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On the 6th of June we left central China for Tientsin and further north, sailing by coastwise steamer from Shanghai, again plowing through the turbid waters which give literal exactness to the name Yellow Sea. Our steamer touched at Tsingtao, taking on board a body of German troops, and again at Chefoo, and it was only between these two points that the sea was not strongly turbid. Nor was this all. From early morning of the 10th until we anchored at Tientsin, 2:30 P. M., our course up the winding Pei ho was against a strong dust-laden wind which. | ABOUT TIENTSIN On the 6th of June we left central China for Tientsin and further north sailing by coastwise steamer from Shanghai again plowing through the turbid waters which give literal exactness to the name Yellow Sea. Our steamer touched at Tsingtao taking on board a body of German troops and again at Chefoo and it was only between these two points that the sea was not strongly turbid. Nor was this all. From early morning of the 10th until we anchored at Tientsin 2 30 P. M. our course up the winding Pei ho was against a strong dust-laden wind which left those who had kept to the deck as grey as though they had ridden by automobile through the Colorado desert so the soils of high interior Asia are still spreading eastward by flood and by wind into the valleys and far over the coastal plains. Over large areas between Tientsin and Peking and at other points northward toward Mukden trees and shrubs have been systematically planted in rectangular hedgerow lines to check the force of the winds and reduce the drifting of soils planted fields occupying the spaces between. It was on this trip that we met Dr. Evans of Shunking Szechwan province. His wife is a physician practicing among the Chinese women and in discussing the probable rate of increase of population among the Chinese it was stated that she had learned through her practice that very many mothers had borne seven to eleven children and yet but one two or at most three were living. It was said there are many customs and practices which determine this high mortality among children one of which is that of feeding them meat before they have teeth the mother masticating for the children with the result that often fatal convulsions follow. A Scotch physician of long experience in Shantung who took the steamer at Tsingtao replied to my question as to the usual size of families in his circuit I do not know. It depends on the crops. In good years the number is large in times of famine the girls especially are .

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