The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-16

tume-an umpire,I suppose-announced
! the names in tragic tones. He carried
a fan which he carefully held the same
way for certain movements and another
way for different ones, evidently a
question of great etiquette. They were
| splendid wrestlers. and we sat from 8
until 6 watching their various ceremo-
MES and movements. They came in
| together, dressed in the most mag
nifiCent embroidered aprons. There
were about 80 of them, some of them
the latest things 1 ever saw in my
| llfe-one map must have weighed near
| ly 400. I saw one pick up another, lift
him in the air and toss him over his
head outside the ring in a summer
sault.
"Wednesday we sailed from Kobe,
Koshida falling into the ocean off the
gang plank of the ship as he stepped
off the steam launch, and dropping our
| bags and umbrellas. I looked over the
rail and saw my precious bag floating
| off. but they fished him and the bags
and umbrellas out, all drenched, of
course We had a day and night on
the inland sea, and stopped during our
| day, at Nagasaki, the prettiest harbor
l ever saw; and then two days and a
| half to Shanghai A few hours there,
two days and a half UP the sea, and we
| landed at Hong Kong in the setting
| sun, most glorious sight, and a superb
| harbor.
The next day we went to Canton,
nights trip on the boat Canton is the
most interesting place 1 ever saw and
| the strangest. The river is filled with
| 1000 boats, so thick that they lie side
| by side ana you can walk from one to
| the other, and upon them the people
live and die and bring up their fami-
| lies. Canton is four miles wide and
| two miles long, and has over one mil
lion inhabitants. You can imagine the
way they swarm; they are like flies, so
thick. Most of the men and boys were
I half naked, and the effect that such
swarms of humanity have upon you is
dreadful
The streets are only about five feet
broad between the buildings, and are
! all paved. The stones are slippery
from the millions Of feet that press
them. The shops are all open, the
shutters being taken off entirely every
morning, so that the counters are right
on the street. There was room for on
~ one sedan chair TO pass mine, and to
do that, the crowds of people had to
step into the shops.
The chair coolies keep UP an il
| cessant shouting and yelling, and the
smells go far ahead of anything you
] ever imagined. I was just worn out
I looking, there was so much and so
| many people. We went into Cozens of
the little shops and bought lots OF
things-old embroidery, jades and
fans. I have an entire Chinese 'ady' s
| embroidered costume. shoes ard all.
l saw hundreds of women with little
feet-what they call lilly feet'-and a
sad sight they are, lettering around,
| holding on the wall, or with small
canes in their hands to keep them
from falling. The women are as small
as japanese women, while the men are
fine, large creatures, and many CT
them are really handsome. They are
better nourished than the japanese,
Z who look half starved. The Japanese
habit of sitting on their heels has
dwarfed them. I think. The Chinese
, all sit upon stools and chairs
The lily foot is nothing but the
: heel and big toe, the other Toes being
/. turned under and bound down tightly
: until they shrink, so that they do not
amount to much. The binding is begun
at three or four years Of age and con-
/ tinued until the 10th or 18th year. Cur
, guide said, carelessly, Cry a lot The
! girls look as if their legs were Whitfield
| down to a point: the ankle is of some
size, and then this little point 4heir
legs are shrunken and homelv. They
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sack, both men and women.
: THE high class men dress suDerbly
in silks and brocades. with a long silk
gown and a silk jacket over that. They
wear lovely silks Of light blue aud
lavender and are very fine. The NO.
men, even the high class ones, GO not
wear a pretty costume. The long,
loose trousers are not pretty, nor the
loose sack. They, like the japanese,
plaster the face thick with paint and
powder and shave the eyebrows. The
! hair Is also shaved, so as to make a
high, round forehead and the hair Is
plastered down with some kind of stuff
close to the head. They an, rlrh and
poor, wear jade earrings.
We were two days in Canton, and
then went to Masso, a little town set
tied in 1900 by Portuguese and still
owned by them. and just as Portuguese
as If il were in Portugal, so far as
. buildings, names of streets, women'S
! costumes. etc, go. 1t is sweet pretty
place. The Chinese part of II is famous
as being the great gambling place OF
: China The Chinese are all inveteratt
gamblers. On the steamer l watched
, them gamble all day long down in the
steerage. They play various game;
with dominoes and dice and with sort
Of bean or button. but nothing with
; cards. 1t is all betting.
! Hong Kong is a beautiful city, but
ii has not much of interest. 1t is ar
English port, and there are many finJ
, residences built upon terraces, going VI
the steep hill side. The business part
, of Hong Kong is along the shore at tbs
foot of the high and abrupt hills. 1t is
a magnificent harbor, and was filled
with men-of-war. ocean steamers, riv-
: er boats and every kind Of boats. They
have bubonic plague there and small
pox. and were dying at the rate of i
; to 20 q day from the plague alone, while
j we We're there. but somehow. you dom
think much about it. Still, I was glad
10 leave it, and I shall be glad to gel
| TO Shanghai and glad 10 get back tC
Japan, and how glad TO get back L
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