Wuhu (Anhui province of China).
Certainly Havkow is a" interesting place. It is packed as tightly as the often quoted barrel of herrings, and has a main street about four miles long. where, if you are saved the danger of being run over by cabs, you have infinite chances of being crushed to death between sedan chairs. It an ant-hole of traffic. Running at right angles you find whole streets devoted to the manufacture of pipes, coffins, antiquities, and tea chests, and when the iuhabit ants of any thoroughfare lack particular way they should go. The Viceroy of the occupation they devote themselves to the twin provinces of Hupeh and Hunan, not rearing of fluffy-headed things called babies. to be behind in good works, started a There are more babies grown to the square similar institution on Confucian principles, acre in Hankow than any other city in the as a set-off to the Catholic, a year or two world. The scriptural injunction, "Be! ago. But the foreigners are ensy victors, fe ital and multiply and replenish the although the izuorant Hankowese do firmly earth," has been zealously obeyed. And as believe that the little ones are kidnapped far a5 personal experience goes, i is about for the sole parpose of turning their eyes the only scriptural injunction that has been into photographic chemicals, their teeth obeyed by China, or, indeed, any nation. into cures for pains across the back, tight-Anyhow, Hankow is a busy centre in no-s of the chest, slackness of the stomach, the children line. The Roman Catholic and housemaid's knee, and their ears into missionaries devote much of their time lan ointment that makes the foreign bar-scouring round with baskets for stray chifd- parians see double and ride bicycles. ren, They have an asylum where, when! You have only to wander casually we were in Hankow, there were over a/ through that four miles of main street, thousand off-cast Chinese youngsters, who letting your eyes drop cursorily into th were being fed, clad, and trained in the eternity of shops, and you will soon begi
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