Show The Frugal Chinese 0 far as the frugality of Chinese is concerned s SO nothing is wasted in China Even the dirt of oi the street is sold to farmers who turn it t i tinto in into to a fertilizer Prices of dirt vary in their kinds The ash of burning wood from a cooking stove of a Chi Chinese nese family has hns n a good value It brings a good amount of tea money to the house boy of a big bib Chinese family who sells it to gardeners for fer fer- j fer-j flow flower er plants When a peculiar cry is j heard the house boy seems to tt understand that an ant antash f fash ash buyer buer has come Immediately a big quantity i I o of kitchen dirt and stove ash which he has hns stored up is brought to the buyer Thirty pounds of the waste material of this kind cost about 10 or orf 15 cents Durin During the last few years ears the demand of waste foreign magazines pamphlets newspaper newspapers etc has been exceedingly great among the Chinese Chi CM nese who ho buy different kinds of veryl very old foreign magazines nearly at third one-third of what they cost originally Their use probably is to tomake tomake tomake make soles for sandals for the poorer classes ol of oil Chinese to wear in place of shoes in good weather If the waste magazines contain some somo war war pictures they will be applied to better use than thai tiun making of sandal These people arc are t too poor to get themselves edu educated and since they do donot not know how to read and write the best way for them to get et some knowledge of world affairs seems to be through the medium of tho the pictures picture in foreign magazines Many scavengers buy such j things thing from the house bo boy of foreign residents Another interesting collection of waste mate mate- d vial rial in Shanghai alone has brought not a small amount of money to many poor children and women women This is the collection of cigarette end ends After Arter filling a tin of about two inches in in diameter diame diame- r ter and four inches deep it is brought to a n native tobacco factory which buys it for five or seven r cents cent The factory this tobacco o into cigarettes and thus makes a good profit out OU put of the material which it buys at such a low Jow price |