The high class men of China
wear long robes reaching
almost to the feet. Some of
them are made of brocaded
silks, very beautiful.
The women wear pants and
it all look so strange to us.
The stoves are small and look
so ???. The ventilation
being poor and the heating
so primitive.
It seems as if these poor
people would freeze to death
in winter when the piercing
wind blows landward
from the river.
The poor little old stoves with a
small shovelful of coal seem
so inadequate to the job.
I stop my writing often to look
of the port hole to see the hun-
dreds and hundreds of ???
handling by hand the heavy freight.
We have quite a number of new