_Sic transit gloria mundi_! On the walls of the restaurant were various Chinese decorations.

The inevitable lantern was in evidence.

Here also were tablets with sentences in the language of the Celestials.

But there was one thing that struck me forcibly as I examined the various objects in the rooms.

In the rear half of the restaurant, on the north side of the room, stood a Chinese safe, somewhat in fashion like our ordinary American safe.