Reverence written paper," and the collection of written scraps by paid scavengers throughout China takes us back to Mongoloid Chal-(prior to 3,800 8.C.) when tablets were carefully collected and deposited in a " lit ary storehouse " (4 9% in Chinese) and thus may be dug up to this d There are many other interesting show-cases in this vast museum, but I recognize the fact that Shanghai is not all of it Museum Road; and emulating the wisdom of that Western sage Sam Weller in his letter-writing, 1 had better end here before your exalted appetite for antiquities shall have been satiated.
Tun greater proportion of the lace exported from China is made in Chefoo, although the industry SE oth inane in Shanghai has been growing in recent years. The figures for 1918 show total exports of lace valued at approximately $1,319,000, of which 77.4 per cent. went to Australia, 9.2 per cent. to Great Britain, 3.1 per cent. to Hongkong, and 1.5 per cent. to the United States. In the same year $626,842 worth of lace was imported, of which 37.7 per cent. came from Great Britain, 99.7 per cent. from Japan, and 25.9 per cent. from France.
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