Show PASS SUMMER IN TEMPLES peking custom of which the only merit Is assurance of absolute peace and quiet quiel temple parties constitute a popular form of diversion for the summer months in peking the hills to the westward are dotted with so called temples rambling compounds of one story buildings buitt centuries ago by emperors in memory of departed ancestors ce the buildings invariably surround a paved court or often a series of such courts shaded ns as a rule by century old trees in the temple proper Is still to be found a gigantic buddha or idol before whom joss sticks are lighted at intervals by priests and acolytes of whom there are generally a half dozen all told occupying a portion of the compound it Is quite easy and inexpensive to secure the use of one of these temples one or more of the unoccupied subsidiary buildings tor for a weekend week end a week or the whole summer they are entirely vilt vi hout furniture except insofar as a raised platform whereon the chinese used to sleep might be called furniture once installed the occupant enjoys absolute pence peace and quiet by day As a rule he sleeps in the company of one of the lesser budihas Cudd Budd has who Is hidden behind a curtain the only intrusion upon hj hi privacy occurs when the priest or acolyte brings food and places it before the idol and returns later to remove what the rats have left of it it A number of the in have their temple leased year after year and pass the summer there F for or the novice owing to the general lack of everything that makes for comfort once Is enough it Is a thins thing however that everybody must do once |