Another street in the city is mainly given up to the making of pewter goods—ornamental incense howls, dishes with hot water jackets for holding meats or toast and various other articles of that nature, and here we find some very skilled workmen who turn out some very fine workmanship. The products can be obtained at a most moderate cost—if you know the lingo and are wily enough at hi gaining. The writer knows of one case where a pewter hot water dish was sent to a person in England as a present. Owing to the carelessness of a servant the article got damaged. A firm that was asked to repair the dish estimated it would cost five pounds to put the damage right. The dish itself had cost about three dollars Wuchang. Considering that the ing and is carried on by women and girls. The worker sits in front of a basket arrangement about 25-ft high and shaped somewhat like a truncated cone about a foot in diameter at the base and about six inches diameter at the top. Hanging outside are a number of reels of cotton which the worker mani plates at a very quick rate passing them over and under one another the string of braid passing down through the centre of the basket arrangement. The operation needs to be seen to be fully appreciated. It is beyond the capabilities of a mere man to enter into the techni-colitics of the operation.
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