Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1904 — Foreign Wares In China. [ARTICLE]

Foreign Wares In China.

The Chinese peasant is no longer content to burn bean oil; be wants kerosene. In scores of humble Laos homes I saw American lamps costing 20 rupees apiece, and n magistrate proudly showed me a collection of nineteen of these shining articles. The narrow Btreats of Canton are brilliant with German and American chandeliers, and myriads of private houses throughout the empire arc. lighted by foreign

lamps. "'The desire of the Asiatic to possess foreign lamps is equaled only by his passion for foreign clocks. The demand for clocks is insatiable. I counted twenty-seven in the private apartments of the emperor of China and my wife nineteen in the bedroom of the empress dowager, while cheaper ones tick to the delighted wonder of myriads of humbler people. The ambitious Syrian scorns the mud roof of his ancestors and will be satisfied only with the bright red tiles imported from France.—Arthur Judson Brown in Century.