In Nanning we are never in danger of starvation. There is always a job for the hungry and the out-of-work, The writer was once la his travels in a far distant market town and was discoursing in the public thoroughfare on the Parable of the Prodigal Son. He described with harrowing details the plight of that foolish youth. He had left his family, lost his friends, had no and was hungry—What could he do!".. Here the dramatic pause was broken by a matter-of-fact small boy in the crowd who remarked, "He could carty a chair!"
Tue Prive or Tue Tows.
"Carrying a chair" was evidently the last resort in that district!
Here we have a better way of keeping off the pangs of starvation and in which old and young can participate. For our crackers are famous, and are sent all over the world wherever the Chinese are found. No crackers make such even explosions, and none others can make the red paper fly in all directions. Of*course that is what we Nanningites say The cracker factories are scattered throughout the town and though there are constant accidents and periodic fires. destroying neighbouring houses, the people take the risk as a matter of course, and do not insist on the "dangerous industries" having buildings apart.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.