ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the changes in the architecture and the furnishings of their homes, manner of living, the style of their clothing, as well as in their games, their recreation, and their work. Instead of the old paper windows, brick bed, brick floors, tile roofs, and three room buildings as of yore, we are now seeing those erecting buildings with glass windows, board floors, and corrugated iron roofs, not very unlike those in the foreign missions, legations, and customs compounds. All official documents are now marked with European dates, though old custom in regard to the method of reckoning has not been entirely abandoned in the provinces. The wealth obtained from their mines will enable them to buy British cloth and American flour, Standard oil and Singer sewing machines, bicycles and carriages and automobiles, and thus relieve the tension that has been placed upon the soil.
