Day after day we jolt in our ricshas, up and down the Nanking Rosd—a Bond Street among Chinese thoroughfares, we recollect—and at all hours it ix still the same airless jostle of humanity on road, on pavements, in shops, in the balconies of every house. Here is a Chinese eating-house, its clients almost pushing each other out on to the foot path, and horribly suggestive, as they cluster round the cooking pots, of flies on a bit of garbage. Here are Chinese barbers; every stool has its occupant and the floor apace is thick with those who wait their turn, Here are drapers, grocers, ironmongers, fruiterers, all sorts of shops, all unthinkable kinds of produce, and leaning over every little counter, like ernws on " bough, half a dozen or more semi-naked shopmen,—althon, at Home one man and a boy aight run the business of the whole house, Ovewsionally the carriage or sedan chair ich Chinese passes alony the road. in it is noticeable who wear that gown without which no well-to-do or self-respecting (Chinese cares to be seen abroad, Nearly all the crowd, at least in summer time, wear only shirt and trousere—the majority not xo much.
This observation coupled with others, make which one need not from the office window, teaches one to see a new significance in the production of so much human flesh. For there are huge bales of merchandize drawn, not by horses, but leash of coolies: there the road being mended, and it is human ninsele, for afoam, that drags the roller: apd if the garer at the office window ses hat lift a finger, there are twenty ricsha coolies to spring up fro utter and take him whither he ing less than a penny Also the observer "No. 1 boy" "passing rich" on fifteen dollars a ninth (and "the squeeze"): and that the enolic appears to do all the work of the house for nine! He understands why the written Chinese sign for int one mouth one field." How "happiness" means in literal trans-
me and pathetic " prayer to set inst our foolish ideal of one man one vote!"
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