ADVENTURES WITH A CAMERA IN MANY LANDS 



89 



the: face: with the smile wins 



A young bread-seller on a small steamer running between Ningpo and the sacred island 

 of Pu-to (see illustration on the opposite page). "A frank show of friendship and a 

 readiness to_ smile, in spite of toil, cold, or hunger, are among the most prominent of Chinese 

 characteristics" (see page 87). Chinese bread is usually in a form which can be baked 

 quickly and with the minimum of fuel. Poppy and sesame seeds are often used to decorate 

 and flavor the hard loaves. Millions of Chinese do not know the taste of rice, as it grows 

 only in well-watered tracts and the cost of transportation in a country that lacks railways 

 make's the price of the grain prohibitive in the dry, areas in the northern provinces. Poor 

 as the Chinese are, one is seldom far from some vendor of food, whether it be bread, roast 

 chicken or duck, or watermelon seeds, which take the place of peanuts as a Chinese luxury. 



