The Archive · 1920

Exquisitely Fashioned

The smaller articles are such as receptacles for pens, etc., on study tables, all kinds of fower-pots round, square, and elongated, of desired shape or size; cylinders holding umbrellas, ete., plaques with ornamental characters, boards (of mud) with characters written and baked in them, for scrolls, door ornaments, tablets. One may an old Taoist priest true to the life, sitting on a stump of a tree, but these are note costly. (The aller articles are sold ata dollar or more for one or even foi pair). The consummate skill shown not merely in the moulding. there is none such! This fact shows that no attempt is made to push the business, though it is said that the wares sometimes penetrate even anghai through enterprising If generally known, there would probably be a great demand for them, modesty the Bane of Profit.

Mr. Yang, who is only about 50 years of age, holds a bronze" medal of the third class from the Bana Exposition, together with an engrave ed certificate, and another medal from the Board of Agriculture und Commerce (which at that time sent his goods to Panama), and_ its certificate.

His trade circular for distribution merely alludes to these into! esting successes without exploiting them as a Westerner would he tain to de. In this circular Mr.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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