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Show A China Travelague By Ec&ily F. Bostwick* The combination of the Old and the Hew, of the Oriental and Occidental experiences one constantly encounters in Chins. - seeing many things such &s are described in the Bible, and the next moment something we consider up-to-the-minute latest xaedeis - leeps mm interested and keenly observant, Having road© her heme in ©Ad China at two intervals of several years each, with a linger purled intervening in the iteal&nd, these gao* ymn% United States, the writer enjoys memories of various atiaa *f travel. latlva bousoboatsg, donkey back, sedan chairs, Peking carts^^lifee^^ftars,'ice sleds, steamships, railroad trains., automobiles are included in the l i s t . The things omitted, camel rides and wheelbarrow transportation, are regretted as never having been tries. There *re airplanes there alee, but these have been enjoyed here, and not oifer there. Just no^r sn interesting jouraey to Shansi Province (west-of-the-Mountians Province, Shan m Mountain, Si * '/est,} wh-.ch combined several of these experiences, cones vividly to sind. fill you eeeestpaa* as on this trip! Strange as it may sees, it was the Modern means-to-an-end .vhich finally maie this migration possible. So much time wag required to aaks the trip tram the Fort City, which was our home, that a visit to Sh^nsi was an unfulfilled areas; during my first sojourn in Cathay, and only those who had important business ta transact undertook it and rare.y did mtj ie i t i^r pleasure. The private Mail Courier, waa carried the mail ! ?T ?*?J"3 S l°"j r l e S i 0 t h a t ******** Province, ms eighteen d»yi m reate each way, ™ll I e U e r I™* \ * ll£ f£f f r i m i B «*•*•• thirty-si* Jays fas the very .oooaat they lilt IntX °Z/?£r* .,Th* p £ t i a n t c o o l i e ffiuat **w u t hi* *»** mA out of his sight while he made his pilgrimage ea • l i t t l e boat far tha first hmitZ aHes mi T V / ! ^raaa." Our American friends, imen going to shansi or r a t r r nZ clpi i T c I ^ t,e houseboat as lar I p a S S a ^ S K S f t which may be iamei 5 $ E Transit!" & " * * °* ^ ^ ( B t t l e 1 U t @ ^ ""•M** of t ^ i i ^ f e ^d%™ ««*?•*««** "The Iran Beree," no,, seems ouite'palatial An ******* uTicuT, KSafi: f rthen- T "8ipiag^ -in ni** weal, Xu^Zt for much, however, ee the Sahar ratal a^e wtrth r L i i * "fS!^* C Q t f o r t c^nU Ihaaaa Coek i Sons' Office 5 S I t l l ^ L I •£** f*® a iSnS run is considered. Traveller's F r L " in S i n i f werld-wiaely-known courtesy and efficiency, is the bad i ^ e T ^ *«*. -ilk *%« A i J ^VA*** 4.+.ii 4? iH* passage ior ytners as *eil as heras]f »« *k* + -very detail I r M r 3 l l B a s l m i M U i m ,&s a r r a n g e d afi ^ as ^ ^ ^ ^ t l L . *• 2:i?i:°&££*s*^,t^L*»"^ ,s**^a*• |