The riesha and the bicycle have evidenuy come to stay. Lhe latter is now everywhere where it's use is possible, and novices getting a first lesson and having their first spills are a, common sight in cities and villages where rubber tyres were never heard of hai a dozen years ago.
The -Shansi ricsha, too, has become very quickly a feature of the province or at least that portion of it where the main motor road or its branches have penetrated. There are cities 30 or more Ji from new thoroughfare now having their ricsha stands and finding a growing demand, even on unprepared tracks, The Shansi_ ricsha puller seems to have come under the spell of the province and though the better men are from Chihli, Honan er Shantung, rather than natives of the province, they mostly carry an air of respectability about them. Their clothes are usually good with a good deal of up-to-date-ness about them. A good deal of their vocabulary has been acquired from the student class, and they speak of their calling and things pertaining thereto in modern terms.
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