Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1925, Page 69

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, JANUARY 11, 1925—PART 5. WORLD TOUR COMPLETE IN 40 MINUT Nina Wilcos Am. poet is known, d to sa get out of said, Quoth then, S POE, the famous without, so far as any first name, us ‘When you wann something you have the Raven, or the Parrot, and never more—swear off!" T am real fond of them great hy terical truths which the poets of the ages has handed down to time, and one time on account of, and etc., nd this particular one occurred to ne the other night when something happened which commenced W ith George, that's my husband, coming home and hanging up his hat with a slam. Whenever I hear his kelley rash up against the hat tree in the nall, T know that in son way or another the only thing that's been etting him have his own way is the room scales. ell anyways, this well dear dld you have a good .day, and he says good for what, 1 seen Old General Bluster down to his office his morning, an whatter you think he told me Well, being a lady, I didn’t care to think too clear, on account it evi- dently was what men call plain lan- guage but we ladies term it fancy, to say the least. So I merely ys what did the old brute do to you dear? So Geo. worked hisself up and he says well, you know he told me I could have that house and lot over on Goolash Avenue as soon's 1 could get five thousand cash, and you know how we have saved to gether up that bunch of green henrys, and what a fi nvestment it would be for us, and now the old tightwad has cided he won't let it go, he'd rather it, property is up out night T says exe And I says why the mean old thing, what'll you do with the money now And here was where Geo. give me a big surpris He pulled a highly manicured book- let out his pocket with the picture f a steamer on it and he slapped it down onto the table. Well, says, all my life I have wanted to take a trip around the world, and now I am going to not one trip, but fall. We got the cash, and the catalogue, and now all we zot to do is get ready. Just give a look at this Well, just about then the tele- phone rung, and Geo. I will answer it, and went out in the hall to, while I set down and took a slant at the book. Of course, I had ideas about this 'round-the-world stuff, too. To commence with, my chief and pretty near only objection to it was that it had to be done on a boat. I and boats don't work together so £o0d, anyways not from my point of view, which is generally toward the water a good deal of the time. Of course, I had read in the ads of them crulses where these boats had cabins de looks. But I had a feeling 1 wouldn’t hardly be looking enough 1 on board for that to be any comfort to me. e HEN, again, I was kinda scared of boats for another reason, which was that a feller I onct knew got ar- rested aboard ship and had to serve out some kind of a nautical term. But, just the same I realized where, Just as the ads claimed, this was the »pportunity of a lifetime to see the world before it all got Broadwayized And as I commenced looking over the pretty picture book Geo. had left me with I made up our mind firm that we wouldn't let this trip be no ordi- nary one. We was going to see a lot ¢ things on it which the regular tourlsts don't When we got to China we was go- ing clear up to Chop Suey and see the factory, and In Indla I wanted to go all the ways to the sauce of that sacred river, the Ghandi, but we wasn't going anywheres near Nautch, where thém Nautch girls come from. I don’t like any man to be too edu- cated by going abroad, especially my husband. Of course, I doped out that in Japan the natives was undoubtedly a won- dertul little people, but if it was true they actually went right out in the strests in their kimonos it would be a terrible shock. But I would t and get used to 1 Putnam Balances J4 & Wy New Home Against Travel Plans R AT “I PERSONALLY MYSELF WOULD PREFER TO REACH JAPAN WHEN THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS ARE GONE AND THE CHERRY PIES HAD COMMENCED.” - on account I wanted to be charitable and realize where them poor foreign- ers didn't have the kinda modest bringing up like we get in America, and didn’t know nothing about one- piece bathing suits and evening dresses and other such garments which was meant to wear in public. I would leave all that to time and Gen. education and merely enjoy my- self among the cherry blossoms, al- though I personally myself would prefer in some ways to reach Japan when the cherry blossoms was gone and the cherry pies had commenced. Well, anyways, according to this book Geo. had brought home, the boat would stop at the Philippine Islands, and think of the chanct to buy Ma- nila handmade underwear! 1 could just figure where I would get it pretty near as cheap as down to one of the Emporium's white sales. There was something else made out there in them islands, too, that I suppose every tourist had ought to bring home & few of, but I wasn't real sure at the moment whether it was called Insurrectos or Appropriations, but anyways I set it down on my ilst to be sure and get a few as native souvenirs. - * ok k * ELL, anyways, it secms where this Luxurious Twin-propeller, with every convenience from com- paratively private baths to sun par- lors and meals when able, was to hitch up at them savage isles wher is now manufactured the most deadly | weapon known to modern civiliza- tion—the ukulele. Of course, I hoped no one in our party would buy one of them things. I do hate having them around the house, on account somebody who don’t really know how to handle them Is liable to pick 1t up carelessly any minute. No wonder they got {active voleano in the world out in them Hawailan Islands. Why even |over here, with all the ukes going, |1t's a wonder to me this U. S. A. country ain't developed a few vol- canoes already. Well anyways, they got s hin else out in them islands, a thing | called Hulas, but I had a kinda in- stinctive feeling I and Geo. wasn't going to get any of them any more then we was gonner get a few Nautches to bring home. As for the beach at Wakiki, well, the song writers of America had al- ready made me so familiar with that place I didn’t need to go there to see it any more then I needed to go to the biggest Dear Old Dixie Land in order I should know all about that, either. No more then the writers of the songs had_anyways. Well, this book Geo. had slipped me told where the boat with excel- lent culsine, whatever accessory that might be, was also going to tie up along side of Ceylon long enough to have & cup of tea, if nothing else. And we was also going to the Dutch East Indles. Well, naturally, I wasn't going on a trip like this one and then come back and admit to neighbors, such as that Joe Bush of the Hawthorne Club and his wife, that we hadn't met all the best people. So 1 got determined right then where I would get a Introduction somehow oOr an- other to Mocha and Java, the big coffee king: and The Sweh Dagon Pagoda, In Burma, too, a well known feller that was by the girl in Kip- ling’s poem, the Road to Mandy Lay. Yes sirree, when I got to Burma, I wasnt gonner bother with no ele- phants hauling teakwood, on account ever since 1 was about six annums old I been seeing elephants, better dressed elephapts, too, hauling drums, rolling barrels, and etc., each Spring when the Circus come to town, and now I yearly got to do the same thing by Junior. No, I had enough of elephants, when in Burma I was go- ing to meet that Sweh Dagon and with him stand, looking Eastward to the sea, like in the poem the feller ‘wrote. * Kk X ¥ VER in India there was a lot of prominent people that I figured on meeting, too, on account in Amer- ica, Americans are merely American: but abroad they are the equal of an: body and just a little bit better. So I-decided I would take a intro- duction to this guy Taj Mahal you hear such a lot about, and some oth- er native put-an-takes. And of course I also intended while in India to see the burning ghats, and it does seem-a mystery how the fire dept. don't put them out, but they have been going for yrs. Also I wanted to see a few curry trees and maybe bring back a leaf or two to press in my favorite book—Mrs. Roarer's Receipts. Then I thought maybe we could rescue a few of them poor beetles the natives chew up, and send them home to our missionary soclety, or the zoo, or someplace. Well any ways, that kinda finished up India, nd so I turned over this little book Geo. had left with me and found out where the boat .was going also to Egypt, where the pictures on the cigarette boxes come from. Well, of course that tickled me to deatl* pretty near, on account I would get a slant at King Tut and see was he really a dead one, or in- teresting, like he's been reported He was one royalty I could be dead certain I would be able to meet, and if I come home and mentloned that to Mrs. Joe Bush where 1 had met the King of Egypt, why I need not go into any particulars, and could leave her draw her own conclusions Then of course there was the Ww. k. pyramids, and the Camels and the date palms, so called on account that is where the natives make their dates, the same as the old apple orchards with us back home. I was real ex- cited over the thought, well, 1 will see them all, including Cairo, but that wasn't so much, I have often seen Cairo in the moving pictures, also this Sarrahrah desert they talk such a lot about. Why it ain’t nothing but a big beach the sea got tired of and quit, anyways. Believe you me, I seen Sheik pictures this last ve 1 was fed up. I wasn't going anywheres near that desert, or any Arabs, neither. I was gonner concentrate on buying a few of these frozen beetles they sell over there, called scabs, or something, and you can make them up into rings or scarf pins, but you don't haf to— unless of course, you see the one gave you the bug frequent. A £0 many * LL, anyways, it seems this float- ing palace with hot and cold run- ning water in every climate was next gonner stop at Naples, Italy. They got big Voleano in that town. Only after Naples, which the boat only stayed there long enough for the tourists to purchase a few yards of genuine native spaghetti, why the cruise with 400 first-class cabins moved on to Monte Carlo, where well known gambling hall is run, naturally I decided where George and 1 wwould stay on the boat while in port. On account my Uncle Will once had a ex- perience with Monte. He wasn't using his last name at the time, he was just plain Monte, and it was out West in the old days, and while he only used three cards, why Uncle Will ain’t been the same Since, and you know how them gambling fellers are. Adding on a and NEW YORK'S 500 GET ROYAL DECORATION Wallace To Editor The Star, who should print a few Murders in his Soclety Colum so it will give pleasure to all. EAREST SIR:—Hon. Jumbo Fatomato, Japanese supper- dreadnaught puggalist, ap- preach to my backyard ves- tdy a.m. expecting to borra a dime (0.108) for puppose of buying himself a shoeshine. “No Grecian shoepolish-man could get over your feet for that price of money,” I narrate. “It would cost eleyen (11) cents for material. Also you must pay for breakidge of chalr when you set down to be shined. T shall not loaned you that some of money. Why, I ask to know, you wish look so stylish & snapper all of a suddenly?” Jumbo Fatomato et down like a RI station while saying, “I wish go again and challindge Hon. Hairy Wills to a fighting match. If I go there with muddish spots on my feet- ware they will think I are not a nat- ural gentleman. “What difference will that make, if * 1 require. “Do mot enriched clothing and re- finery of collar & knecktic make all men_equal to anything in this free republick of America?” he chud. “Hushes!" T report. “Do not speak 80 loudly because your head will get chopped. This are not free republick. You are not even stylish 10 say so! “What are it then, if anyhow? exume. “Amerfca change her Govt. about Dec. 5,” I tell. “Nobody know about this axept a few million persons what was able to read the newspapers.” “What do Pres Coolldge say to such news?" require Jumbo with swollen look. “He have not heard about it yet.” I angle. “He are too busy to read annything but Congressional Record, s0 he still set in white House, think- are ruler of America. Poor He are so Inexperienced in icks that I are afraid he cannat an he “What happened to cause such a rumpage?” snuggest this chumplon whale-welght puggalist. “America have mot got a Zarina,” I photograph. “What are a Zarina?" tlonnaire. A Zarina are a ruler of Russia aid to go home,” T peruse. Are Trotsky a Zarina ignoral friend. “Not yet,” I develop. Yet he are a ruler of Russia afraid This from Jumbo Fato- b Jumbo ques- ask my mato. “You are talking “To be a Zari married t garbage!” I dib, a you must be a lady a Zar. If you wish me tell a Carlo to your name old dog good habits. Well, after this we was to bump into England for a minute, and then come home, and by now I had the entire trip planned oply for the nuisance of packing. When I commenced to think of that, I begun to wonder what would we do with the dog while we was gone, who would feed the canary, and hadn't we really ought to rent the house furnished during them months, and could I get Annie Gooch, our Southern mammy of 16 summers, to help me put it in order to rent, and by the time I had got this far I was absolutely exhausted, and had begun to wonder why they called it a pleasure trip, when George, who had all this time been talking on the phone, come in the room rubbing his hands with satis. factfon. Well girlie! he says, I put it over. That was old General Bluster on the phone just now, and I can have the lot at the right price. It's a wonder- ful investment for us, and I've told him Ill let him know definitely to- morrow. Now it's up to you—shall we buy that place or take the trip around the world? Take the house and lot, I says with a sigh of relief. I'm entirely too worn out to take that trip again just now. don’t teach a (Copyright, 1925) Irwin Tells Story in Letters of Japanese Schoolboy OTHING IS HVEARIT}LL’T SOUND OF KISS—KISS ON HAND.” you about this American coronation, then you must listen. If you do not, then let me talk.” * K kK JUMBO could mot think too therefore he remained stuck. “This Grand Duchess Cyreen, for such are her name, arrive of recently to America, leaving her husband, the Grand Dutch Cyreen, at a hotel in Parls where royal trunks is kept until pay-day. This Grand Dutch would of come also to be our just & merciful Zar but too busy plaving bridge to remember this unknown country. “Therefore this Grand Cyreen lady get her on boat & go to hotel. She scarcely took off her royal overcoat & puf on her royal kimono, when what she hear? Tap-tap by door! She were 50 excite that she forgot where she packed her crown 'So she rapidly stuck her head out of door, working quickly because some Russian patriot might be there to toss a bomb at her. But what she see? There was 500 Americans set- ting on their knees in front of her, naturally. “‘What wanted, if anything? she report with Romanoff on her voice. ‘O top-high Majestical!’ they holla in unicorn. ‘We are a Opera Club.' “‘Comic? she ask to know. ‘Grand * they explain. ‘We almost never go to a opera show unless it got a king & queen in it wearing a crown and spectre while singing with talent. Do you sing, yr Majestical? “We do not, narrate her, ‘but we could take lessons.’ ‘O yr Royal Majestical! they decry passionately, ‘we do not care so muchly about yr voice. There are several in Metropolitan Opera what could be umproved with a little prac- tice. But we come here, yr humble & dependent subjects, looking for a Queen to boss over us. Are you one 7 “‘Girls, I tell you how it is narrate Grand Duchess. ‘Cy—he are my hus- band I retain in Paris—say he could undoubtlessly go back to Russia & get crowned right away. But how would he get crowned? There are so many bricks now residing in Russia that I are afraid the time is either not ripe or too rotten. Howeverly, Cy and me are willing to hire out as King & Queen In any nation not hav- ing one (axept Mexico). Now, chil- dren, rise up Sir Knight & Sir Ladies. I make you all noble. If you will hire a hall next Wed night and borra a fast crown—my own was damaged in Cus- tom House—I and we will permit our- selves to become your Umpress or Zarina. Now run along, please. I got a date with, my dentist.’ * K Kk % “QO on Wed p.m. hall were hired & Gd Dutchess were there setting on one of the thrones what you see so frequent in hotel corridors. It were covered with a real ottonobile lap-robe. Those 500 Opera Clubbers passby Nothing i{s heard but sound of kiss-kiss on hand and swear-word of an Irish Police what was there to gard the door. fter that ce-cream & ham sand- wiches was passed while Her Royal Majestical stand uply & make speech from the throne. “‘Nobllity of our realm,” she com- menced, ‘I now and furthermore ap- point you First Families of America (several ladies fainted from siprise.) ‘To you all I give the Decoration of the Siberian Egg Plant. Hereafterly there shall be just 500—count 'em— 500 jennywine persons in N. Y. Societ “‘“The Imperial Duke Hall McAllis- ter were a more stingy queen that I are. He merely permit 400 N. Y. per- sons to get inside. But we must be more generous. 600 permitted. No bootleggers. & Before I close up, my faithful subjecks, I wish make a few laws. Never talk when yr mouth is full. Nevgr address a love-letter on a tipewriter. & when you go to thea- ters be sure to read What the Well Dressed Man Will Wear. That are about all I can think up now. You are permitted to kiss my royal hand (the left one, please) in passing out." When I denominate all those thoughts to poor Jumbo Fatomato, who are so scarce-brained he cannot read the Atlantik Monthly without a flashlight, he seem to get 80 Ibs. heavier. “I would not either Iive or reside in a place where I could not get in Society,” he gump. “I think I should move to Chicago, Philadelphia, Bal- timore & all points West.” “What good that do?" I snarrel. “Soclety are chosed by size of popu- lation. If N. Y. got 500 then Chica- g0 merely got 468. And so onwards down got one (1) feeling quite alonesome. If you think it difficulty to arrive in the NY 500 think how despairly hard it would be to arrive in the Medicine Hat One (1). | rectories to Medicine Hat which only | Soctety. “Now that America Kingdom (or a say with wisedon balls. “We must b about getting a Cou ‘What are a C looking sos. “A court are a place where you go by invitatiol by uniforms “Last tim t to Court it took 18 uniforms to get there,” gubble Jumbo. “30 days for steeling a ott mobile tire which T didn't d I thin America got 8 more Courts than she can use.” “Al, but this ¢ full of refinery tk mate. “Everybody wear s s & ers on comin, have a license nu First business of to make some t what as mnon snuggest, Jumbo “Sir Jno Den ready”; report Ju take a few more.” “Umpossible!” T dictate not belong to any Opera Clubs are true of Hon. Baby Ruth should be made Duke, b because he merely has joined z Club. Howeverly, 1 wish snuggest following t for g Drawing Room when it are held if anywher Commander of the Bathtubs, Mr. Mott; Knight of the Garters, Mr. Bo ton of Boston; Commander of the Faithless, D. Wolf Hopper; Superin tendent of Europe, Owen D. Young; Keeper of the Seals, Ringling Bros.; Gentleman in Waiting, Wm M. Ad have beco: Queendom),” both my urt?" require Jumbo urt will mors that,” I amalga- Hous r from 1 that Court les for Am Who would Fatomat 1d But must to 500. will be cans might “He do Same who Ball hux & shells! holla Jumbo when hear me said that, “you are making nobilities right and left without any regardless. You are making too many Dukes and Barons & Eels out- side the Circle. If we wish make American nobillousness we should select best people on earth instid of only a few who hapy to adore opera, grand and com “Maybe is” T torture. “But when a Zarina come to America she got no time to fool with Telefone Di- She got to hurry and make before going home. First come, first serve.” Hoping you are the same Yours truly HASHIMURA TOGO. (Copyright, 1925.) Chinese Children of ‘Kindergarten Age Work Many Hours a Day Silkworms Which Contribute to Commercial World Hatched in Human Incubators BY FRANK G. CARPENTER. WUSIH, China. AVE you ever heard of Wusih? I doubt it. Nevertheless, it is one of the live, up-to- date clties of the New China and it has been in existence for 900-odd years. Away back in the Middle Ages, when London was but a village, there was a thriving town here, hundred miles or o inland from the ocean. When the southern portion of the Grand Canal was built more than a thousand years ago, connecting Nang- chow and Hangchow for the purpose of giving the emperors an easier route to e latter Heavenly City, men were do. 2 business on this very spot. The cit rew with the business of the canal nd centuries ago it had its great all to keep out the robbers. Later the modern movement came fn and a railway was built connect- ing Shanghal and Nanking. It ran through Wusih and the old city took on a pew leass of life. That was only a few years ago as things go in hina, and now Wusih has 76 modern €actories. It has far outgrown its walls, 1S LOCATED IX THE HEART OF CHINA'S SILK INDUSTRY, g {and it has 300,000 people, and the people say it will continue to grow until it surpasses Soochow and becomes @ rival of Shanghal itself. I doubt its rivaling Shanghai, but it bids falr to become the Manchester of this part of the world. Wusth has all our modern improve- ments, such as electricity, wide streets, telephones and new schools. It has many of what the Chinese call modern buildings, including a large | public library which is free to the people, and has nearly 200,000 books. Adjoining the library are a beautiful public garden and park. The park is di- vided up into lawns by hedges of box- wood, and in it are a number of te houses extending along a canal or facing a pond, where one can sit with his friends and look out over the water. On the edge of this lake s an artifi- cial hill bullt up of rocks in an artis- tically rugged way. On top is a monument erected by one of the col- leges to alumni. This park and its landscaping adornments are all new. I understand that the women of | Wusth are much interested in schools, hospitals and welfare work, and that they are alive to the needs of the New China. This city is considered such a desirable place to live that some rich Chinese in America have bought a large tract of land near by. They plan to establish a model settlement planned after the towns of the United States, where they live when they have made their fortunes and come back to China to die. Wusth s situated in the heart of the silk district of China. The coun- try about it is well fitted for growing mulberries, and the whole country is covered with orchards devoted to the raising of food for the silkworms. You may ride for miles through patches of bushes about 10 or 12 feet in height, eqch covered with the green leaves for this vear’s sprouting. The trees are cut back every year and the sprouts which come out furnish the food which by way of the worms pro- duces the silk. The climate, which is warm and molst, not unlike that of Louisiana, is especially suitable for raising the AND THE SKYLINE IS NOW OF - )] PRy S worms and weaving silk. Wusih has now 18 great silk filatures, or fac- tories, where the cocoons are boiled and steamed and wound off into the beautiful skeins of silvery white varns used in our silk mills. In ad- dition to this there are thousands of houses, both in the city and country allke, in which silk is reeled off. Wusih has also great cotton mlills, operated by modern machinery, weav- ing mills, flour mills, knitting mills that make silk stockings, some of which go to the United States and Europe, and, indeed, so many fac- tories that their great white stacks vomiting smoke make a forest sur- rounding the town. * ok x % RISING out of the plain near Wusih is the beautiful mountain of Weisan, which these superstitious people believe guards the slik In- dustry. It is perhaps a thousand feet high and it commands the rich plain. At its foot gushes forth a stream of swater which is sald to be the second “most famous spring under heaven,’ and nearby are lovely gardens and temples. On a certain day each year thousands of women, thc wives and daughters of silk farmers, make pil- grimages to this mountain. Each woman has with her thousands of oggs of the silkworm, which she car- ries in her bosom under her clothes, where she hatches them out with the heat of her body. She believes that the spirits which inhabit the moun- tain will appreciate the worship shown in this vigit to their shrine and that the cocoons which are spun by the worms thus produced will be large and free from disease. During my stay in tne city I have been interested in seeing the silk- worms in their different stages of growth. They have to be fed regu- larly on the mulberry leaves from the time they are born. They go into one sleep after another, during each of which they shed their skins, and at the end they spin their cocoons. The feeding is done in rooms kept at an even temperature, the worms lving in baskets about three feet in dli- ameter and the mulberry leaves being laid on top. They eat right through the leaves and will consume a great quantity within a short time. When they are bf the right age and are about as long as my little finger and sometimes almost as big around they are ready to start “climbing the mountain.” This is the common ex- pression used here for spinning the cocoon. The “mountain” is a bunch of rice straw loosely tied In the center. This bunch is stood upon end and the worms dropped down between the straws. They climb to the top of the straws and there fasten one end of the silk threads from their mouths. Then they throw their heads back and forth as they pull out of their mouths the long, fine silk fiber and wind it about their bodies. A num- ber of worms is put in each bunch of straw, and at the end there is that number of cocoons, each with its worm inside. The cocoons are then taken out and, with the exoeption of fow laid aside for breediDg purs poses and’ laying eggs for the next |kettles were bare to the waist, and season, they are botled or cooked in ovens untfl the worms are killed. After that the cocoons are dried and put in bushel baskets to be taken to the market or to be used for spinning at_home. During my stay in Wusih I have visited some of the steam filatures— great modern factorfes in which the thread is unwound from the cocoons and spun into the yarn which forms the banks of raw sllk used in the factories of the world for making silk goods. The process is most interesting. One of the factories I visited lies on the banks of the Grand Canal some dis- tance outside the walls of the city. I had to take a steam launch to go to it, and I landed at steps leading into the factory. The establishment cov- ers more than eight acres and con- sists of several buildings of modern construction. All of the machinery is of the most modern type and is driven by steam, and the rooms are lighted at night by electricity. Iam told that the work often goes on for 14 hours per day, although the manager in- formed me that the regular schedule calls for only 11 hours. The silk co- coons are first put into copper Kettles about eight inches deep and as big around as a wash basin. After being soaked and steamed they are divided into lots of about 16, a thread of each cocoon being fastened to a silk-reel- ing machine which twists the whole 16 into one strand and so winds it that it comes out as yarn. The work of bringing the threads together so that they can be twisted Into one is done by Chinese women and girls of perhaps 18 years or older. This re- quires great care, and It takes ex- pertenced hands to do it. The cocoons are put into the steam kettles and stirred around by chil- dren. Some of those I saw at work did not reach to my waist, and scores were, I judge, not 8 years of age. Some of them seemed no bigger than American girls of 4, 5 or 6, and there were hundreds working who were much under 10. * ok K ok WISH I could show you these bables at work. Thelr regular hours of labor are, according to the manager’s statement, at least 11 every day. During this time they stand on their feet or sit on a bench before these scalding, steaming, hot kettles. All I saw were standing when I went through the factory, and not one stool was occupled. The water, fed into the kettles by pipes, is boiling hot, and a thick steam always rises from it. The girl bends over the steam, ladles up? score or more cocoons in a scoop from a basket on the floor and puts them into the water. She then takes a brush of stiff bamboo and stirs the cocoons around rapidly so that any lif in them is killed. The water softens the cocoons so that the &nds of the fiber spun by the worm may be picked up and reeled off into the 1f-strand threads I have de- soribed. Some of the little ones texding the clad only In trousers, stocking and cloth shoes. All worked busily, Of the hundreds of children I saw, not one was loafing or dawdling. As I went on the reason for their industry became evident. In each of the long workrooms, measuring several hun- dred feet from one end to the other, and walled on each side with steam kettles, two men clad In white walked up and down in the space between. They were the overseers, paid to watch the children and keep them up to their work. One’ of them carried a bamboo brush with sharp points which could be poked into the backs of the girls, and in the other hand a stick. I did not see either man pun- ish any girl, but I doubt not any shirking would bring them both Into action. I cannot hope to make you see what babies these children were. Some were hardly fit for the kindergarten, much less for school, yet there they were, toiling away through every hour of the sunlight 7 days of the Their only holidays come at New Year, when the factories of all China are closed for two weeks. As I watched the little ones at work the manager called my attention to the stools, which they were not using, and to the fact that the kettles of boiling water over which they were bending were 8o low that they could Stir the cocoons without reacking up. He said this made the work very much easler, and that in some of the | tactories the kettles were placed high for grown women, so that the little girls had to reach up to do their work. I asked as to the wages, and my guide told me that he overstated them when he said the women got 17 cents and upward a day, and the children 10 cents. This means that these bables were toiling for less than 1 cent an hour under the stick of the taskmaster, in an atmosphere much like that of a washerwoman's kitchen when she is boiling the clothes, It gave me a striking ex- ample of child labor in China. Wweek, and for 11 months of the year.) The yarn made beautiful, and as can be produced anywhere. The work seemed to be done efficiently. Every bit of yarn which goes through the mill is weighed by samples, each of which is as light as a lock of hair from the head of a baby, and the product is graded according to tests. I watched the weighing, which went on at the rate of a score samples per minute, the calling out the figures in rhythm, while a clerk wrote down. "I saw also machines wound off fine silk threads. I went into room after room where the cocoons which had been brought were stored in great baskets as big as a cotton bale and where they lay in huge piles on the floor. I asked as to the value of one of these containing perhaps fifteen els, and was told that the cocoons in it were worth about 800 taels, which equals something like $600. (Carpenter's World Travels, Copyright, in this factory is good, I judge, a8 or more weighers musical them which 1924.) “THE MOUNTAIN OF WEISAN, NEAR WUSIH, IS A SHRINE FOR THE WIVES AND DAUGHTERS OF SILK FARMERS. WHO VISIT IT O NCE_A YEAR. THEY CARRY THOUSANDS OF THE SILK-WO. EGGS, TO BE HATCHED OUT BY THE HEAT OF THEIR BODIES” :