children in one boat. The small ones have ropes tied around them: so, if
they fall into the water, they can be picked up easily.

A little fire in a small earthen vessel is all that these strange people
have to cook their food by. The poorer ones have nothing but rice to
eat, and consider themselves very fortunate if they get plenty of that.
Those better off have a great variety of food; and some of it looks
quite tempting; but the greater part is horrible to look at, and much
worse to smell.

All the men and boys have their hair braided in long cues. The women
have theirs done up in various styles; each province in China having its
own fashion. Neither women nor men can dress their own hair. The poorest
beggars in the street have their hair done up by a barber.

For the men there are street barbers, who shave heads on low seats by
the roadside; but, for the higher classes and the women, a barber goes
to their houses. The women's hair is made very stiff and shiny by a
paste prepared from a wood which resembles the slippery-elm. It takes at
least an hour to do up a Chinese woman's hair.

C.E.C.

HONG KONG, CHINA.




MINOS.