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 CHILD EATING RICE WITH CHOPSTICKS.

Chinese eat an enormous number of things which the Western turns from, or which he doesn't know of. As a rule the Chinese are good cooks, and the food is wholesome, steaming being the favourite method. Rice is the staff oIlife to the masses, who eat it mixed with fried cabbage or some other flavouring ingredient. It is seldom eaten alone. So common and universal is rice eating that, while in French the equivalent of "How do you do?" is "How do you carry yourself?" and in Italian "How do you stay?" in Chinese the equivalent is "Have you eaten rice?"