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Highland Park Press (1912), 20 Oct 1921, p. 4

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HE? HUI-f For}: ‘ ditions â€" might induce you to say so, but cross your heart and hope to die. if you didn’t have to eat it, would you feel any worse? BUT Toast may be evolved that is a J_I3A:--__ _.2__.J _--A_‘_- LI“-_ I.-- EAIIA__‘ HONEST _ do you like it? LITENESSâ€"â€"â€" The surrounding con~ "' delicious viand every time by follow- ing the route that leads to it , the way pointed out by Electric Toasters. OAST â€"â€" the ordinary specials, manuâ€" factured in the ordinary way and delivered sometimes cold, igometimes charred black and generally pretty near- ly tastelessâ€"â€" '3‘ J. M. HGNSON m4 Public Service Co. Ford Cars of all kypes are in great demand. so place your order nt once if you wish to avond delay in delivery. SPRINGER PERSON And “because it is a Ford" means good taste. pnde of ownersmp and genume Common Sense. The Ford Sedan. 3 closed car ofdtsunction, beauty and convenience, 15 the ideal all year 'round car, for pleasure or business~for the farm. town or city. It gives you all that any car can give at a much lowar cost for Opel-anon and maintenance. For "because it is a Ford" means dependabxluy, ease of operation, efficwncv~and n means surc, qmck transportation. Many Ford owners can afford to own and oper- me any car they may choose. but they prefer a Ford "because it is a Ford." Tel. Hi‘hlund Pttk y Gen ume Common Sense MATTRESS “It; work on the dim" room :abl: of Northern Illinois Monthly Payments HIGHLAND PARK. ILLINOIS THE UNIVERSAL CAR The Pcrfect Rest Is a 1“ Corner Altbodnd Dukn Sal“ om“. Wat Muoocln avenue LAKE POREST. Icuums SL Johns Ind i‘lrk Avo- Ii ‘ Such was our entry into Soochow. tand all day yesterday it ruined and we were unable to go night-seeing but today the sun has shone intermit- tantly and this morning We went in rickshas through the nnrrow And crowded streets. which are so narrow that in places one can touch both sides 1 with outstretched arms. to the great; l pagoda. two hundred and fifty feet‘ l high and one ofthe finest in China. \Ve entered through a dark and un- savory passage and climbed the stone :steps to one of the upper galleries from whirh there was an extended Vlt‘W of the city with its encircling walls and high hills beyond. There‘ are severiil other pitgodnm some well prt'Rt'th’d. like the Ulit' we t‘llmll'tl. and others in ruins. for when it huild- ing or monument in (‘hinn falls in‘ to (ll‘l'il_\' it is seliloni repaired and; dilapitlzition eveiywhere prevails: The! ('lt)‘ strI-i-[s Hf Slxn'hii“ are \‘t'ry'4 l’f'U‘tht‘tl and i'ilthy but we are told that beyond the walls that {are the streets there are many houses of the rieh with beautiful gnrdens. We swre.’ told of one Whli'h hzis more than ill hundred rooms disposed about severall eourts in “'hieh :i family of four gene-I rations lites and in which there are more than it l‘illllill‘i'il si-rnints. many of them slows. for domestn- slavery is still przll‘lli't‘tl in this rountr); In these squalid streets are SUHH‘ mean looking shops in \\'hli‘ll there is iner- ('hitlltllet‘ of great ’-:ilue line sot-tiny) is said to lw- the greatest silk iniirket of t‘liiim and another the most {am- out jade mnrlwt. for tht‘st' .uiiiniodities in [lill'lltlllill. the cit)" is famous. and yet from the street there is nothing to suggest the Wealth Within Soot-how is sometimes called “The Venice of ('hinn" because it is inter~ set-ted ii); many cunuls. one of whii'h is the famous Grand t‘minl, This uftt‘rntxm or engaged H small house- ‘lroat and made :i tour of some of these vanals and visited a famous Buddhist temple. On our boat H ('hinese farm ily lives. the lumtnmn. his wife And three small i‘hildren. it is till the home they have. There is ii snuill cabin in which four or five t‘lln sit and the deck from “hll‘l‘. it is entered 'has chairs for‘t'our. The lumtmun .Rtands forward on the blunt prow. with a long lumthook to fend off other boats. for the canals are congested 'with truffle. and to help in taking the ésharp turns. and the wife and older !children Work the great seulling oar lat the stern by which the bout is THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS. HIGHLAND'PARK. ILLINOIS All day yesterday the rain fell steadily, as it has must of the time in these parts fur the past twu or three weeks. As we came from Shanghai We saw that the canals were overflowing their banks and that a large part of the country was under water This whole region is a low alluvial plain elevated only a very few feet above sea level and everywhere intersected by canals and waterways. It is a great rice grow- ing region and most of the fields are flooded so that already a large part of the harvest is ruined and unleu the waters quickly subside starvation threatens the population. hrld for ranmm. Amt-r halt an hnur our littlv ('lmpvd up vhnirs wvrv s.“ down and th-crv began a loud Vum-d alh-rcmiun lu-twwn nur K‘Uflllt‘S and n quickly uruwing vruwd nf seeming bandits and pirutus whn appeared nut nf low howls and pressed upnn us. Cutting nut of my than 1 WM mud:- tu undc-rstmui that it was ne-rvssury tn prtx-un- a smnpan m Ul‘de')‘ to cross a widv mum! upon the hank 0! which we fnuml nursvh'vs. Having mim- su far \w decided in we thn thing through nnd again ~\‘tuppiml into our chairs W0 wcrv curried upon a largr- hnat and furriml across the stream. again “‘0 wvnt through devious ways and thrnugh [WU tunnels which wv rightly gursswi tn he gntvs through the gum; l‘it)‘ wall, which WV had won binning uhow us. and finally, 10 make a lung stury short We ar- rived at the gate of (he missum mm- pnund which we entered and 11> our arc-at who! found Mrs. MvNulty wait- ing to welcome us In her (‘hm-rful and hmpitahh- home. uur guide and host missed the train‘ and “'1' found our selves alone at the' station except for a couplv of coolies whom our hostess had sent to carry} nur luggage. They got two chairs: for us with twu bean-rs mu'h undj prosunmhly guw them dirm-tinns to; tarry Us tn the- mission mmpuund. at 5 n” vvvnts we entrusu‘d uur pvrsons t0 ‘ them and started at? in the: dark. int a puurinp: ruin, through narrmn xHJ snn-Hinu alleys and by dc-viuus waysf' until “1- begun In wundvr “hc'tht'r: “1- won- nut helm: kidnuppvd (0 In- hrM for ranmm. Afu-r half an hnur‘ ARRIVED IN “CHINESE BOSTON” SEPT. 16 THEY VISIT MRS. Mch'LTY Smx'huw, ('hlnfl. Septcmhvr mm, 192] The- ( hHl(’.\\' have a saying "Hcaw ~-n uhm'v. Smx'hnw below". by which they rxpn-u their admiration fur think vii); which fur hundreds of yrurs has iwcn ihv favm‘itv dwvlling plan- «If litcrali and ri-iirt-d ofiivials and has “04‘” rvu‘zlrde-d as 1hr zlhndq- of light and learning, in other words a (‘hin- 051' Boston. We arrived hxrv from Shanghai aftvr dark night before inst in n worm ut' rain and the friend whu Wm tn hay- cmm‘ alum: with m M Rev. and Mrs. P. (T. Wolcoli En- joy Chinese Scenery. To Join Their Son at Hankow The water in the canals H filthy. ‘fur they are the conimun M~Wers u! the city, nt-V'erthelehs ynu see the housewives washing their rive and vegetables in it as well as their iclothex and t'ari‘ying great Wuodt'n ‘pails of It into their houses fur du~ :niefitli' urn-s and tea making. lluw Hhe people escape typhnid and other lfilthy diseases is hard to understand, I ,xuppuse that through the age» they Thaw developed immunity tn them land besides they seldom drink raw WPtl’l‘ but Unl} drink tea for Whlt'l‘l of course the water in boiled. but no lfureigner dare eat native {runs nr . vegetables unless they have been must carefully cooked and even the purest lwau‘r to be obtained In boiled ll'furv ,it is drunk. l l l A l m- do behind closed doors arr dunv in public. We saw a boat with many (‘urmarantm sulemnly sitting an out- rigger perches going out for tho fish- ing, and junk: with punt-en sniland- (-n with country produce 0! cu-ry sort, Tho ‘emple which wr 33w this af- ternoon is a wry large and Imposing om, but nothing like so ln-auuful as [hr urea! Japanese lrmplvs WhM'h I wish that I could deu'rihe the things We snw on our cunnl trip. the intimate life of the people whu live in the houses we passed. for in (‘hinu among the common people there seems to be no privu-y and the thinxu which propelled and guided. it is mun-(ed very cleverly sad we thread in and out of the trulfic and under the bridgrs at a very fair rite of speed. HM Nu ruunlv \ 0“ new \ 'l‘he qmc Brnlhn-rn Mrsi [rum ll M-fl» i “H k milkwj IIH (‘ (I sit-Harv heal! h. (hu u” m ro-nm} 'unh‘nl Mn H( D

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