Show THE financiers OF A FORGOTTEN KINGDOM along busy highways ot of ocean travel land links between appan and formosa pot not far from chinas coastwise routes yet visited by only two or th three ree white persons a year such are the IAM choo lucan or ayuku islands loo choo Is a land full of the indescribable serl bable charm and mystery of the orient Or lentI but replete with the pathos of a vanishing race writes roy bay chapman andrews to the national geographic society hut but although it has been 40 year years since there sounded the death knell cf of this little hidden kingdom loo choo Is not yet japan the arar realizes this een enen before he lands the pine clothed tomb dotted hills which aich form the background of pf the t tittle little cities of carld atia and shurl have ha ve an unfamiliar look and the pretty tiled roofs of the diminutive dimin uthe houses houes hou es just j visible over the surrounding gray stone tone walls give fascinating hint hints of hat bat may be found beyond their lacquered gate gateways mays on their entire OW square miles of land 1 only one white nan man an american missionary is re resi si dent with inith our money changed we began to look about to spend it for loo choo li is the home boule of the red lacquer ware famous throughout thron phout the world c h of it Is exported and the finast of th the e boxes bow 1 frari tables etc which alch are in dally use in japan and china nod and sold to tourists throughout through out the orient come from the little city of baha alin or shurl its neighbor across the t bills the lacquer ware are when hen first made Is a dull brown broun I 1 tut ut really first class pieces improve with age a and soon change to a beautiful er becoming brighter and clearer the longer they are used when we came to buy lacquer we e were greatly surprised to find that bar gaining had no place in loo choo without exception the first price aked for an article was nas the one for which it was sold never in the orl ent had we ue met with mith a similar condl condi tion it was interesting Int erting to find also that the won women en of loo cino conduct all bsh business and have charge of every thing v R pertaining to money with the single slight exception of spending it the marl market marlet et where in the morning the help qu long both er those who nho help themselves the only berfect ernect h 11 osband iq i lead and not many cuslan hii Blan consider coId cr it worth wl lie tie to go to that extreme A lot of them dont ion it know knon it but no woman cvar made a permanent hit bit with a man I 1 y creten preten ling to be something the obe lint the era of human brot broil I 1 bov never seems so far away avay aa as when your bank banker las ins aan bour our for a loan irom abo tb af theatis thea tir managers ad artise their lathing bathing beauties ee g api ose cebrus girls are the only that keep clean |