicks. Each basket contains 109 or 200 eggs. A blast of warm air comes forth, and. putting my hand on the eggs, 1 can feel that they are milk warm. As I look & workman lights a fire in another oven, using a bundle | of rice straws, worth perhaps 1 or 2 cents. This bit of fuel will warm the oven enough for the 10 days the eggs are to remain in it. During this period they are turned over every day, and at the end they ars taken out and laid upon racks overhead or put in deep baskets. Each layer of €gES is covered with a cloth to keep it warm. The baskets used are of closely-woven straw and lined with Daper, 50 as to keep out the cold. In other words, these Chinese incu- bators are worked on the principle of the fireless cooker, the eggs being first warmed in the ovens and then packed so they will not lose any of their heat The period of incubation is longer or shorter, according to whether the eggs are those of geese, ducks or chickens. The manager tells me that It takes 30 days to hatch the goose eggs, 26 to hatch the duck eggs and 21 or 23 for the eggs of the chickens. During this time every egg has to be turned twice a day, and the young must be taken out as soon as they | Caring for the egg: |infinite care and patience, and a case |of being on the job all the time. | Usually the workmen sleep in the reom with the eggs or in one ad- | joining, and some one is on duty at | #very hour of both day and night Although everything depends on keeping the eggs at just | temperature, no thermometers are |used. A workman tests the tempera- ire of the eggs by thrusting one into | the socket of his eves and holding it ere a second or two. He becomes so expert that when the egg touches his eyelid he can tell right away whether it is too warm, too cool or just the right temperature. and looked over a space about 20 feet baby goslings, ducklings and chicks, some with their heads out and some | with bits of shell stili on their backs. It was a remarkable sight, and as 1 watched the chirping of something 1 e 2,000 little throats made a musi- cal sound in my ears. One of the workmen carried & basket of duc lings out into the sun so 1 ¢ photograph them. I asked the man- agor what they would sell for. He | for chickens, 4 centa |ceuts for goslings. Fe said he had no trouble in selling all he could |hateh, and I judge that he makes a | ralr profit. The ch ready for |sale es soon as dry. and are usuall | taken on contract by chicken dealers |and duck feeders. or ducks and § by WISH | could take cne o (L ful Awerican he | rooster through a factory 1 jon the banks of the Whangpoo River {at Shenghal. I venture the hen wouid be clucking and the rooster crowing with {ndignation for weeks to come. The dey's output of the factory wepresented the work mere (han 1,000,006 hens whose eggs were heing dried or frozen for use in the Unite States end Europe. Although the Chinese have had for leenturtes may ways of preparing eggs for the market, it remained for Amer- icans to come here and establish the luxiness of freezing and drying egxS | by the milllon and shipping them all over the world. s particular | plant, bullt of bricks and concrete, i= a etriking example of American =anitation and cleanlines« in a coun- try of which some one has sald the | people take only two baths in a life- | tin cue when they are born and the other when they are laid out for burial. I do not believe this statese | ment, but the care of the person of the common Chinese leaves much to Lo wished for. If cieanliness is next to godliness, the workers in this factory are Celestinl in miore wavs than one. Of its 900 employes every one who han- dles an egg has 10 take a shower or | tub bath_every da There are 400 girls, each of whom has to keep h “nalls mianicired down t$ the quic f our help- or even make their way through the shells. | is a work of | the right | | When I climbed up onto 2 platform | square covered with eggs I could see | replied that he was getting 215 cents | 2 visited She she is inspected by a doctor when comes to work, and she has to put on clothing of snow-white cot- ton which covers her from her head to her feet. She wears a long white gown buttoned tight at the neck and a cap which covers every bit of her face and little Jersey cream ears. As I went through the factory. we came to a room where 200 girls were breaking efgs and separating the volks from the whites. They sat at iong tables with knife blades fixed horizontally before them, and they broke each egg without touching the contents. Before we came in I had doubted the truth of the managers statement about manicured nails, and 50 he asked me to select any table 1 pleased, saying he would have the girls working there show me their fingers. 1 chose one, and 15 girls came one by one before me ahd held up their hands. At the same time they put out their tongues and opened their mouths wide that [ might gaze down their throats. They evidently thought I was the doctor who makes the daily inspection. Although 1 looked closely there was not a single fingernail which showed any signs of being in mourning. But let me take vou through the tactory and show vou just what goes on there. We shall first see the eggs coming in. They arrive in huge | baskets, each of which holds three or four bushels, and contains. per- | hape, one thousand eggs. These eggs are sent in by the buyers from out in the country, and some of them have come hundreds of miles. When 1 inquired why they did not use cases. as we do, to prevent breakage. T was { told that at the present prices of eggs it is cheaper to stand the loss | of the few amashed in transit. | At the factory the eggs are rolled {out on endless belts and carrfed by machinery to the candling room. temperature here is about 48 degrees above zero, and I put on an overcoat before T went in It was flled with | girls, each of whom was picking up eggs one by one and holding them be- fore an electric light globe in a frame that made it look like the eve of a dragon. If the egg showed a trans- parcnt rellow it was passed; if not, it was thrown out. The next room was were breaking the egg! cured maiden handling about five {hundred a day. The room was several hundred feet square, but it looked and smelled as clean as a kitchen in Holland, The eggs are so broken | ghat the yolks are separated from the whites and each dropped into a can. Some of the cans go to freez- ing rooms, but most of the yolks |and whites are dried. The yolks are where they each mani- Eha’s Merry Pet Was Original N the annals of the naturalists there is 1o record of amy pet animal more amusing and attractive than that of Dr. Eha. This little creature was a lemur: and, besides many gen- tle and caressing ways, it seemed as, if it possessed a certain sense of hu- mor Tiha used to take its soft hand and examine its pretty nails. Each hand had ene sharp claw. quite long. Such @ curious arrangement puzzled the naturalist, until one day a _flea | showed him the use of that claw. The flea bit the lemur under the ribs. The naturelist then thought that the Jit- | tle beast had reason to be thankful | that nature had spared one toe when it promoted the animal to the order of four-handed creatures. | 1t would seem that no one could possess a more charming pat. life so gayly, and its antics were 8o criginal. ~ When the doctor's man- servant let the lemur out of its cage in the morning it would scamper straight Lo its master's bedroom, look jaround with large eyes brimming | with mild curiosity, and as lightly a rubber ball spring fo the dressing | thing. Then 1t would bound across |the hed and Jand on its master's | shoulders, handle his ears gently. | thrusting in its long tongue to find aut. *This was beyond human endurance, It took | table, Where it would examine every- | | wondering what was in the hole, and | churned by machinery so that they are thoroughly mixed, and then poured out upon great drums or rollers as big around as a hogshead As the roller moves around a blast of hot air, which has been thor- oughly washed before being heated, i blown upon the eggs until every bit of moisture has evaporated. The dried yolk is then scraped off the roller in golden yellow flakes. These are packed and sealed in tin hoxes of 125 pounds for shipment abroad. The whites are churned in large vats, allowed to stand for several days, and then dried by hot air. o ox % LL these products are sold chiefly to bakers and candy makers, who use them in place of fresh eggs. Albumen, made from the whites of the eggs, is also used in making medi- cines, patent foods, hair and skin lo- tion and even in printing cotton cloth. This manufacturer claimed that his product is superior to the desiccated and frozen eggs of the United States in that only the freshest ezgs are used, while in our country, he said fr eggs are in such big demand in the market that it is only the cold storage hen which does the laying for the driers and freezers. He com- plains about our tariff, which com- pels him to ship the bulk of his out- | put to other countries. Still, as his factory Is being steadily enlarged, I suppose he makes money. There are two kinds of factories in the dried egg business in China. One is the modern type, of the kind I have described, where not only are the rooms and machinery kept spot- lessly clean. but the empioyes must be as sanitary in their persons as a hospital nurse. The other kind is the native establishment where the Chi- nese ideas of cleanliness prevail. The low-grade native establishments are being driven out of business by the increasing demand of buyers that dried egge be produced under the best conditions. The export trade affords practically the only market, so that those who do not meet the standards of forelgn countries must sooner or later find themselves without amy customers. The largest single market for Chi- nese dried eggs Is in Great Britain. The United States, which ranks sec- ond, takes only a little more than one-fifth as many as the British, and the remainder go to the other coun- tries of Europe. One of Uncle Sam's experts on Chi- nese trade has given me some figures on last year's busineas in frozen and dried eggs. He tells me that more than thirty-six million pounds of frozen eggs were exported. while the | however, and the master would roll the Httle animal into 2 ball, and wind its long. furry tail about it, flinging it into the hed. Tt would be unwound { in & moment and would skip away to explore some more. Tta hind legs being longer than its | front legs, it walked slowly, with its { head down:*but when in a hurry, it | would stand up and hound along, like & kangaroo. tail in air, arms extend- | ed and fingers spread. | The servants regarded the lemur as uncanny, and fled at its approach. It would glve chase, and there never was finer sport than to see the fat butler in full flight upon the long stairway, with the gleeful little le- mur after him, three steps at a bound. ‘ s S Fishing and Trapping. PPROXIMATELY 270,000 hunting and trapping licenses are issued to sportsmen and trappers in New York State annually. In addition, it is estimated that about 200,000 other individuals engage in angling and netting flsh. He Knew. “What is the plural of ‘man “alen.’ “What is the plural of ‘ehild'? “Tvins. | there patches of cotton. Jor amount of dried whites and yolks shipped abroad totaled about fifty- | seven million pounds. In drying, the eggs lose about four-fifths their | weight; therefore, something like 285,000,000 pounds of eggs in the shell were required to yield 000,000 pounds of dried eggs. Chinese egis average 1,100 to the hundred pounds, S0 that more than three billion cg&s | were smashed to get this amount of the dried product. This number is enough to give every one in America & soft-boiled egg for breakfast five mornings a week every week in the vear. There are not any poultry breeders in China as we know them in the Tnited States, but practically every family living out in the country has a few hens. They are fed mostly on table scraps, with a little cracked rice or bran, and usually are per- mitted to roost inside the house with the family, so that the Chinaman spends practically nothing on their food or quarters for his egg pro- ducers TPHE province of Kiangsu, in which Soochow is located, is one of the great egg districts of China. This is partly because it has such abun- dant water transportation, and partly because it is so densely populated. In coming to Soochow from Shanghal by train, T passed through a rich farming district and had a good chance to see the farms from which dribbling streams of eggs flow to the hatcheries and dried egg factories. My train left Shanghai at 7 o'clock in the morning. but even at that hour the streets were crowded with peo- ple and the station was thronged. After leaving the factory district of Shanghai we passed through villages of mat sheds and shot oat into the fertile farm lands of the Yangtse delta. Here, for a hundred miles back from the sea, the soil has been built up by the river. The country is wonderfully beauti- ful. although it is as flat as a floor. It is spotted here and there with clumps of bamboo and groves of green trees. Now and then thereis a farmstead, its low buildings of brick, stone, or mud roofed with black tiles and surrounded by tree Some of the latter are the candle trees, which grow a wax on one side of their leaves that is used to make candles. There are no fences in the flelds, which are great patchworks of color, each representing a crop, and dotted with people at work. These fields are mostly truck gardens for | we knees wading through the rice fields now covered with water. Their bl gowns show out against surface, and their yellow 1o them look like storks, that bend over, seem be diving worms. The crops are so rich they make one think of an experiment farm, and planted so close together that form one solid patch reaching far and wide. The wide furrows run out from the railw es of green and yellow, w colate soil, in which not a weed is to be seen, showing between the rows. T! are no flowers between the fields, and no poppies or corn flowers in the wheat as in other countries. It is one vast garden of chocolate-brown soil which is being tickled by these thou. sands of blue-gowned Chin it laughs with the harvest 1E whole cou T wateryays ere seem to be more canals here than in Holland, and almost every farm can be reach- ed in a hoat. Many narrow that only a canoe g0 through them. and oth re broad enough for big junks. At a distance the canals are invisible; we only the white s skimming along w seem to solid green fields. crossing one canal we see a man dig- ging mud from the bottom and load- ing it into a boat. B scatter it over the fields. are kept clean in this way, rich dirt fertilizes the farms. There are but few roads. Sucl are narrow tracks winding way and out through the fields. many of them following the canals. Some of the highways are mere wheelbarrow paths. There 80 many canals that it will be diffi- cult to cover this country with motor roads such as we have in the thickly settled parts of Rhode Island, which has a popuulation almost as dense the one through which we are ps ing. Most of the traffic is made up of humans on foot. We see many coolies gs m try s cut up by are can s0 be while the their in Shanghal, Soochow, and the thickly populated area between. They are in- | credibly small, some being no big- | ger than a city lot, but each one | produces two or three crops a year. | Besides the vegetables, there are rice | fields and wheat flelds, and here and | Everywhere one rees mounds of | green, large and small, dotting the flelds. They are so thick In places that they look as though the grass has been cut and put up in cocks. They are the famous grave mounds of China, and in them are buried the millfons of dead of the past. Occa- sionally we see vaults with plastered walls built in the field: Each con- tains a dead Chinese or his ashes, and probably also those of his wife and children. They may be mounds by and by. Sec the people at work in the fields. There are some women wlelding long- prolonged hoes about a foot wide. Their blue-gowned backs rise and fall as they dig up the rich soil. There a man in a blue gown is swing- Ing a scythe; he is mowing a wheat field. The Chinese grow wheat in furrows which they weed and hoe just as we work our gardens and harvest the crop by hand. Often cutting it it witif a sickle. We see sheds here &nd there: they are the shelters for the boys“and old women and men who watch the crops to scare off the birds. These huts also cover wells fed by, the creeks near by. Irside each one is a carabgo or an ox moving around, turning a wheel that raises the water into the ditches through which it flows over the fields. A great part of the ‘region is irrigated, but all the | water is raised by the power of man | beast. Human labor the cheapest thing there is in China, and the work of the country {s done by “IN THE ( HOSPITAL NURSES. DETERMI they | and by he will | The canals | | are pushing wheelbarrows loaded wi | s00ds, and now and then a cart drag- ged by men or a water buffalo. Occasionally we see flocks of duct Duck raising is more of a specialty ina than chicken breeding. In the lake districts the flocks are often driven from pond to pend to feed, herded by & man or woman carrying a long bamboo pole. The driver plans his trip €o that he and his flock will arrive at some large town by the time | the birds are ready for market. An- | other method Is that of raising the | ducks on boats, which are moved about on the canals so that the fowls y feed In the swamps and marshy banks. The boats are anchored close | the shore and a board is laid to the land. Thereupon the ducks march off ;| in single file and poke their Mills into the fish. mad They and shell- feed until the of the boat blows a whistle they make a run for the The man stands at the end of | for worms | | | | » gangplank with a stick in his | | greedily owner hand, and as e last one frantically waddles aboard he give it a hard | beating. The ducks quickly learn | that the tail-ender is sure of a whip- ping, and each run like mad to avoid it | From the duck the ra material for one of China's gastro- nomical delicacies, the famous pickl- cd or preserved eggs. I have learned just how these are prepared. ach egg is covered with a quarter-inch | layer of paste made of soda, straw | ashes, salt, and slaked lime. Wrap- ped in rice straw to prevent them from sticking, the eggs are then put into a big jar and sealed up for 20 days. At the end of that time they are ready for eating, the meat of the egg having coagulated and acquired the right flavor. These pickled eggs can be kept a long t but as a matter of fact, those put down in any one season are usually eaten witl ic vear. The impression amons Americans that the Chinese cat egg. many years old is largely contrar to the fa ‘Carpeater's World Travels, eomes Cou DLING ROOM_OF A GREAT AMERICAN EGG.PACK- ING PLANT IN SOOCHOW, CHINESE GIRLS, UNIFORMED LIKE E THE AGE OF EGGS BY HOLD. ING THEM IN FRONT OF AN ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB,”