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Show Many Roomed Chinese Houses. "In China a house of human habitation habita-tion is a very different affair from what it is in the United States," said Ellis O. Habberton of San Francisco "We think of a house over here ordinarily or-dinarily as the abode of a family of at least a limited number of individuals, individ-uals, but not so in the Orient. For instance, my wife and I stayed once for some weeks In a native temple, but our occupancy was merely an Incident Inci-dent and did not Interfere In the least with the regular business of the priests. "Their structure was a huge, ram bllng affair, and they were glad to rent us some of the unused space. The Chinese houses, low, and spread out over a vast expanse, have a multitude mul-titude of rooms all ranged about a rectangular courtyard giving shelter to many things. A rich Chinaman with a big assortment of wives can dispose them conveniently under the same roof and yet not have them In such proximity as to provoke friction or strife." |