In these democratic days, we all dislike the word ''monopoly," and in its closing years the East India Company made many enemies. In 1820 the sands of time were running out; the demise of the Company was within sight. But always the servants of the Company conducted themselves in an honourable manner. They were invariably men who were patriots in the true sense of the word. Staunton and Morrison Were great men who exerted a pursuits. He thoroughly deserved the great honour of an Oxford LL.D. Dr. Morrison was, at times, more pathetic figure. He was a great man, but he suffered im both in body and in mind. His memoirs make the modern reader sad. He was so full of the hell-fire' and the wrath of Jehovah sort of religion. But for all his morbid thoughts he was a worker and a martyr. His wonderful distionary was the first great effort to interpret the East to the West. We have the feeling that Dr. Morrison toil terribly." And above all else was a bigot, but that "he could
he was magnificently unselfish. He, too, was a patriot by conviction. He believed firmly in the mission of the British.
The old Hongs"' at Canton have since disappeared; the old life has profound influence in China. There}faded.
Now we live under much can be no doubt that the Chinese|more comfortable conditions id respected them both.
They blazed|China.
Shameen and Hongkong the trail for the many thousands of Britons who have lived in China during the last 100 years. They are typical of the two classes of men who journey out from the British Isles to China, viz., the traders and the missionaries. They were fine types, each of his own class. it George Staunton was a man of wide interests who served "the Company' faithfully but who devoted his leisure to scholarly offer very different social life to that of the old ''Hongs'' at Canton. No European women were allowed in Canton in those days. Now we play mixed foursomes on the various gold courses of South China and ride in luxurious motor-cars with our partners to the well kept golf courses. And we have books, newspapers and al! sorts of interests of which they knew nothing in ''the good old days'' of 100 years ago. lace-making. From this time on the Manufacturer, "Shiny thread," Ince industry became important. owing to its bright silvery lustre. In addition to the silk lace which! Point venice is another kind made was made of entirely Chinese silk,|by using a knitted mesh and then the thread lace was also introduced ¢mbroidering with a needle in much in 1904. The thread, both cotton and the same way as the filet lace, only linen, and the patterns come ex- that Fil @'Irlande Brillante should clusively from England and France. be used instead of the ordinary there are the duny, the filet, the 1is manufactured in Swatow.
Besides the above-mentioned laces|thread. The so-called Swatow lace
crochet, the point venice, and the Handicraft.
Swatow laces. The finest of all comes from Chingchou in the Tsi-As yet no factories can be found nan district of Shantung, Chibsia, ho cee anywhere in China however, is still a great centre though the lace industry is rapidly places of the place. yielding fully 50 per cent. of the Pgs Shanghai and|that the practice of supplying It has been found Swatow are now gradually coming thread to the workers and paying into the market. them for their labour is being introduced by some small exporting The duny and torchon laces are firms, but it has not proved a suc-; made by fastening the designs 0M cess owing to the difficulty of imjo cushion especially made for the porting foreign threads. The usual! purpose, and us ing the same meth way now employed is for brokers to las in the making of bobbin lace by furnish the nets and the patterns to hand. These two kinds have found the manufacturers to have the lace la great market in Australia and made at a certain amount and than America. The filet lace is made by to sell the finished lace to the ex-using a net which is spread over a porters. Usually for embroidering frame. The pattern is embroidered a piece of fine net, size about four with a needle. Filet lace was intro- foot long and a foot and half wide, duced only about seven years 880, the worker receives a dollar and the Seah kina of aw lace. tu, arealh e ae Gla ier nae done an ins a ae Bros thread. As to the selling price it 2 made in Kiangpeh, a district north upon its cleanliness, of the Yangtze River, but the finer evenness of pattern, nets come wed ie See and workmanship, and also the France and Japan.
See h; kinds of thread with which it is Shang i, made Yrely 9, hel made, "The ow and fancy pao schools are =e quantity a tae aaa the grail of its quan-remote the ularity og COMparative tity requires rea ill to judge Crochet appeared two years ear- while its appearance nobody can lier than the filet. It is made with fail to observe. a hook. The best thread for this} In 1918 the total value of lace ex-kind of lace is the Fil d'Irlande ported from China was Haikuan Brillande, a French thread, which Tls. 954,713 while in 1919 it amount-is generally called by the local ed to Haikuan Tls. 2,080,591.
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