The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-04-04

women wearing trousers. 1ueTe are
more women wearing trousers in Chi.
ma than there are people in the United
Statesmen, women and children. !
suppose there is no reason why things
shouldn't be thus, but it will always
seem to me that the pants are OH the
wrong side of the house.
The women look like clothespins
Their bodies are the same size all the
way down, and their feet are so tiny
that they go bobbing along for all the
world like jointed clothespins The
women shave their foreheads, with
the timber line almost at the top OF
their heads, SO that the little patch Of
face below looks as if it were trem
bling under threat of an impending
snowSlide.
Their hair is pulled and keyed back
as though for musical purposes. Al
the back Of the head Chinese wo-
man wears cushion of false hair, 50
dressed as to show her rank, so that
person skilled i'll the language of the
hair can read her history, can tell her
present plans and her future anbi'
tions. A person up on hair can tell at
glance whether or not she Is mar
Tied; il so, how many children she has,
and If widow, if she is willing to
open correspondence with a desirable
party of about orty-fve-object, mat
rimoRy.
IL this cushion a Chinese woman
carries her head scratcher. Her hair
dressing is preparation made of slip.
perry elm. The person needing it can
iqIn out TO the corner and wait until
the carpenter takes plane and shaves
off few curls. This the Chinese lady
! sleeps into a thick, gummy smear,
pours It on her head and uses it to
stiifcn her hair
This layer makes the top of her head
hot. so that every odd moment when
| she hasn't anything else TO do she gets
| down under the mess and lets in some
| air with n darning needle. Her favor
| ite time for doing this IS at the theater
When the performance begins 70 drag
she gets out her darning needle and
improves the shining hour by making a
rift in the roof as she looks around
over the audience, lightly gossiping
about who are there. what they are
wearing and how awful they look.
Men in China wear skirts. Their
skirts are in garment that reaches
from their shoulders to their shins and
looks like nightgown worn by a Cape
Cod deacon. 1t has tasty slit up each
side, so that OH muddy crossings the
twinkle of masculine ankles may be
seen. When they want TO catch a cal
they have TO gather up their skirts IL
the good old fashioned feminine way.
| Under their skirts they wear n pail
OF drawers fastened at the ankles will
n bandage, with the ends tucked in
When a Chinaman has an importan
letter or note to carry he unties the le;
of his drawers. Stuffs it in and puts th,
bandagc back The bandage works
loose 50 that when he reaches his deS
tinaton the note is usually gone.
The only pockets n Chinaman has ar
in his shirt waist, which he wears un
der his skirt, 50 that when he wants L
get Il dime he has to unbutton one sid
and slip in a hand. Even though
Clinaman wears skirts he has not ye
, learned about the First National bank
| The Chinese are Il great nation {
think of the handy little things-thing
that no other people in the world cou
possibly think of. You can run out o
TO the street almost any time and bu
, ain ear ticklcr. Men make livin
= going around selling them. An ca
;ickler is little puff of cotton on tn
end of stick and is meant to combin
hoth business and pleasure-the bus
D ness of cleaning the ear and the plea:
ure Of the tickling sensation.
His is not on easy life, for the pee
dler has TO be constantly on the waite
against tricky people who come "
sample his ticklcrS. give their ears
couple of good tingles, tell the ma
that they don't like his brand of ticl
y Ter and 20 on their way.
The peddlers ingenuity has deve
oped way of polishing up the tickle
/, so that the next possible purchas,
~ may not know that the ticker has bee
I. weighed and found wanting by carr
ing along little bowl Of white poN
70 der, After ticker has been sample
8. and declined he dabs the end into Il
o. bowl, and it is bright and fresh looliii
" as il. it We're new. II you went TO bi
i. one you couldn't tell for the life of 81
II. but that it was n new one-until "
nr had used it time or two.-Hom
it Croy in Leslies Weekly,