Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-05-23


him brief, also hogmeat. mutton. beef,
donkey meat, horse meat, and a spIen-
did variety Of fine 6sh. Also fowls IN
great variety. A Chinaman with mon
ey can live in excellent style, but the
poor are compelled to live very plainly.
They mostly eat the coarse sorghum
and millet. The poor cannot afford
much meat. Boiling and stewing are
the most common ways Of preparing
food. The bread is steamed and
baked, sometimes one and sometimes
the other Their table furniture is OF
the simplest kind. coarse earthernware,
bowls, cups, and wooden ehopsticks
being the chief articles. The chop
sticks are two sticks about s inches
long and serve the purpose OF knives,
forks and spoons. Forks and spoons
are sometimes used, but knives are
not, as no food is prepared until i; IS
chopped up small enough to take into
the mouth. The chopsticks are the
most important of the table furniture
and the skill the Chinese acquire in
their use is remarkable. All at the
table eat out of the same dish.
The missionaries live not as the
Chinese do, but very much as we
would at home. Many missionaries
live in houses built In foreign style,
and except for the lack of congenlal
society have nothing to complain of in
the way OF hardships. Our tables are
furnished in foreign style and our cooks
are trained to prepare our food in for
eign style. We can have almost all
the comforts we would have at home,
except tina. some of them become
rather expensive.
In this part of China they use the
kang, or brick bed, for sleeping pur.
poses and for sitting on during the
day. A few chairs and benches are
used but they generally sit on the kans
with their feet crossed beneath then
very much as the Turks do.
/ A kang 6x1e #. is sufficient sleeping
room for eight or zen persons. They
crowd themselves together head tt
foot. Men and their wives sleep il
| this style head to foot. The Chinese
retire early and rise early and are with
al very steady, hardworking, indus
trious people.
The Chinese do not have religion.
services in our sense of the word. They
have certain worship days as at New
Year and the 1st and Is day of eaci
month. The common rule is for tht
priests to attend to the worship at the
temples and the people to worship a
home. There are, OF course. excep
tons to this rule and the people 60 te
the temples for various purposes, bu
they do not have meetings for worship
as we do. They 60 one a. time o.
in small parties.
The gods in the temple are usually
made of clay and painted in brigh
colors. They usually have figure!
with hideous faces as attendants. TIL.
. Gods in the houses are usually OF pa
per-merely pictures. You ask if tht
language is difficult and how l am get
ting along with it. Is Olympus easy
J to lift? What Roadway do you think
would have made in two years in thu
) effort to roll Orsa upon Pelion? Yet
am glad to say patient, earnest effor
has enabled me to succeed so far tina
can speak with tolerable ease.
) l expect to start TO the country mex
week in company with Mr.. Prewitt, TO
; a two months preaching tour. Hope
we may be able to do some good ant
show some soul the way of life. w
shall probably be in the country whel
you get this. Will you pray for Cod
blessing upon our efforts among thl
daIkened people. Yours,
". w. HoLcoM.
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