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Show stands out exactly at the end of the Red Cross road which stops just there, and it® gste~houg@ serves as a Garage* It happened that my window had B broad view looking straight down the road, and to see the fast (!) approaching car, one could but think, "#hat if the breaks should not hold, and i t could not stop in time?" (If me had to pay interest on a l l the trouble we borrow, we'd be pooa@r than we are!) One night when a l l was s t i l l I we a naughty enough to quietly open my door aal step out ea the veranda and s t e a l t h i l y slip ?. round to the Garage with a tube of paste arid an advertisement I had clipped fro* i aagasin® - "Iff DO YOU NOT PAINT YOUR GAR?" - and pasted it •right on the side of the Sedan! Quietly next morning from behind my window curtains when the commuter gentlemen went out to enter their Bus, I watched and could see that they questioned one another, and laughed. No one looked wise, and i t was i@ft there i that word wPa£ntw being th® only speck of that a r t i c l e the outfit boasted #|'|er & long ime before they had any clue ?>s to hew i t came there. Speaking of Americans who assisted the Red Cross - 1 knew one portly man who was patrolling his d i s t r i c t . Instead af a steam roller,, there wis a stone r o l l e r dnwn by a team Of thrity-three coolies harnessed in wild goose V-formations each by a rope attached to the weight* He said his men were a happy crowd, and, coolie-fashion, as any one knows who has seen aal heard a crew of them tramping s tow-path towing a heavy boat up stream by ropes fastened to i t s mast, they were singing. The leader i s always the"soloist"and composes the "verses," and a l l join in the "chorus." They were coming toward the Inspect, or, and the head man was crooning the equivalent of "Here comes the big fat American,*Sf •fhorus - "Yo-hco, yo-hoo!" "He's the on© whe pays us our cash," "Yo-hoo, yo-hoo!" etc. The Red Cross representative enjoyed it a l l , and finally laughed heartily, and hi a human beasta-of-burden were quite astonished that he had understood what they had chanted in their own language. They were quite sure that if he had sung about them in English, they would not have understood. (ThAs happened in Chihli insteai^of Shansi.) All of th© Mills, as I have said, are run by water power. They io not have "Overshot wheels" for they are unier the buildings. So for aa»t of the technical name fas I m not a technocrat,nj 1*11 c a l l them undershot wheels. The tiny flume zigzags from side to side to aceonaiodate a l l - It was .once my privilege to visit one of th© Mills in o T ^ n 0 % . ^ I™**** t h e Wh°U ****** m h m i ^ m ^ « * * * • Baaah-talkai. f o r S ^ h e ^ ° " " MChin"Tr> " •*••*»* interesting. Probably i t is verv much a! ear SSwVZ%oJe,on^•S* J^/i U e r f i U e d " a hopper, and touched a lever which floor f*r X T r i ? TV ***** m* rmni ""* th® ^°™> w« « t cm the hardwood lever I t t a c h e T i t t f L f J f " " ^ ' S T TT ***** *** ****«*«•**•« and another H v e / i n Chit !n % * £ "" l ? " * ***** t h § £ S 6 S n d t t e e * **** 1 *** formerly livei in China, all ear Flour was shipped trim Oregon.) j u e t why thev had not iZilZl *m. more © o r i e n t receptacle for catching i t when i t fell l Z \ ^ l t l l t in t lad I f ore ""I 5 J S f l 0 0 r ' * d ° -one, and i t nad never occur rne0d t t*e» *en"y on*e *th*at* th*e-re *c•o«u l^d abt e waanso tthh©er ? way. i tSs f i r st the rood by my wiltZ mktnlll 1fA £<?*** e*=» U? f F " t h e *™«Uy bed to aademe again with his eliise a r i r , *m £ e n * x w a r a corning, bask he would come and sere- Hail as hf . e d a £ . V * l f f ^ t0 & r ° P @ ***** * * ^ the-e " i f cW «i • ' I . *• . P *** d @ s e r t " «*| there been a"fleetMof |