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Show &HE T'ROWCE'RS ) OF CHIJVA. 15 hey tre a Happy Class' of Teople, X rich Chinaman wear allk, a pour at, cotton Since the proportion ot rich to poor U ibnut one In a thou, and, It foltowa that the growth and manufacture ot cotton are vital nee ccultlta. It la thought cotton culture waa begun In the thirteenth century, the plant comlni In from India, where THE WEAVEIt It haa been known for 2000 years In pits ot her unequaled agriculture, China doea not ralte cotton for export nor, In fact, enough for her own need. In the erowtn and manufact-r manufact-r of It, a In everything elan, the aim la not, aa In theio United States, to v hand labor but to use na much of U m possible There are uo puwir- gtaa for taking out the reed Instead the Chlneie use the little hand gins very like thoie nt 111 to be found In the homespun region of (he Appalachian chain The gin In 'nothing more than a couple of small wooden rollers made faat In uprights affiled to a bench Tney are turned by a wooden crank, reole one against lheb(hr, and free the cotton of seed by drawing the lint The lint Is fed to them by hand, and It takes a long and steady day'a work to gin Are pound of lint which means twenty pound ot cotton In the seed The cotton Is carded simultaneously simultane-ously with the ginning A second man stands at the end of the bench beating the clean cotton with the tee-kung, tee-kung, or earth bow, Into big Oaky ' bnti ' These bats the women spin In various ways Sometime they use the qld fashioned spinning- wheel Much otlener It Is something npproxl-matlng npproxl-matlng the antlent distaff" The spinner spin-ner twirls It steadily walking around and around aa she twirls, thus winding wind-ing the lengthening thread Into viry long hanks If It la spun and run Into In-to brunches or quills they are often reeled with a hand-reel Chinese Industry In-dustry Indeed Is as Inveterate as Chinese Chi-nese economy Women usually work at auch reeling while they stand and gossip In the alloy ways between their houses If there la no rod handy they will bo stitching upon a shoe sole, si-1 si-1 wnys a salable article Kara feet are unknown In China Kven a beggar weara shoes though he may hsvs no other clothes than ha head howl, which serves both aa a hat nnd to hold out when there la a chance ot alms Nothing It wnstid In China Even grass and wheat roots are pulled up, washed, dried and used for fuel Scraps of paper and cloth are, pasted together to make the Insolee of shoe lilts of wood arn glued In build up either a board or a pott Women spinner spin-ner and atraw-plaltera earn In day The spinning though, Is most commonly com-monly like the weaving at the hand looms only a part of unpaid household house-hold labor Machine mad sloth am' thread have of late com to bear heavily upon the rotton-worktrt, but that fact It In a degree offset by the growing Import of raw cotton Still some of the light yellow hand made fabric, know the world ovar aa nn-keen, nn-keen, from the city of eiport, Nankin, la shipped abroad It la made from a peculiar yellow-staple cotton, hence not dyed The same yellow staple cotton cot-ton Is grown and manufactured by Ar-cadiana Ar-cadiana In Inulslana, but tha fabric It so scarce It does not compete with the Chinese one Kite dollars a year will cloth a Chinese hutband ami wife something moro than decently Underwear Is unknownso un-knownso Is fitting a garment lha only measures taken are from the hip to the ground, nnd from the mlddl ot the brestt to the flncer tips Fath-rii Fath-rii ilo not i hange Witter gsxtoenl ail bedding arn waddej with ewllun tare a year they mutt be ripped apart aid washed padding and al How nredfut la economy may be lllged from a few figure Unskilled Ithorer are paid upon an average 7c a day Masona carpenter and sUme cttlrra here M elsewhere tbt arlitu-cra arlitu-cra y of laboi,, get from io to 10 a tiii: stone cutters. diy. According to the nvtrag ol ptlcee of article of consumption In Ulna 25e a day 1 equivalent to I LEO per day here Work begins at un rlii and keep up until dark Notwithstanding Not-withstanding all which strike are vlr-tutlly vlr-tutlly unknown aud the Chinese laborer la-borer 1 the happiest and inoit con-tailed con-tailed In tho world A VIP.W OP TDK CITY Or' CHUNG KINO FU. IMPOUTANT COTTON CENTER AND A IlOXEIl BTIIOS'nilOI.U |