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Show Chinese Satire. . In his recent book on "China and the Chinese" Dr. Giles tells of a very stingy Chinaman who took a paltry sum of money to an artist payment Is always exacted in advanco and asked him to paint his portrait. Tho artist at onco complied with tho request, re-quest, but when the portrait was finished fin-ished nothing was visible save tho back of tho sitter's head. "What does this mean?" cried the sitter. Indignantly. Indig-nantly. "Well," replied tho artUt, "I thought a man who paid so llttlo as you paid wouldn't caro to show his face." |