government aid is developing.
Weddings and Funerals differ so much that there is talk of government regulation. Respeciable /men and women are more and mose. seen together in public. Young. People especially enjoy the new and draw up a very rough. balance-sheet of what Poking has lost. or gained, since it has ceased be the capital.
A foreign visitor who retuned to Peking after say an absence of two jor three years might perhaps notice some marked changes, in the external aspect. of the city, but it is Jdoubiful whether the Chinese resi-Jdent of the "hutungs" would do these famous "hutings" being the Side-streets in which about ninety er cent. of the population of Pek: ing still live, To tell of definite Che news about it from leaking out, Many Chinese have assured me that the' noticeable inerense in the Population of Peking. is not solely fne to the Manchurian refugees, but also, toa large part, to the fact that the wealthier households have been' moving into town from their homes in the surrounding country on account of the insecurity of the last few years. And nowadays you hear foreigners asking, whether safe to visit, the 'Western Hills and even Patachu, a group of temples on the outskirts of these-hill about two hours' drive from the
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