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Show rr.'.-:::::-:.-::::::: Peking Child Beggars Bane of Foreigners swarms of nigged little girls of eight or ten years, each currying H tiny, wailing. naked Infant, supposedly their starving little sifters As u nutter nut-ter ot fact, these Mule begging gitls are all hired, as are also the Infants, by fat. sh.ek men who control this beg gar ring and prey upon Ignorant foreigners. Even Cairo and Naples cannot com pare with I'ekitig in the number and persistence of Ihe professional beggars who swarm upon the streets and an imy ft rangers wilh their supplications. In .'eking 'he casual tourist will do well to buy a "small dime" coppers before he goes out-that means twen ty eiglu copp'r and to distribute h copper here "1 8 copper there. It lUttchases Immunity from annoyance. The permanent resident obtains im iminitv only being as hard-hearted' as the I'hinese themselves and nevei glvinu- II one lives in I'eking for a time and maintains a ricksha hoy and several servants, one's doorway will not be bothered, for Ihe magical words tn I gay" "He nothing gives" -prend rapidly. Uecently the dooiways of the foreign hotels were beseiged bv |