As soon as the 200,000 Chinamen ordered by Mynheer KOOPMAN-SCHOOP arrive in this country, a good business can be driven by Yankee toothpick makers in supplying them with chopsticks.

Anybody who can make a shoe-peg or wooden toothpick can make a chopstick.

It is to be hoped that the chopstick may ultimately be adopted here instead of the knife and fork.

"Or in ivory chopsticks, oolong tea, imitation jade, litchi nuts and preserved leeches!" groaned Tutt.

"There is one course, gentlemen, the treasure of a people who are today a tale and a mockery in the world, wherein have thrust their hands the greatest gluttons of the western regions of the earth" Here he pointed with his chopsticks to Sandoval, who was struggling with a refractory chicken-wing.

He set up a minimalist home: one plate, a bowl and a mug, chopsticks.

" Mo placed her chopsticks neatly across her plate and wiped her mouth with a napkin.

He was conversing, he realized, with each move of his chopsticks, each glance around the room.

Luckily we are not condemned to eat it with chopsticks, for forks are not prohibited at the Grand Transasiatic table.

Among its furniture, the ivory chopsticks are the most novel.

Then porcelain plates and spoons of the finest quality, and ivory chopsticks tipped with pearl, were distributed about, and the birds'-nest soup was brought on.

When the Antique heard of this, she swallowed her chopsticks in a fit of rage and spite, and died of suffocation.

Frances Nash (W); 17Nov72; R539989. West chopsticks.

Frances Nash (W); 17Nov72; R539989. West chopsticks.

As the fork grew out of the chopstick, the spoon was probably suggested by the ladle, a form of implement employed alike by the baker and the cook; for the early tool which we see in the hands of the operative in the oven more nearly resembles in the bowl a spoon than a shovel.

The knife preceded the spoon, and the fork, which had been introduced into Italy in the eleventh century, and which strikes one as a fortuitous development of the Oriental chopstick, came last.

The family sit down to their repast on the deck; the men keep an eye to windward and a hand on the tiller; the mother knots the cord that goes around the baby's waist into an iron ring, and, feeling secure against the bantling's falling overboard, chats sociably, occasionally enforcing a mild reproof to a vagabond son by a tap on the head with her chopstick.