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manufacture. Some of them were stunning; others 
were not so handsome. We priced a blue and white, 
glorious shade of blue and exceedingly pretty pattern 
worked into it, just right for a top notehy bedroom 
rug, 28x18, $28. I have wished a hundred times that 
it was in America waiting for me. Then we looked at 
smaller ones, about as big as the one in the bath room, 
also blue and white with beautiful patterns, and 
ended, if you please, by buying two. I know you will 
think they are handsome when you see them. 
The dust here has been perfectly fearful, so bad 
in fact that the whole atmosphere, in spite of the sun 
shining brightly, looks hike a heavy fog. But yester- 
day it rained a bit and so it is a little better today. 
Give my love to everyone and with a great deal 
to vourself from 
Ros. 
S. S. Kiuling. 
Han Kow, May 30, 1907. 
Dear Robert : 
We have enjoyed China so much more than we 
ever expected to that we have been about quite a little. 
First we went to Hong Kong and Canton and up the 
Si Kiang to Woo Chow — all very pretty and inter- 
esting. Canton is a marvel of filth, stench, ete. Then 
we went to Shanghai where we had to spend a week as 
I was laid up with a slight indisposition. Then we 
took a funny little tub, the Koon Shing by name, and 
went to Chefoo (famous as the place where the Chin- 
ese junks started for their blockade running to Port 
Arthur during the last war). Then we went on, after 
twenty-four hours’ delay, through fog past the Taku 
