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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927.

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THE SPIRIT OF OLD CHINA : A HANGCHOW PEASANT SMOKING HIS PIPE IN HIS GARDEN OR REPOSE.

This picturesque photograph seems to typify the spirit of old China. Smoking Cantonese Nationalists, is one of the last strongholds of the ancient order, his pipe of peace-a very long pipe with a very small bowl-this old peasant, less infected than other Chinese cities by the restless spirit of modernity. in his garden of contemplation and repose," represents an attitude of mind It has hitherto preserved much of the antique charm that appealed to Marco that seems to have passed away amid the throes of China's awakening. Polo, and has kept its old-world calm unspoiled. " Amidst all this," says a Hangchow itself, which (as noted later in this number) has fallen to the recent observer, " comes again the clash and horror of war."

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