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Show China: n Bosnia Idenl Archibald Little, in an interesting paper read before the Liverpool Geographical Geo-graphical Society, which has special importance in view of recent events, points out that the ' economic' Ideals advocated by Ruskin have been to a great extent realized in the Chinese empire.. . The. .Chinese, he said, . have made of China a vast garden, with not a Weed in it- Their system of manuring manur-ing is highly sanitary. The streams are unpolluted, and no underground drainage lays traps for -the. unwary. With regard to the riches lying below the surface. -the same cannot be slid, i Mining is carried on upon a very small I scale, and with very primitive meth- ods. It has been totally discouraged i by the officials, whose ideal is a country coun-try of small proprietors, self-sufficing, each family producing its own food, its own raw materials for, clothing, f cotton, or silk, the family doing all the spinning, weaving, and clothing of Its |