By Vera Kelsey. while she paints a picture of what it means to be the mother of a growing girl in China. The working girl, it seems, is considered poor but hardly honest, and the mark of toil even though as invisible as smoke at a fire sale, has a similar effect. in lowering the value of the goods. If you are a proper and ambitious mother, therefore, you. will emulate the profiteer in setting and maintaining a top price So, many nights amah's eyes "have make spoil' from) too much fiddling with a file, and she distributes her buffer impartially between knuckle and wrist.
A Human Dianoxo.
Actual conversation, however, is not so simple as this sounds, for amah in addition to owning a bizarre collection of English (she may be quite familiar with pelican but unaware of dog), talks through closed teeth so rapidly that one could mistakes her for a diavolo. We might illustrate the old tale of the hare and the tortoise had the tale ended in the logical way, for she reaches the goal and returns to run wide circles about us, while our slow wit lumbers to its feet.
you can picture a woodsman recumbent in a sedan chair hunting a rocky mountain goat as it leaps from crag to crag, you have certainly been Jistening in on our discussion of democracy. Democracy that is, according to amah, "Suppose all man can do, can do. Suppose all men no can do, more proper, savvy-man talked other man, how fashion can do."
Amah after a swift glance at the subject whether it be food or theology, expresses all her reactions simultaneously. "Then we explain what we think she means by what she has said.. Then she explains what she thinks we think she means by what we said we thought she said Having thus cleared the ground, she explains just what she said. And we gather that the foreign practice of sending an ill man to the hospital to live or die, is less to be preferred than the Chinese practice of bringing in the coffin. Or that foreign missies' manner of smoking without inhaling is a waste of money and play-play.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.