Evening journal., 1890-06-11
SIGHTS IN OTHER LANDS.
Mrs. Lucy Bainbridgs's Lecture In Del
ware avenue Baptist Church.


Mrs Lucy s. Ba bridge entertained
an audience Of about $50 persons In the
Delaware Avenue Baptist Church last
evening, by lecture on the subject:
Sights and Scenes In Other Lands
She began her lecture by speaking of
ourselves and our ancestors. tabeau
of the ancient Druids was first shown
The Druids were in the act Of preparing
human sacrifice. Mrs. Bainbridge gave
a very interesting description of the
Japanese conveyance.
In speaking Of Japan, she said 1--WE
are apt to think of Japan as country OF
tea cups ana saucers. but 1t has very
beautiful scenery and lakes, besides a
great manMmountains. When a man In
America likes girl he has no way Of
telling whether she is married or single,
but in Japan all this is told by the man
ner OF wearing the hair and sash The
various religions in Japan are Shintoism
and Buddhism.
The Shintoes' worship Is simply prayer
TO looking glass which has some white
paper at the side.
The Buddhists pray by chewing paper
which has the prayer written on It,
These spit balls they throw at the idols. :"
A tableau, showing a woman and boy
before Buddha, was given The prayer
which is said to him Is, 20, Buddha, we
cake refuge in thee, Mrs Bainbridge
showed japanese pillow and gossamer.
The next country described was China.
Here the means of conveyance Is by boat
or In box slung on the backs Of mules
by poles. There is also much riding on
wheelbarrow, on which the load must be
exactly balanced. Mrs Bainbridge re-
lated the story of ride in a wheelbar-
row on which her weight was balanced
by dead hog She related stories of the
economy of the people in southern China.
/ The southern part of this country
is the only part in which cats and dogs
are eaten. THE religion here is the wor-
ship of many different gods. the greatest
of whom is Confucius. These people
believe that their souls are divided into
into three parts after death, one part OF
which wanders about the earth. one re-
mains in the house and one is buried
with the body
A tableau showing the worship to
Confucius was given Mrs. Bainbridge
showed paper god. which is stuck over
with molasses candy She showed also
the shoes of the women. whose feet are
bandaged. The smallest of these shoes was
but two and one half inches In length.
She showed also the shoes of Burmah.
and gave a full description Of their
houses. Siam was next described. A
tableau was shown, In which a woman
was praying.
The prayer consists Of saying over aud
over the words Ran" and "Orryn. The
people here say their prayers by machin.
cry, by simply turning stone on which
the prayers have been pasted BmmaL
was the next country described A
tableau was given, in which the worship
was shown. A Burmese wedding wa.
shown and the costumes Of the paopl,
exhibited
India was given prominent place ii
, the description. There are 5000, 90
gods worshipped In this country. Sew
eral tableaHx were given
Egypt, Turkey and Mandelay were de
scribed, all the worship being given b,
tableaux. The dress and worship o
some Russians were also shown. Tn,
tableaux were very beautiful and tn
audience heartily enjoyed the lecture.
The following persons took part: DR.
and Mrs. Bainbridge, Miss Nellie Bennett
Miss Alice Whitaker, Lorena Emmons
Miss Flora Ayers Miss Sallie Beerbrower
Miss May Mcclure, Miss Maggie Ayers
Miss Lydia Wood ward, Dora Westcott
Frank Walker, Walter Cook, William
Jennie McMullen, Florry Saunders
Beerbrower, Charles Maroney, Johl
Booth, Wellington Pierce