Evening News" publishes fan amusing paragraph this week about Miss Gordon, the artist, when she endeavoured to paint a groop of houses in Peking. A crowd col lected to watch her, and of course obstructed her view, but, as the could not speak Chinese, she could only wave them aside, which, however, only made them gather the more. Eventually she had to give tip, bat she was not discouraged altogether, and the next day made another attempt, A crowd quickly gathered, as before, including two Policemen with drawn swords and threatening manners, Know! there was no harm in sketching, a Chinese who could speak English Explained that, while it was true there was no law against sketching, it was a punishable offence to collect crowd!
(One of her quecrest_ experiences was in Japan. On meeting a jolly man with a_rather wonderfal snd! interesting head, she got him to sit for her. Alas, he took himself vey' seriously at once, and the wonderful smile was gone. Miss Gordon tied hard to win back the smile, int not until she made funny noise did she sneeeed, and then her success was overwhelming. The Tnughed at her minows, crows and dog-barks. He summoned his friends to enjoy the and before Miss Gordon had camplezed her picture a small crowd arcas holding its sides over the farms gard {mitations of the supposedly nad' Englishwoman, Miss" Gordon calls this portrait, "A" Japanere Toke."
Peace and Reconstruction ted atthe annual wf the British National tee of the International Chamber of Commerce, yesterday, that a small committee of the In: ternational Chamber ix in collabor= aivion with Chinese business. inter= Gy, tw prepare a report on the ccuremie situation in China. Tt yas hoped to secure the establishment tional committer 10 peace snd reeon~
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