Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-02
Tells ABOUT
LIFE IN CHINA
Shanghai and Soochow Told
of in Letter From Woman
Well Known Here
4 Little About Shanghai and Soo'
chow

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Miss Luella De Lamarter, who
made many friends in Perth Amboy
when she was with her sister, Mrs.
solby Dill, has been in Picking, Chi
"a, Tor tho last three years, with the
Asia Banking Corporation.
Recently she started FOR nome
but got as far as Shanghai, where
She stopped to take up the WORK OIL
the business manager of the China
Central Committee of the American
Red Cross. Extracts from a very IN
eresting sctter written March ~ are
mere appended:
Last weekend we went to Soo-
chow, and it is the most Chinese
city Z have een yet. ! mean II IS
more my idea of China before l
anne out than anything Nv struck.
rhs shopping districts have very mar
.ow streets, hardly for "
sedan chairs to pass, and looking
iown one is a sight, -many colored
Tags and pewter things hanging out
IN front Of the shops. gray donkeys
with white brass harness and bells
and gay saddle cloths being driven
along carrying passengers, n OF
course rickshaws.
" LAAC kAA0 AA1A
n and out of the city and a great
part of the population lives on SAM
Dans. Some are very small and some
lutte large, and foreigners hire them
.or weekend trips. We walked over
% the Tiger Hill pagoda sunday
norning,-four or five miles along
canals and over rich green country
With some fruit trees in blossom here
ina there,-and then we hired a
;ampan coming back. 1t was more
Jun. The woman of the family does
most of the manipulating OF the
huge oar on the stern. while husband
ices a little fancy polling or steer
ng, and the stolid. placid babies sit
ust as put for hour after hour.
We saw some amusing things a.
ong the canals. They tie things on
he sampans 10 keep them from fall
ng overheard. / saw a baby tied to
: mast. with a little slack to let 1t
wander around, also a yellow kitten,
ONE chickens, and some ducks
winning alongside that were tied
~ the leg to the Gsat.
They use the canals for dong the
amily washing, washing the lettuce
or tiffin, washing grain and every
hing else. And they are the health
est looking bunch OF Chinese, the
most weil-ted looking, and the most
seautiful girls I've seen yet.
This (Soochow) is really a great
llaee. / can't say much for the no.
els. The one We stayed in was nice
n that it was built around court
ards with towering trees and plants
ut in spite of the many Foreigners
hat must go there, they don't know
low to cater to foreigners. However,
sou a stand it for the sake of see
'rEg 5ooehow. They have a couple of
lublic gardens there that are nice
90, where Chinese go to wander a.
ound, feed the goldfish and animals
md birds, and sit in their favorite
,ockeries and drink tea. They are
rery interesting and very Chinese.
i lived at the Kales Hotel when I
irst came, but hated il, and am now
n a very good boarding house,
save a good sized room and bath
md private hallway. IL is supposed
u be one of the two best in Shang-
1. Shanghai abounds in boarding
iouses. The thing of 1t is, Shanghai
3 so huge that l spend half an hour
IN the car between the house and
he Office but l put the time in read
ng
/ could have a rickshaw, but it is
! pretty long run for a boy four
lines q day, anG / car get a monthly
icket on the tram for six dollars,
% I'm going on the tram for the
pring anyway.
Shanghai really is horrid,-ths
people aren't like those in Picking.
II course you couldn't expect 1t as
fou never get the kind of people in
port that you do in a diplomatic
dty. And it is all pushing and noise
nd trans and speeding motor cars
ind insolent servants and pidgin
English, which l simply loathe. AS
say, if it weren't for the trips, l
wouldn't stay a moment. Also, 1 have
ct my heart on going home by Suez,
nd spring or summer is no time to
itart....s-
/ am running the office but have
O do a lot of interviewing cases too.
People are always coming in for
ielp. Most Of them are referred by
he Consulate. We give lodging and
God to stranded seamen, send Amer
cans home-las+ week sent a family
aome to the tune of $4,000 (Mex.)
just now there is e large influx OF
russians. They are absolutely desti-
ute, no work land can't get any on
recount of the big coolle class here),
10 food, no anything.
Ny feelings certainly get harrow
ID but 1 suppose 1 shall get used to
t in time. There Is one carrot-haired
lhtfty-eyed boy that comes in to see
ne a Iot-an American. He's a bad
me, but he certainly gets my sym
,athy. Yesterday he brought in "a
riend" all shot to pieces with drink.
Friend was a Norwegian, and his
,wn consul wouldn't help him. OF
curse / shouldn't have even tried,
ut I called up the General Hospital
and got them to give him a look
yer anyway.
They say Shanghai is the cesspool
Il the Orient. I always thought it a
ather spectacular term, but 1t is
Violently true.
This morning I've got to visit our
;oup Kitchen and hospital ward
where we maintain twenty-five beds
or Russians, besides getting up a.
tenda for a meeting tomorrow.
It's very interesting, but I want to
some home before too long. Did I
ell you I plan to go TO Singapore.
liam, Java, Rangoon, India, Egypt?
Won't It be a fine tripf Perhaps you
iouid meet me in Egypt IL I waited
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