"THE MAN IN THE STREET" IN CHINA 



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Photograph International Film Service 



A CHINESE TOY MERCHANT PEDDLING HIS WARES IN THE STREET 



Toys of the same sort that delight youngsters of the Western World gladden the hearts 

 of Chinese children. In the bazaars of Peking the shopper finds flutes and drums, tops, 

 diminutive sets of furniture and dishes for dolls, jointed bamboo dragons, tufted camels, 

 and gaudy tigers of painted canvas stuffed with sawdust (see "The City of the Unexpected,'' 

 page 349). 



commercial point of view, care should be 

 taken in the selection of an informant. 



THEY DO NOT "ALL LOOK ALIKE" 



Beware of the much-traveled acquaint- 

 ance who, upon being asked what the 

 Chinese or Japanese look like at home, 

 tells us that "they all look alike'' to him. 

 His information does not extend beyond 

 the resident foreigners, hotels, and steam- 

 ers concerning which he always is ready 



to deluge us with a description applicable 

 to any part of the globe. 



A real man of affairs returning from 

 the Orient would not refer to the Chi- 

 nese or Japanese as "all looking alike'' 

 to him ; he knows better : also, it is not 

 politic. The Orientals resent having this 

 phrase applied to them, feeling it more as 

 a cultural than as a physical slight, an 

 insult to their civilization and its an- 

 tiquity, of which they are justly proud. 



