The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-29
I enjoyed a "person-
 )( ally conducted tour" from Shang-

NHESTERDAY I enjoyed person IT ally conducted tour" from Shang- = hai to Birmingham, the charm ing person in whose company I basked
 being a former lovely Birmingham girl, Irma Rozier, now Mrs Allen G. Loehr who with her pretty little daughter, lrma ! Dozier Loehr, is visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. o. T. Dozier, after an ab- sence of four and a half years.
 | Mrs. Loehr went to China as bride, her marriage occurring here, and inn m mediately afterward she and her husband, who is in the consular service at Shang- hai (and by the way, MT. Loehr is grandson of one of Methodism' greatest pioneer missionaries, the Rev. Young J. Allen, whose memory is beloved and honored in every nook and corner or | China), started for their far-distant des- | tination
 | Mrs Loehr returns laden with trophies souvenirs and the most wonderful stories | of her residence in China, stories of the marvellous people, of their mode Of nv | ing, of the superstitions and the social 1 life of Picking and Shanghai, where she has lived, all of which sound like some 1 fanciful romance from out the pages ol
 a novel, so exotic are they. and so charm
 ingly does she recount them.
 | ..When I first went to China, Mrs. f LO
 serhaps that was natural, because 1t was
 all so unusual and different and unlike anything I had ever seen pe1ore'' we I lived in Picking a year and then later when my husband was sent to Shansna we made that place our nome. we hrs' l lived in a wonderful old palace, but later lhad our own home and now our residence
 in the consular buildings is quite lovely and attractively, and l dearly loVe China. 1 "It took us-my little girl and myself two months to make the trip from Shan- ghai to Birmingham" Mrs. Loehr saiu ] "but we had terrible break in the trll
 because my little daughter deVeiopeo nea sules which had been epidemic II
 China hundreds and thousands dying
 from the disease and so we had to stol
 in Japan at Yokohama, and there we re
 1 mained nearly a month; otherwise w
 | could have made the trip In apout iou
 weeks. l.
 "At Yokohama we had some very de
 ightful experiences Mrs. Loehr con
 tinued. among them was the pleasu''
 of having a most superb view of tn
 sacred Tijuana mountains, the atmos , pheric conditions make view or thi | wonderful volcano more like a kaleluo scope vision than anything else' one od | showing purple, another red anu green and still another azure plue ol eouie ,. the mountains are cOVereu Wiei Si"0" the time, and while I was anxious to Visi the mountain it was impossible. ana no body would accompany me because the melting of the snow and the sius and ice made it very dangerous Among my souvenirs which prougn home." MT. Loehr said, lis very goo' reproduction of the Sacred Buddna' which stands at Kaimakura. The or,giha is about the size of an ordinary nous and is built of bronze with the srea pearl hanging between the eyes ana .n eyelids of gold The Sacred Temple Una covers this idol has been nve- time | washed away by tidal waves, put LII .Ruddha' stands in spite of this
 "One of the most interesting tnlhss
 reople here I fancy" Mrs. Loehr con | tirued, lis the mode of living Tn Ihiil as compared with it here. Foodstuii there as so ridiculously low in price Una 1t seems impossible to people in the state | who are so beset with the nigh cost | living and yet in spite Of the cnea ; food supplies, living in China costs
 | great deal more than it does nere' pc | cause of the tremendous rentals. Tn tn ! line of foodstuffs, one can purchase th choicest cuts of meats at p cents pound; any sort of meat-lamb, pork e beef: broilers sell five for dollar, wnii sugar is bought at 20 pounds for do lar
 "one can market better by allowin