The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-09-22

THE vAsIED USES or BAMBoo n
THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM.

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ttndy Of history, language and social
custom.
The great natural material everywhere
ready to hand in China ID the bamboo
(Bambusa arundinacea). This plant
grows freely everywhere, and more readi-
" than our "quick hedge" ct home,
while IL Il Infinitely more adaptable TO
being fashioned into structures Of all
kinds.
The first thing farmer does in China
d to plant round three sides at least Of
the site OF his house and stealing bam-
boo fence or grove, the second TO cut IL
gradually down, and therefrom make
every conceivable thing he may want,
from his house itself down TO his fan,
opium pipe and chopstIcks.
The bamboo can be cut from the sire of
the top joint Of fishing rod to straight,
tapering mast, four inches or i've inches
in diameter and forty feet long. ~ is .
hollow-jointed tube, a. nearly round %
possible, hard, strong, very light; and
Let, when used a. strut, II should give
way by bucking, Is braced through ct i'm
tervais in the most approved manner BY
IT, joints.
In China nature has lent herself TO the
liberation Of ignorance or of unprogres-
sive knowledge, and has provided on
every mans land ready designed COM
precision member Of the best form, and Z
beam OF nearly the best. Beginning with
the house. where the plan initially II an
oblong divided into three, areception and
dining room In middle with the Lares
and Penates (actual ones Of wood or
bronze, representing Buddhist or Taoist
deities) conspiciously placed, and two
bedrooms, one on either side OF the re-
ception room. The walls and partitions
are Of upright posts Of the larger diameter
bamboo, to which are dashed with bamboo
strips smaller horixontals Of bamboo.
Through these are intertwined still
smaller bamboos, or laths of riven bam-
boo, plastered over with ciayey mud.
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