Round the side are little booths where you can get letters written for you by Chinese scribes, and suppose you correspond with your ancestors, anyway the priests burn-edi the letters after they were carefully written. Paper money is for sale inside the temple and in one of the little ante-rooms we saw a sociable tea-drinking party. Chivese men and' women of all classes, so far as I can judge from their clothes, were burning candles and bowing there, and way up front, at one side of the furthest altar, one old woman was shaking the fortune telling bamboo sticks. You have a flock of these long sticks in a tin can effect, all with Chinese characters written thereon. You say your prayers and shake the can till a stick drops out and then the priest interprets it and you find out whether this is your lucky day or not and what to do about it. There's an English edition of thi magic gotten out by an enterprising dealer, I believe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.