Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-13

case in the corner contains specimens of faience too large for the drawers. A customer appears to be buying some thing, just as one might do in America.
 Here is tea house, or restaurant Perhaps in China they will call their tea houses restaurants some day, just as we have adopted the word ''cafe'' from France On the ground floor the great teapot for hot water-as big as ten horsepower boiler-is ready always to supply the steaming cup. The tea rooms are above, extending over sever al other stores. The farthest Is an opium room, with it's wide benches and stools of equal height, upon which the devotees may fall back, lulled by the pipe dreams induced by the insidious drug that is responsible for China's most deplorable of vices. This little model is the only evidence discovefable in all the great exhibit that China ad- mits the existence of the opium smok- ing habit among her people. But, then, we have opium rooms in New York and San Francisco.
 Beneath the tea rooms is a rice or grain store The signs probably bear legend as familiar throughout China as the "Grain, Flour, Feed and Baled Hay'' signs are to Americans. Rice is the great staple food of China. At his meals the Chinese has his bowl of rice as we have our potato. His meats, bread, cakes and fruits are his dalica- cies and are to be partaken of only sparingly. 'I have never seen drunk en Chinese" said gentleman to me who had travelled 5000 miles from the coast into China Yet the Chinese drinks his wine, but by thimblefuls and upon appointed days only. Gluttony and unbridied indulgence are not for the Chinese. Opium smoking was orig inally the white mans vice, and the better class~of Chinese deplore its pres ence within the empires boundaries.
 Here Is Chinese gentleman's town house with two outer rooms where the cooly porter stands to receive the guests of his master. Glancing in, we may see the gentleman taking sip of tea. In the far room is the shrine with ancestral tablets and incense jars If we look about in the exhibit all around US we may see the real fllrni- ture with which gentleman's house in China is furnished. Note the great rugs with long pile and fine pattern The Chinese are thorough in what they do, and here is the proof of that thor oughness. The sedan chair, carried by two coolies, sits upon the floor of the large entrance room, waiting the mas ter's convenience, as wealthy Amer ican's carriage waits at the curb or in the stable.
 Hats and shoes are Chinese busi- 1 ness combination. Tn the hat and shoe store the round hats with button dec oratfons that indicate the social stand ing and the shoes with felt soles that insure a comfortable physical standing are ranged in glass cases on the walls l just like any American store might be. The coarser grades are at the back part of the store on open shelves, where moth and rust and dust may corrupt If the proprietor fails to adver- tise in the local paper. Everything is graded in China in much the same way as elsewhere in the world. The refined and elegant things get their proper set tings-the good hats and shoes in the glass cases and the coarse ones unpro- tected. The cultured people have the good houses bee luse culture demands them, and the rough and unrefned dwell in the humber abodea, all grad ed by the common natural law that knows neither cline, country nor creed The Chinese .tumbrellas to mend'' man has most respectable looking store. Below are the finished goods, and we peep through lattice to see him at his labors on the second floor Shoes are part of his stock shoes that never saw any animals back, ex- cept perhaps to ride to market. So while there's nothing like leather when well put together" the Chinese shoemaker can get along very well without 1t. Fans as well as shoes go with the umbrella stock, and the fan is as commonly used as the other arti- cIes.
 You might mistake the silk store for a tea house, for tea drinking is the most noticeable occupation of those within view. But the tea is every where Tea is a part of every social and business conference. Tea is the Chinese promoter of good fellowship the balance wheel that keeps head and heart steady when there is business to do or personal experiences to recount The silks are seen above, whither some of the little tea parties have adjourned to examine coiors and qualities and to strike a bargain. One of the little wooden men is washing his face with both hands just as you or I might do when taking thorough sousing. These little details go far to give us a correct picture of the real China.
 Fair Grounds, St. Louis.
 Jones-Henry.
 This remarkable wedding announce ment recently appeared in Green vile (Wis.) paper:
 Miss Jennie Jones and Bob Henry