Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1920 — Chinese “Gossips." [ARTICLE]

Chinese “Gossips."

In China there is a very strange profession for women. It is carried on by the elderly ladles, who go the round of the best houses, announcing their cdmlng by beating a drum, and offering their services to amuse the lady of the house. This offer accepted,‘they sit down and tell the latest scandals and the newest stories and bits of gossip, and are rewarded at the rate of a few pennies per hour.