For all of this democracy' is responsible and there is no reaction and no protest. One feature of the new architecture has, however, ab last shocked the conservative Peking ese mind and it is a feature which the foreigner would; never guess, not even the foreign resident of Peking. Doors and entrance gates are now being built in the centre of the new house fronts. This is a radical departure from custom because it is a mark of disrespect to the Emperor, but a still more radical departure is the occasional opening of an entrance on the left hand side of the house, as you face it from the street, in of the right, becaus> this is open defiance of the spirits. Such violations of tradition are now very numerous, but the conservatives cannot get used to them and comment with much more bit-torness upon these radicalisms than upon the substitution of semi-foreign architectural atrocities for old mansions and palaces, or upon the removal of a city gate tower which the police department sees fit to sell for the almost priceless "nan-mu" timbers in it. Taste does not revolt in Peking under the worst Jimpositions, but superstition does.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.