Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1883 — The Chinese Peasant. [ARTICLE]

The Chinese Peasant.

A writer in the London Times gives this as an example of the condition of the Chinese peasants: “A family consisting of eight persons own an acre and a half of land. The land was bought by the grandfather of the present head and has never been subdivided since nor added to. He grows about seventy bushels of rice and thirty-five of wheat, and some vegetables and cotton besides, worth altogether in money about SSO. He has two nephews who work outside and bring home something to help, and in that way they get along. bvifcvWikey are very■; pssßKw.-fie.asd l all his neighbors wear native blue cloth, spun and woven in the family by the women from cotton grown by themselves. Ho never wore foreign cotton. The coat he had on (a well-worn affair) had been made two years previously, and it would last two years more. It served him at night as a coverlet as well as a coat by day.