Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-24

so she wishes to mark him unfortnnately
he has no birth mark). To do this she
bites the end of one of her tiny fingers to
produce the blood. (The Chinese super,
automatically red this time, runs upon
the stage with bottle Of red ink. With
the blood, or red ink substitute, she marks
piece of cloth, and places it upon the
heart of the child she is about to forsake |
and leave to the gentle mercies of the |
fates. The while she sings grooming |
farewell song. Altar depositing her off |
spring in the tree upon the seat of the |
chair), she withdraws. Soon in come the |
pursuing army; the child cries; one of the |
valiant warriors hunts around in some
clever tumbling pastures and at length
'stumbles on" the infant. Seeing the
blood-written symbols he recognizes the
child, and begs the king to allow him to
take and adopt the child, he having, he
says, lost his own infant by death. The
king consents, and so the childlike Moses
, N Egypt is brought up in 2harcoa5 pal
| ace.
This is as far as the story
was carried on Sunday, and when
it is stated that the actors had
been at it since o'clock in the morn
| ing and continued the whole day till even
| ing same idea Of Chinese drama may
be cleaned as to its uninterminablele length
at least A word here about the music. To
a nice ear quite g beautiful melody was
descernible throughout and the Changing
and crashing and din Of cymbals, goDgs,
etc, all bose out the spirit of the play
most demonstratively. The imitation Of
the childs' cry attracting the attention Of
the soldier was remarkably life like.
} The interest taken in these plays by the
GLOBE correspondent so took the heart of
J wealthy pageant merchant that he had
, the honor of an invitation to the mer-
chants house, where the GLOBE readers
: are assured there was anything but squel-
L lar and degradation, as we Christians arc
led to believe of these pagan people. car
assure you everything spoke of
!. REFINEMENT AND COMFORT.
9 The most exquisite and costly gems ant
d the richest needlework garments adorned
the household beauties-beauties clothet
Q in the most becoming of al
o adornments, modesty and virtue
i but of them at another and more conven
:. lent time. One word, however, did no
|, Wagner borrow his grand thoughts of har
70 mony from the heather Chinee, and is no
y Oscar Wilde, the dreamy, poetic, aesthetic
u long-haired Oscar, indebted to those pee
pie for many of his ideas-all the ideas h
IL is supposed to have advanced? His pos
his walk, the crank of his neck, the baol
u ward graceful bend of spine, and finger
IL and all are identical with those of the O.
lestial.
The wealthy Chinese merchants OF Por
1T land invited the Willard guests to bar
al quet which I will describe another time
le one banquet in one letter is as much as
D. can afford, and as much IS the GLoI
r readers can digest without adding anoth'
10 of birds nest soup, stewed beetles, gossa
rs, mer wing broth, roast dragon fy-pure
III aesthetic though they are. L ought, nov
st ever, before closing this, give some i'd
90 of the libretto of Chinese opera. Lii
IN the modern one in vogue with Us barba
o. ians, the Celestial opera is part
j. recitative, partly set to melodies SO d.
at icately shaded that it often requir
al the most accustomed ear to detect the /
on fnitely fine cadences. Semi tones to
ks Chinese are coarse; demi-semi tones al
ur even semi demi-semi tones are practical
IN his well schooied voice. Our minor seal
of and diatonics have been for centuries on
Mt used in demonstrative music of the mo
Ia roberto kind. But when the fortessimi
in necessary, the Chinese, who, like Osci
no believes in extremes, uses, as one OF O
an guests remarked, ffthtessimo and sexte
ed simo. But a specimen of the ibret
in "Mee-ah, une-tee long stay! Too chez w
'es tong ah-she ca-she wee pee boo WOO no
is, we pee. Fay see washee we shee." Viii
", interpreted runs thus: My baby cam
as stay long from you. leave you with tea
nd for who will wipe your little nose and wa
* your pretty face! And now, after this {
a. fort, will anyone say that the GLOBE CT
We respondent does not understand the me-
IL refined of, all tongues, the heather Chine
se ZIP