The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-12-13

lsee, but really doesn't have time tc lget peek at them all. Don't imagine Peking barren within its city walls It is beautiful city with many trees The Chinese are certainly artistic And the longer one lives in China the more he appreciates their art and architecture.
 Visits the Great Wall of China
 The big thing in China I had al ways looked forward to seeing was the great wall of China. Five of us girls made the trip to the wall the first Sunday after my arrival in Pe- king. We took the train which goes north into Urga, but our journey was only two hours to the wall. The great wall itself is the most thrilling, stupendous production of human gen. jus I ever expect to sec This huge wall built many hundreds of years ago against the northern barbarians, when seen at a distance, literally looks as though it were alive and crawling over the mountains. It isn't a straight wall, but twists and turns until it resembles an enormous snake acting as though it were moved by anger and about to coil it. self and strike. And this wall is near fly two thousand miles long !! Think of the lives it took to build it., because they used prisoners of war I and forced labor in its construction. But 1t has served it's purpose and to- day stands only as reminder of past strife and struggles. We had to walk about a mile or so from the station to the place where we could go up on the wall. This distance was through pass in the mountains used by the camel caravans on their way from the desert to Peking. These caravans travel hundreds of miles. One con- taining about 50 camels passed us. wanted to ride on a camel and have my picture taken on one, so we had {! them stop and the deed was done, as you can see by the enclosed snapshot Besides the camel caravans, we saw great f1ocks of sheep and vast herds of cattle which were being driven down from the northern provinces to the markets about Peking They have been doing this same thing in the same way for hundreds of years. The antiquity and history of it all ap- peals to me so much.
 Of course I saw many other inter- esting places, including the Templ. of Heaven. Forbidden City. Museum Winter and Summer Palaces. All these places are beautiful and could be revisited indefinitely.
 As I have already said, Helen has host of friends and there were either teas or dinners every day. A little stenuous. but lots of fun. Helen was busy in her laboratory all the time I was there, so I had to see the places of interest with other people. Several nice dinner parties and two big tea dances were given for me Helen gave big tea dance for me at their house couple of days after I arrived.
 A Week End in the Western Hills
 Some friends of Helen, the Clarks, a young married couple, had a won derful house party the last week end for us. They live in a temple belong ing to times long past. It is located out in the Western hills It is a per fectly wonderful place, and this party was one of the finishing touches of my stay at Peking. The Western hills are about a two hour motor ride from Peking - beautiful wooded hills where the Chinese long ago built many temples. Foreigners are now being allowed to rent these, and many people are taking advan- itage of the privilege. The temple the Clarks have is between six and seven hundred years old-built before the Ming and Manchu dynasties. There are numerous courts and surround ing buildings. all of one story, and lovely trees. too. It was the most de-
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