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Hotels In China

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Day
21
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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The hotels are usually grouped within a square or two of one another. Each one seeks to attract guests by high-sounding titles, says Lippincott's. For example, in Cantón are hotels which flaunt the signs of "The Fortúnate Star," "The Golden Profits," (an unusually frank conf ession for a landlord to make) , "The Rank-Conf erring" and "The Happiness." The f ood is not EO bad, but the traveler who goes to one of these houses to sleep will wish that he liad gone to another. The bedrooms are small,, thin-walled boxes in which you may hear the breathing of your next neighbor or be kept awake half the night by the conversation of people at the other end of the hall, or, worse still, be almost stifled by the smoke from an opium pipe which is being indulgeóT in by the man across the passageway. Tlie tea saloons furnish employment to singers and ventriloquists or elocutionists, who are hired by the proprietor to entertain the men who gather there to drink tea and gossip. Upon small tables are placed trays holding a variety of cakes and preserves, which are serred with each cup of delicious, freshly male tea. One house of entertainment peculiar to China is the dog-and-cat-meat restaurant. This does not mean that household pets are there brought to be f ed, but that Tabby and Fido are served up in stews. According to prices charged for other food, these stews are rather expensive - especially if the cat or dog chaneed to be black and therefore more nutritious, according to popTiTar notion.

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Ann Arbor Courier