Englisch: John Thomson: Von den vier Köpfen in diesen Bildern dargestellt, zeigen die beiden oberen sind fair Arten des betagten Arbeiter in China. Darby und Joan haben für viele Jahre miteinander verbunden gewesen, und ihr Leben hat eine einheitliche Szene von Entbehrungen und Mühen. Zwei Generationen haben sich nun um sie herum gewachsen, und ihre Söhne und Enkel haben Sie als das Brot - Gewinner der Familie gelungen. Die alte Frau noch beschäftigt sich in der helleren häusliche Pflichten; sie ist geschickt mit ihrer Nadel und von unschätzbarem Wert als Krankenschwester in der Zeit der Krankheit. Ihr Haar ist dünn und weiß geworden, aber sie noch Kleider es mit n

• Bildanbieter: History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Foto
• Bild-ID: P7GK77
• Dateigröße: 14,3 MB (542,1 KB Komprimierter Download)
• Freigaben (Releases): Model - nein | Eigentum - nein
• Format: 1950 x 2564 px | 16,5 x 21,7 cm | 6,5 x 8,5 inches | 300dpi
• Aufnahmedatum: 21. Januar 2014

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English: John Thomson: OF the four heads shown in these pictures, the two upper ones are fair types of the aged labourers of China. Darby and Joan have for many years been associated together, and their life has been a uniform scene of hardships and toil. Two generations have now grown up around them, and their sons and grandsons have succeeded them as the bread-winners of the family. The old woman still busies herself in the lighter domestic duties; she is skilful with her needle, and invaluable as a nurse in time of sickness. Her hair has grown thin and white, but she still dresses it with neatness and care. The old man, who is venerated as the head of the family, gratifies his taste for information by spelling through the cheap literature of the day. This commonly consists of what to us would appear tedious and uninteresting tales, which appeal greatly to the credulity of the reader. The popular books arc printed in the more simple and elementary characters of the language, to suit the capacities of the unlettered class. The old man's eyes failed him years ago, and the use of spectacles was reluctantly forced upon him. These spectacles are of native manufacture, having larger and heavier frames than those which our great-grandfathers wore. The lenses, like our own, are double convex or double concave, to suit peculiarities of vision ; and being made of the finest rock crystal, they possess advantages only appreciated by us at a comparatively recent date. It seems that the Chinese have not so extended this knowledge as to construct microscopes and telescopes. But this branch of optics is now being taught by foreigners in the Foochow Training School. The two lower heads are those of a son and daughter belonging to the same class. The male is stripped to the waist, as is his wont during the hours of toil. His plaited queue is at such times coiled up out of the way and fixed with a bamboo bodkin at the back of the head. When work is over he will put on his ja 21 An