Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1917 — Pay Up Day In China. [ARTICLE]

Pay Up Day In China.

At the Chinese New Year, the houses and other buildings are decked with flowers, and the streets are thronged ' with people, who come out to buy provisions, new clothes and gifts. One good New Year custom in Chin* is that of settling up all debts before the old year has#died out A Chinaman who allows the New Year to dawn before he ha* settled with his creditors feels himself diagrncnfl.