was seen in many Chinese shops in Hongkong and other cities, operated by Chinese men and women, purchased, freight prepaid, at two-thirds the retail price in the United States. Such are the indications of profit to manufacturers on the home sale of home-made goods while at the same time reaping good returns from a large trade in heathen lands, after paying the freight.
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Fig. 35.— Statuary floral pieces in florist's garden, Happy Valley, Hongkong, China.
Industrial China, Korea and Japan do not observe our
weekly day of rest and during our walk around Happy
Valley on Sunday afternoon, looking down upon its
terraced gardens and tiny fields, we saw men and women
busy fitting the soil for new crops, gathering vegetables for
market, feeding plants with liquid manure and even
irrigating certain crops, notwithstanding the damp, foggy,
showery weather. Turning the head of the valley, attention
was drawn to a walled enclosure and a detour down
