wardrobe, once it was procured, could be maintained with an annual expenditure of $2.25 of our currency, this sum procuring the materials for both repairs and renewals.
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Fig. 73.—A Kiangsu country woman in winter dress.
The intense individual economy, extending to the smallest
matters, so universally practiced by these people, has
sustained the massive strength of the Mongolian nations
through their long history and this trait is seen in their
handling of the fuel problem, as it is in all other lines.
In the home of Mrs. Wu, owner and manager of a 25-acre
rice farm in Chekiang province, there was a masonry kang
seven by seven feet, about twenty-eight inches high, which
could be warmed in winter by building a fire within. The
top was fitted for mats to serve as couch by day and as
a place upon which to spread the bed at night. In the
Shantung province we visited the home of a prosperous
