October 23, 1917 - (continued) An upper class Chinese is rarely or never seen in public with his family. From our conception of life, they miss the chief pleasure, the free association with their wives or sweethearts at all times. Women may be seen in pairs holding hands and boys likewise, but never the two opposite sexes are thus seen. The parks in China are a sad waste as far as the tender passion is concerned. Dining tonight at the hotel, Rhea took me to a table where two men were seated. One was Carroll, a Civil Engineer whom I had met in Durango, Mexico ten years ago. He remembered me well. He has been in China only one year and that in the upper Yangtse in Szhewan near Cheng-tu. Carroll is a Yale graduate and a Florida man and has only recently come out of Mexico. He is the last man I should ever expect to see in Peking.