| Show THE TEEN SET Careers in Orient Are Necessity for You Young ng Set Sep By BETTY BETZ SHANGHAI This SHANGHAI This is the real city of the orient and everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where you look there are kids playing or begging in the streets or trying to earn money selling cheap toys bananas live birds buttons or gaudily painted paint paint- ed plaster dragons One 10 year old boy tried to sell me some peanut brittle stamped with frith our U. U S. S army label He also had American chocolate bars and bubble gum In China you never ask questions questions questions ques ques- and if you did the boy- boy vendor would smile and say Youre in the thieves' thieves market sister so hang onto your Jour camera and your purse Careers for young oung people of the poorer classes over here are almost a necessity but they're quite a contrast to our lucrative ve ones back home Theres There's no baby sitting in China A girl girlS I 8 S years old will wander through the dirty streets with baby sister sister sis sister sis sis- ter strapped to her back while she does the marketing or begging begging begging beg beg- ging for the day What sort of toys do the kids have here I asked attractive attractive attractive at at- Eta Lea who's well educated and works with Madame Madame Ma Ma- dame Sun Yat-sen Yat in helping teach the illiterate Chinese to torea rea read and write She laughed and told me that not only were most of the Chinese too poor to buy toys but that they had no time timeto timeto to play with them I Its strange she said but the Chinese boys all like to play soldier and you'll see wooden sabers hatchets tin pistols and even sharp metal swords on sale in the streets for these are the kinds of toys they understand I did see these warlike playthings playthings playthings play play- things and saw small soldier parades of kids marching bra bravely brave brave- vely ve- ve ly through the narrow winding streets and alleyways usually J keeping time to a pair of clashing clashing clashing clash clash- ing cymbals If the boys didn't have these cheap toy guns and sabers over their shoulders just justa a stick stich of bamboo was good goodenough goodenough goodenough enough to play soldier They see soldiers so much that they try to imitate them said Eta and added that in China there were always wars so they soon exchanged their toy guns for real rifles I have been buying typical toys in each country which I visit so yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day I located a man with a push pushcart pushcart pushcart cart loaded with these play guns swords and hatchets A Abig Abig Abig big crowd of Chinese gathered around as I gave the poor man more business than hed he'd had all year They all laughed as I walked down the street my arms filled with metal sabers gaudy red wooden swords cardboard cardboard cardboard card card- board shields and a couple of pop guns When I entered my hotel lobby carrying my weapons weapons ons I overheard a wise-cracking wise A Arne American m e r i c can a n businessman say Well I guess a girl alone has gotta protect herself these days |
