A picture of a good, inexpensive restaurant depicts its simple décor and variety of patrons. It cannot be called a 'typical' Chinese restaurant, for there is no such thing. In size, shape, ornamentation, variety of food and drink, patrons, and staff, there is little uniformity.

Upon reaching the park, where kites are flying and children gamboling, we see a man practicing one of several martial arts forms, Taiji (Tai Chi). This form involves slow movement of arms and legs with gradual revolutions of the body, and evokes a mental state that I cannot imagine unless it is like transcendental meditation.

With all the hustle and bustle of this great country, many of the people still have time to exercise, play games and meditate. The subject, incidentally, had no objection to being photographed, unlike an exception earlier encountered.

The high point of this day's adventure is a boat ride on Don't Worry Lake, a small body of water near the center of the city. The battery-powered boat has room for four people and sails along at about four to six knots. My experience in the Navy served me well in using the two controls, one to turn the motor on and off and the other the steering wheel. The cost of an hour's travel is 20 yuan or about $2.40. The lake is rich in fish and small freshwater lobsters.

These pictures are of the developed and largely affluent part of Nanjing. There is, however, another world that lies within the southern part of the city. Later we shall visit it.

As Ecclesiastes says, everything has its season. There is a time to build and a time to tear down that which was built. We may add that there is a place to build and a place to tear down that which was built. Nowhere in the world is this more brilliantly illustrated than in a Chinese city.

Tomorrow I expect to visit and photograph the tearing down of what may be called hovels to make a wider road and, perhaps, a scene of upscale commercial shops.