(Continued from page 520.) woman, She may be dirty, unwashed and uncombed to begin with but she does not remain so long. The young Chinese husband "may have lett a Young wife in Huhsien or Chenyang hear Sian and when he marries the young Tibetan irl ho wants her to be clean and tidy ike his Shensi wife. "But the asset in the Tibetan wife is her knowledge of the Tik language, The nomad enters the Chinese " business house with his precious bundle of musk and the nice, neat, wells trimmed Tibetan lady levites him to sit down, Lao San's wife the art of busines and very #00 the Shens! merchant feels he ablishment have gone under. Taxation, extortion and forced loans have made tt impossible for them to carry fon. Such firms as Teh Tal-ho, Shih Feng-ho, and Fu Hsin-teh ' have ceased to function and with their passing the frontier is poorer millions of dollars. And" no. new firms arise to take their place. These three well-known rms had large connections with Shanghai and their own agents sold musk at the Coast.
The Sian merchants In Tachienlu seemed to take very little interest the recent revolt. Inasmuch as Holong, Hsiaokeh, Chutch, Mao Tse tong and Hsw Hsiang-chien had been all round. them. in Sikang and paralyzed their business here, somehow it did not seem strange that they should do the same thing in (heir own province of Shensi. 'The Lao. 'Sans' suffered considerably throughout Sikang and when they heard that the Communists were surrounding Sian they accepted it as a matter of course.
The Young Marshal and Yang Tue chen, as faras the Lao San is concerned, are mere names in the present drama, This keen merchant {rom Shensi believes the sun will shine again, the scenes will change, the actors will wear a different. dress, assume another role and business will probably proceed as usual. A deep Student of history, the Lao San Knows his country has weathered many' a'stofm, and will continue. to do s0; and in this belief he carries on.
Buyers Withdrawn from Interior The New Year finds him fung off expensive fire crackers, banging. his longs, beating his symbols, enter~ tuluing his (lends and looking forward fo better things. "Many of these Sian firms are now closing up business inthe Interior and leaving it entirely to the Tibetans to bring their merchandise to Twchienlu, AS a rule the Tibetans are well armed And mounted and able to protect themselves when attacked by rob: bers. During the present disturbed and uncertain conditions this seems the wisest thing to do. And ifthe Tibetan loses anything—well he loses im his own country and (tis up him to recover it 'Tachienlu seems crowded with Incarnations at the present time. Some have come up from China and others have come down from 'Tibet and among them ig a charming, young, Daungarian princess who is' proving quite an attraction on the streets the "city." Dehchen Wangmo is her ame and her home is up in Kana Bromine next month, Formosa will forbid Chinese residents there to study their own language, accord Ing to a report from Foochow - ap= pearing in the "China Times." Ho ever, og a result of repeated protests, from the Chinese authorities, the order may be withdrawn, Chafing or Cuticura
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