This, we note, is richly adorned with valuable tapestries and silken hangings, and the rich colours attract the eye at once.

If you wish to sit down you can, and enjoy the novelty of the scene.

For here are easy chairs which invite you to rest.

In your inspection of the place you venture to peer into the room back of this, and you perceive at once that there is the lounging place of the establishment.

You see men on couches perfectly at ease and undisturbed by your presence, smoking cigarettes or opium, the Chinaman's delight.