Everything from Fried Fish to a Funeral Wreath "Darwin could have found an excellent illustration to describe the survival of the fittest" if he had visited the Hongkew market just shortly after daybreak. The vendors, coolies, etc, raised more Cain than the echoes from the "monkey" trial in Dayton, Tennessee. If one's ears are sensitive to noi the writer suggests that the new water and sound proof stoppers be used.
Those of us who actually do our marketing there go shopping after nine a.m. The Hongkew market is really a wonderful institution, everything can be purchased from funeral wreath to a cooked herring. The place depicts ancient and mod ern material necessities to a tea.
There are shops that exhibit eatables that are dear to the heart of every known nationality. The Germans have a remarkable meat shop while the Japanese offer different kinds of fish; these are fried before the purchaserers over a gate of hot coals. Sometimes when there aren't For instance, when I visited the market the other morning, one parti Calar thing that caught my eye "as '4 Chinese of uncertain years reclining among his wares, With a flowing beard he could have been a patriarch of old with modern cigarette amber holder between hi 'AIL the while taking deep surveying the to be customers in a most patronizing way. His canopy was @ mixture of oranges and bananas while two huge baskets of native fruit avera the arms of his chai Tt is impossible to say that this fund that cost so and so. I went there to "look see" and not to buy and enjoyed myself tremendously jin bargaining. I have made inquiries and found that if one goes a motor car the price is extrem ely high: in a riesha not $0 high and. if one goes on foot. commonsense prices can be mentioned, Again, if one is fortunate enough speak Chinese real bargains can be had. Small wonder that the housewives let the cook do the marketing, even if we suspect he is making a bit of squeeze on the side, The ese themselves pay ten cents for Ser moos thing "ey bar oe rey ents or more. It: probably all simmers down to who lasts the longest in the bargaining; the for-ign housewife or the merchant? Bargaining in China is half the fun and the Chinese expect i and we, the longer we stay here, love it 'They have scales of their' own without study one cannot appreciate how they function. Some folks take seales of their own, and by this method they can judge just" how much they are getting for their dollar's worth.
All in all the market resembles those we have at home. There are any cooked fish for sale a newly fried fish will be wrapped in a piece of newspaper and to" the buyer. The cooker is shirtless and reminds one of a cook who knows how to do his job comfortably, Police guard the whole area, There are shops that look and give out the appearance of home shops. Al in all there is a prevailing air of cleanness and freshly washed concrete. But there are many flies, In America and from what I have understood of England the sweets that the Chinese advocate are not accepted by the foreigners. One most. impressing variety looks like American Easter eggs, but are huge balls of the Chinese sweets; mixtued with a pinkish tinge. But the foreign buyer should beware of them.
T have visited many markets and in all of them one has the feeling of fields and the harvest ing of vegetables and fruits. In spite of this freshness of newly made things, one should take the ordinary precautions, that is throughly to boil all vegetables and wash all freit in boiling water, A doctor told me the other day that it was not necessary to wash fruit in potassium manganate because boil-better germ killer Even oranges should ting or peeling them any germs that
Ting can easily contaminate may be on the outside Crom hand: 0 fruit, The things we particul din the markets are the fre ables and fruits and the Hongkew Tnarket has a large and. yana. as:
One thing that fascinated wore shoe-attingrlooking ropes (lat Sue not. stringly) and odd faking Slabs that emtned one of pieces of oe leather, On ingiring T found stalls and signs above them (sometimes in German or a language thi some of us cannot read) procla ing the wares for sale. In sever stalls huge signs signifying that ice was for sale caught my eye and on investigating T found that the amount of ice purchased was cut off with a huge rusty buck saw. and ave an import= fant item ena Chinese mena.
"To go back to my opening sene and put forth the idea of of the fitest" T can truthfully any, Go to Hongkew mare and ay & peand; one can Rose ten or more in Going 80cm there are a good many little access: sories which make big differences. Velvet is being used as a trimming, and some of the V necks are outlined rather effectively wi The new raisin colour has a character all its own, and its use, chiefly in ace, reminds one of the mass of stalks and fruit in the almond and combination. A good many dresses have low shoulders like those of the Victorians, which alters considerably the neck-line, so much curtailed in front during. the past years. Red shoes appear here and there with black dresses They may have a gold line round the top, which makes them attrac.
Some of them are made to fasten definitely on one side. Little coats continue to be worn, and efforts are made to preserve' them from being too comfortable, which is to say trampish, by making them very definitely not for warmth. As 'a rule they are very loose and occasionally beaded, and they swing back from the shoulder under the arm, looking almost like the folds of a short cape behind.
The shiniest possible white satin continues to be used to throw up the full effect of sunburn. It is and makes the necks formerly so desirable Took almost anwmic, The necks and armholes are very. severe in generally being edged with piping in order to obtain the greatest amount of contrast. Allover pleating is used for dinner dresses, less to suggest pleating than to give the dress a curious effect of elasticity. Very small pleats are used from the neck downwards. These are often erossed with other pleats round the hips, while the skirt, generally with an regular edge, is made again of the downward pleats, Sometimes only the bodices are cross-pleated, and the skirts, by contrast, left very full and flowing. The convolvulus skirt is often made effec tive by means of very tight hips and by a scalloped edge which emphasizes the folds. As a rule the back is slightly longer than the front, but the dress is cut so evenly circular that the folds are as gular as sculpture—From the Pat correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian."
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