Letter from L. Moon, March 3, 1881

11. combine to render a Chinese home anything but attractive in the eyes of the "foreigner in far Cathay." The best specimens of comfortable living are to be found mainly in the cities, and occasionally in a large town. The homes of the country people are dirtier, more smoke-blackened, the furniture less or more dust-covered, and the yards are usually filled with farm produce. Add to this the pig-pen under the window, and the stable a few feet from the door, and the charms of such rural life are more readily imagined than described. Chinese houses having been depictured above, albeit imperfectly, the next article will tell of the people who inhabit them. L. Moon. Tungchow, March 3, 1881. [In pencil: "Incomplete letter- Librarian, Jenkins Library, F.M.B. 1966"]