Another thriving factory—hats—has been running but barely four months. Two Shantung hatters are the only experts in the place, but the rapidity with which the complete article is turned out shows the aptitude of the apprentices. These ure men and women. I have never seen the "Singer" worked more rapidly than over these hat shapes The straw strand-plaits are hand-looms (yea, even secretly working these through the hottest of the boycott) so the Chinese are taking to foreign machinery in the silk trade. The result is a greater varity of combinations of colour and design. At present the engines are run by oil, but electricity is bound to come, to judge by the rapidity with which we have spread the radius of __electrically-lighted streets.
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