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CHINESE WOMEN AND POLICEMEN IN A STREET OF PEKING |
DEVOTION'S EVERY GRACE DISPLAYED |
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| Shy and superstitious, Chinese adults of both sexes, particularly women, often resent being photographed and regard the camera with something akin to fear, but a liberal and well-timed "cumshaw" will sometimes bring about what persuasive powers have failed to secure. The ladies, however, being able to walk neither far nor fast on their tiny club feet, easily fall prey to the camera-man | With her bell to call the attention of the god and offerings spread before her, the pious Hindu woman squats on her carpet laid at the foot of the temple steps and tells over an over again the names of the gods as she slips her rosary beads through her fingers |