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Show OBSERVES CHANGES IN CHINESE PEOPLE Miss Mary Dorr, Just in From Hongkong, Hong-kong, Describes Experience in Oriental Travels. Some marvelous changes in the ancient an-cient customs of the Chinese people are taking place, even in the interior of China, according to Miss -Alary Dorr, comedienne, who arrived yesterday and i registered at the Hotel U"tah. prepara-tary prepara-tary to appearing on the Orpheum circuit cir-cuit here. Miss Dorr left Hongkong November 1 last, after having made a trip to Canton, Can-ton, in the interior, and visiting a number num-ber of Chinese villages around Canton. She declares that while she was on her trip she did not see a Chineso with a queue, and the small feet, produced by tight bandaging, have disappeared. Miss Dorr says that these two ancient characteristics of the Chinese man and woman are apparently a thing of the past, and they are beginning to become modern in their manners and dress. Most of them now go barefooted or wear wooden sandals, but there is no more bandaging of feet and the men wear their hair trimmed as Americans do. Miss Dorr says that the troubles that rended the interior of China and practically prac-tically the whole of the nation but recently re-cently have apparently ben settled, and while she was there she saw no indication indica-tion of trouble at all. It is perfectly safe to go to Canton now aud to travel with a guide through the city and the surrounding territory, though there are still evidences in the city of bandit . raids and guerrilla warfare, in the form of sanuuag fortifications, wnioh the foreign for-eign population erected for protection to themselves. She says that moat of i the trouble around Canton was caused by bandit bands that fell to fighting a" ong themselves and unally exterminated extermi-nated themselves. |