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OF Chief Justice Shaw Of Massa-
chusetts, wins was one of the
plainest of men, 81 feel toward
him as the South Sea Islander
feels towards his idol; he sees that he
is ugly, but he knows that he is
great" The most striking case per-
haps of this complete reversal of judg-
ment under the influence of caste is to
be found in those two tribes described
by the author of IzOo Happy Years
IN Ceyton, the Rock Veddahs and
the Rodiyas. The Rock Veddahs are
s.unted, hideous, and filthy; they
live in secluded caves and holes; they
eat bats and rats, and make their
scanty clothing from the bark of
trees; but the Singhalase regard
them as of the very highest caste,
and it would be no disgrace for
a woman of good social position
to marry a Rock Veddah. On the
other hand. the very greatest disgrace
that could be inflicted on such a
woman would be to marry her to a
Rodiya, although these last are a race
distinguished for beauty, at least in
youth, and gentle and innocent by
nature. The Rodiyas cannot enter a
temple or a village; they are forbidden
to till the soil OF draw water from a
we'll; they cannot build a house or
divide a burden into two bundles;
their shadow must not fall on a stream
lest it be polluted; no member of
another caste may touch them with
out disgrace; yet any n may shoot
them without blame. All this is sup
posed to be in consequence of the act
of an ancestor two thousand years
ago, who inveigled a king into eating
human flesh. AS a consequence the
beautiful race is at the foot of the
social scale, the ugly and repulsive at
the top. Yet which of us has not en-
countered in ordinary society the
representatives of the Rodiyas and
the Rock Veddahs?-T. W. Higgin-
son in Haaper's Bazaar.
Marriage and Home Life in China.
Love and romance play little part in
the marriages in China. The China
man who enters the harbor of matri-
mony looks upon the matter as a full
filinent of a duty which he owes to his
ancestors.
The custom of the Chinese to marry
off their som and daughters at an
early age does not seem advisable to
the Europeans. 1t is also the rule in
China that unions only take place be-
tweenfalnilies OF equal social and finan-
cial standing. Disregard Of this rule
would cause subsequent trouble inva-
riably. The custom of early mar
riage is founded, moreover, on princi-
piles incomprehensible to the western
mind. The boy and girl Joined in
wedlock do not form a new family,
but rather the youngest branch of the
family tree, upon which they are
henceforth dependent. The duty of
parents toward their sons does not
end with their marriage; they are
obliged to care for them after that
time also. There is a great disad-
vantage in this system. The son be-
ing under the eyes of the parents as
long as they are alive really never be-
come Independent.
All members of a family live, when
possible, under one roof. and even
after the death of the parents the
sons continue, as q rule, to live to-
gether in the family home. When
the father dies, the Oldest brother as
sumes his place as the head of the
family, and when the mother dies, the
wife of the Oldest brother takes her
place. But again the system has
many advantages. As the girls are
married very young they are unac-
quainted, as a rule, with the duties of
a housewife. But in entering the
households of their fathers-in-law
they learn the needful lessons in fam
lily economy.-Ercbange.
Row the Lovely Lillian Lives.
Lillian Russell has q complexion
like a. rosa leaf and how she MANAGES