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Show l a t a WW t w e i l e r a stopped to rest in the middle of the day and to enjoy the fine luncheon our friends had had their servants erepare for us, my friend asked:- "Is your driver as polite as mine?" inquiring how polite her's was, I was told - "Every time he lights a cigarette, he offers me one, and she had declined. f!0h yes," I said, "mine do©s that too, but when I do not accept he gives me a queer look, and really both nav© 'their opinions of us, and think we ar© too stingy to return the favor." She looked puzzled, and I Bake! - "Haven't you looked over your shoulder to see what i s back of you in your cart?" She looked in, "caught on," and laughed. Like Th© Standard Oil Co., and The Singer Sewing Machine Co., "The B.A.T." (often called "The Bat,") - British and American Tobacco Co., - is everywhere in China, so American cigarettes may be had in all the small shops in the Interior, as -fell as in the large commercial establishments in the Treaty Ports. Thus cigarette cartons are the most easily obtainable type of "paste board boxes" and our food supflies had been packed in a number ,f these &nd divided between the two loads. f i th our twenty-five-miie trip from Yutze as a yardstick to measure by, it was evident that this fifty~five-mil© ride would take the best part of tea days, for there was to b© no exceeding of the speed limit! Only when crossing the aristocratic highway,of which we had heard so much, did 9* see i t s perfection. Chariot racers, such as aa, belonged to another class. But we were off on I "pleasure exertion," so why hurry^or "why worry?" Night overtook us at the place agreed upon. Bo Chinese Inn this time. f© were to be guests at a hospitable Country Mission Station, where there -w®re no "foreigners," but where a Chinese Christian preacher sod teacher welcomed us kindly. School had closed for the summer, and we might occupy the up-stairs room in the School House! To one unfamiliar with China, the i t a l i c i z ed "up-stairs" will not be understood, but rarely in China does one see a native building of more than one story. In Shansi i t is more often seen than in Other regions, but even there i t is not common- Me had our o#n bedding and food, but there were windows and fresh air, privileges we much appreciated. fa were rested to start on the next morning. This was apt a "famine year" in Shansi, as had been the previous one! fheat was ready for the sickle,, and was being harvested in that historic manner. fhole families were gleaning, and "Ruths" following in their wake. Sheaves were carried to the threshing floors - hard beaten plots of ground, which, if a bit larger, would have made fine tennis courts. Sometimes an ox was treading out the grain, but mors often a f l a i l was being manipulated, or a blind-folded beast was walking round and round dragging a stone r o l l e r , and a wosaan busily engaged in brushing hack the grain that mm be wasted. It was what one reads of, and seldom has a chance to see. Almost any time of year in the villages "two women grinding at the mill" may be seen. Winnowing the grain.by tossing I t in the air from, baskets that the chaff may be carried away, was a common sight; but there i s one type of agricultural implement, rarely seen anywhere but in Shansi, and there seemed to be quit® a number of them - real fanning mills. They are a made-in-ghiea machine, but patterned after those in use in other lands. No sooner was the wheat garnered than the land was replowed and hemp or buckwheat sowed. Chines© farmers do not take Agricultural Periodicals that t e l l them about rotation of crops, but they just know how to do i t , whether they know the wh£ or not. f i t h over four hundred million population, China i s not suffering from "over production." I t is a case of necessity te make their small farms produce as much as possible. Yutaiho, the Valley to which we ar© going, i s practically a "dry river bed. such as i s a familiar thing in California. It i s an a t t r a c t ! f i Valley with fin© trees and i t seems more lik© being "in the country" in any country than any place I have been in China. Even with the seemingly insignificant trickle of a stream, there were eighty flour mills In eight miles, all run by i t s power. This speaks well, too, for what a |