Show ID germane may lose Klau chau tho chinese concession which is causing so much trouble in the east but tt will be long before Klau chau will lose the made ln germany mark with which it has been impressed the speaker was mrs nicholson wife of rear admiral reginald F nicholson U S A recently in corn mand of the asiatic squadron who has returned from two years spent in the orient tsing tau the fortified town of the Klau chau province particularly Is a purlous anomaly she continued known all along the china coast as spotless town a bit of modern ger many set down in medieval china a place rivaling the gayest of european ipas as a summer resort governed by i german naval officer and yet curl ansly enough to the entire satisfaction at the large chinese population when the germans took tsing tau after the boxer troubles on a 99 year lease with the proviso that it should be returned to china on payment of the money expended they calmly picked up the chinese population bag and baggage moved them back from the sea some three miles and proceeded to build model villages with concrete houses and all modern am and install them the chinese took to it kindly too after the first shock had passed decided that cleanliness was excellent policy and since there Is no interference with personal liberty or polite practices such as foot binding and the like they submit to german rule with aery good grace like a suburb of berlin As tor the foreign quarter which burts the water front it Is difficult to believe that it Is chinese at all in aedan chairs with drawn curtains also foot binding baa been practical ly discontinued and the girls chosa feet have already been tortured out ot shape are now trying to spread them out another mark ot emancipation 1 the almost entire disappearance ot queues jn the chinese quarter ot shanghai it was even carried so tar that if a man refused to sacrifice bis queue the soldiers would seize him and cut it off it was rather curious that the only queues in evidence were worn by the servants of foreigners they clung to the old idea somehow strange street costumes it ou want to see extraordinary street costumes you should see the streets of shanghai since the revola alon about halt the men wear european clothes ot strange and hybrid breed the rest are in the beautiful native costume but many with any sort of hat from a silk tile to a jockey cap lots of little girls about sixteen or eighteen are trotting about and their regular costume consists ot a short gayly embroidered mandarin coat reaching about to the hips skin tight trousers of satin light blue or pink with black patent leather pumps their hair they wear braided and tied up with black taffeta bows while over one eye is perched a cap which a cross between a jockey cap and a chauffeurs hat generally made 0 some sort of checked stuff these little ladies stroll up and down with their hands in their pockets for all the world like the matinee crowd la an american city even the better class of women are making changes in their dress many of them are wearing bauzo skirts over their trousers and any number have changed the arrangement of their BARRACKS AT taing TAU the first place the germans have erect ed the beginnings of a charming forest they have planted myriads of trees of quick growing varieties and have coaxed them into growing where before was only a sandy waste with scarce a spear of grass in sight they have built miles upon miles of excel lent roads the houses are of stone or concrete sturdily built with red tiled roofs and set in pretty gardens the whole effect Is of some comfortable attractive suburb of berlin heightened by the omnipresent and particularly german verboten ver boten signs which decorate every spot where it Is possible tor a sign to be displayed when the american fleet went round the world about six or seven years ago admiral nicholson then captain commanded one of the ships hie wife followed the fleet and it was then that she first went to china their last visit began something more than two years ago when admiral holson was ordered to take corn roand of the asiatic squadron and on thia trip mrs nicholson spent almost the entire time in china the chinese revolutionary troubles kept the fleat in the neighborhood of shanghai a great part of the time and it was there mrs nicholson made her head quarters there Is no such thing as the servant question in china said mrs nicholson chinese servants are the best in the world so savy which means a sort of combination of smart willing intelligence and a dozen other qualities highly desirable and seldom found the first boy manages every thing and takes all the burden oft the housekeepers shoulders and then tle atmosphere Is rather carefree there Is a good deal of and the life is always changeful and interesting te modern chinese women mrs nicholson says that when she t cached shanghai in april 1912 acme alve or six years after her previous visit she was enormously impressed with the changed that bad taken place in so short a time the first thing that struck her was the number of amen in the street on her first cibit she says a high class woman in the streets of shanghai was a great rarity but now they are much in evidence 1 I even saw a number of chinese ladies driving automobiles splendid cars too continued mrs nicholson they used to be carried about la hair doing it now in what they call the republic style the new chinese flag la very much in evidence everywhere it la a cu rious striped banner with every color of the rainbow in it and has quite superseded the old dragon flag in deed the dragon as a chinese em blem Is quite dead no more borce kalns or embroideries are being made in the old designs and consequently the value of the fine old pieces Is increasing rapidly mrs nicholson made the trip home via tho suez canal and southern italy en route she spent some time in ma alia her second visit there american rule has worked many changes in the last few years she said and the ton Is full of interesting contrasts she also visited baculo the simla of the philippines where all americans who can go for the hot weather it Is a heavenly spot deep in the hills and surrounded by pine woods with a magnificent view |