From Oum Own CORRESPONDENT
Chengtu, June 12, Better than the daily paper for news and gossip and more, entertaining than the movies is the talk and chatter of the teahouse.. No subject is too great or foo trivial for discussion. Domestic worries, business affairs and national problems are reviewed and solutions arrived at in the teahouse and all the while the atmosphere of leisurely comfort prevails—just to be there and sip mild tea in a gently reclining bám-boo chair where class, caste, sex and fashion. lo together but nothing - predominates or inferiérés with the leisure and happy chatter of the teahouse; even ihe-seat of the story-teller is given but mild attention.
Famines, drought, floods and crop failure are little known or their.00 hardships felt.
In enduiring about crop failures on the Chengtu plain this information was readily given. A youth said that "In the memory of his grandfather now 70 years old the ancestral farm had never known lure, regularly it had produced its two crops yearly with usually M vegetables or tobacco in addition, as surely as the flood gates of Kuan-shan were opened every springtime so -just as surely were the waters of the irrigation ditches ample to supply the needs of the rice and wheat fields."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.