The herald., 1895-04-07
Symbolism
The Strong Point OF
the Chinese
BY HoGABooM.

IL Ine SulneSe WHO nave ueclueu 10 par
ticipate in the pageants of La Fiesta
should be induced to give up their plan
of a grand symbolic feature, and present
instead their ideas of fairyland, as has
been suggested. Now the Chinese have
about as much idea of Fairyland as the
hens have of Theosophy, though possibly
in saying so l am making comparison
odious to the hen. Anyway Chnaman
has no idea of Fairylana worth talking
about, while as a symbolist he is able to
more than hold his own against all corners.
The Chinaman is Just as peculiar as
can be about some things, anyway. You
go to telling him it's a fairyland you
want, and not having any fairyland OF
his own, he'll go to work and get up a
cheap imitation of somebody elses
fairyland, and the result would give n
COW the blind staggers. Naturally, the
Fiesta people will want to avoid any
such thing as that if possible. What you
want to do is to let HIM alone. He's got
an idea about this parade business him.
self, if it isn't visible from the outside.
Fell him you want a Chinese parade.
Then take him by the scuff of his neck
and the slack of his cambria trouserettes
and throw him into the middle of his
own resources. He'll be in the line OF
march at the proper time with a feature
that couldn't be equaled this side of
tention and admiration and scare more
horses. than anything a white man could
conceive i'll twelve years, il he conceiv ed
Sundays and holidays and overtime.
He'll take a Chinese story.-maybe Il
legend-and it will be bigger lie, per-
haps, than a patent medicine advertise
ment, but he'll work it out in that parade
so that, if you only knew it, you might
stand along the sidewalk and read it all
IN the gorgeous line. He will arrange
his glittering array with careful attention
to every detail. so that the story will be
told as the pageant passes.
Possibly John might relate in his
parade the charming little story of Sung
Schu-jueh Fob, little bit of fiction that
has thus far escaped the Fifth reader
and the Sunday paper, and is still quite
new to most people. I'll tell tits
short
1t was in the spring of 472 when Gin
Dong Wong, emperor OF one OF the most
prosperous nations OF Eastern Asia, be-
gan to feel his oats. lie had an army
which would have made our standing
army seem like the GarvanZa chaingang,
it was that large. This army was COM
manded by noted warrior named All
Fan. who would rather fight than play
fan-tan, though he was no highbinder.
The emperor was at this time doing
very well on a modest little income of
800, 000, 900 ven, being able to take his
family to the theater occasionally, living
well at home, and was even paying for
bicycle on the instal,ment plan. How
ever, it occurred to him that he might be
doing even better than that, and he de-
cided to send his army out to round up
the army OF the emperor of Sin Sin Quok,
q neighborng nation.
He figured that by combinating' the
two nations and cutting down expenses
by making one set of officers do the work
OF both dynasties, he could eventually pay
up on the wheel and start to laying up
little something against the time he
would want to make the first payment on
a 473 pattern, and give his old wheel to
General All Tan. His wife, the Empress
also wanted a sewing machine, but he
didn't know about that.
But the Emperor of Sin Sin Quok was
up to trick or two himself. When he
received Emperor Sin Dong Wong's po-
litely worded note asking him to pungle
up his empire and avoid trouble he Just
sat down and wrote back Nay. nay,
Pauline, don't be so ierksome all at once;
give me show for my red chip" and in
closing, after stating that he and his fam
lily were well, and hoping this would find
Sin Dong Wong and his family the same
he signed himself, yours to come and
get, ETC..
: Gin Dong Wong wrote right back, say
ing that he would everlastingly do so,
and that he had an army that could do
that little act and make believe it was
attending a Sunday school picnic all the
while it was doing it, To which the
other emperor replied that it didn't cut
any ice with him what kind of an army
ne had. "Shoot it at me, - he said, II
thirst for gore,'' He got it,
Now this emperor OF Sin Sin Quok
didn't have any great general like All
Tan, nor he didn't have any big army,
but he had a daughter, charming thing,
who was brave and valiant, and wi o
was, in fact about the first coming
woman which history tells us OF. She
was the woman who started this craze for
dividing the hair and the skirts in the
middle. She wore both her hair and her
skirts half-and-half.
So the old man says to her: HTansy,
my dear, you've been talking about what
woman could do if she only had show.
ever since you started to read the woman's
page in the Sunday papers. Now, / want
you to get out and do something. Take
that army of mine and 60 out and get
All Tan's scalp lock and III stay here and
help with the house work. -
That was just the sort of layout Tansy
had been looking for for some time. When
she got within a few miles of where the
great warrior, All Tan, was camped with
his grand army she rode on ahead of her
army piece and from little eminenoe
surveyed the enemy'S position through
powerful field glass. Suddenly her eye
fell upon All Tan He was a noble look
ing warrior. anyway, and when arrayed
as he now was, in his gorgeous trapplngs
of war, he would almost compel second
glance from the president of a woman
suffrage club 50 handsome was he. Tansy
looked at him through the glass for some
moments.
Meanwhile the noble little band she
commanded had become anxious at her
long absence, and had started after her.
The leaders, her lieutenants and captains,
were just rising the brow of the hill when
they saw her start on a dead gallop
straight for the enemy's camp, and the
foremost thought they heard her exclaim
''Pshaw, I'm not going to try to be
modern woman any longer"
Tansy had fallen in love at rst sight
(through the glass; with the notebook
ing General All Fan, and was after him,
single handed. Her noble little army
came laundering after her, however,
thinking she was looking for trouble OF
course. General All Fan was taken COM
pletely by surprise, his powerful army
was sent flying in commission and he was
taken prisoner.
Finding himself in the hole All Tan
consented to marry the girl. She carried
him in triumph back to her father who
gave his blessing, and the war was
ended.
This may seem like simple little tale,
and SO it is; but Cinnamon have been
telling it, in parallels, for several thou
sand years and it seems as good as new