A lipstick as a test of poverty may cause the wncu guid to sneer, and yet it is no bad criterion by which to estimate the most distressing of conditions, People used to refinements will even go without meals to get them, and these girls may have given up much to obtain the small portion of red unguent with which to satisfy the desire to obtain things as they always wanted them. Poverty is far more a tragedy to such people than to those unaccustomed. to little beyond the bare. business of living. They don't tell you these things unless you gain their confidence, and if then you offered to relieve their necessities for the time being you would damage their pride and even insult them. They smile through it all and wait for better times, keeping peace with the Chinese -authorities and dreading the possible advent of their own Red countrymen. They are brave to the uttermost and if conditions get too bad, there is always the sungari which almost daily takes a toll of those who have had hope beaten out of them.
(To be Continued.)
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