Show desch ana burial in popular science monthly when the chinese wish to declare the extreme of any piece of work they say it is more I 1 trouble than a funeral the oate of a parent being reckoned the most human infants are buried summarily wi phout caffins and the younie are interred with few rites but the funerals of the aged of both apexes are elaborate in proportion to the number of the descend ants anti to their wealth when a childless married man dies big widow may all the duties of a son toward him may remain in the house and rny adopt children to rear as his heirs and as worshipers of the family names if the widow proposes carrying ying asin a young male relative may with the consent enior members of the clan undertake the services except from a autt rn inherit the estate of t he decease al when one is about to die he is removed fruna his couch to a beach or a mat on the floor because of a belief that he who dies in a bed will carry the bedstead bed as a burden into the next world he is washed in a new pot in warm water in which a bundle of incense is merged after the the pot and the water are tj rown away together he is then arrayed in a full suit of clothe I 1 ing that h mar appear in bades at his best ile breathes big last in the main room before be fore the largest door of the house that the departing soul insy easily find its way out into the air 4 of spirit men brown paper having a t c h of ad 1 ing on one surface is mi d ever tie upturned face because it is said that if the eyes are left uncovered the may count the rows of tilea in the roof and in such case the family could build a mori spacious domicile |