As there is a conventional method of furnishing the Chinese home, whether the income is twenty dollars or two hundred thousand dollars a month, these families employ it to the best degree their funds permit. On the back wall it is customary to hang a scroll representing the god or goddess to which the home pays homage, usually the goddess of Mercy, Kwan Yin, or a scroll presented by a friend or relative at the New Year bearing characters of felicitation or quotation from the classics. On the left wall hangs a series of scrolls in hand-writing and on the right a series representing the scenes of some story or play. As learning take precedence over everything else, and the left is the side of honour, it is fitting that the scrolls bearing hand-writing should 0ccupy the left. Anyone hanging them differently would instantly reveal his ignorance of the proper thing. These scrolls cost from few coppers to hundreds of dollars
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.