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plying OF VINE and food
she may take no step of her own
motion, and may come to no conclu-
sion in her own mind.
Beyond the threshold of her own
apartments, she should not be known
either for evil or for good"
There you have it, notwithstand-
ing China has produced the Empress
Dowager, who manages to keep the
world guessing. The Chinese woman,
as against the dol1-like amiability Of
the Japanese, is a parsonage and a
companion, though the rod of Confu-
cius hangs over her head.
If anyone should wish to typify
motherliness, the Chinese mother
should be taken-an old Chinaman,
even, would serve. Nowhere have |
seen such loving, protecting qualities
developed Personally, do not think
they spank the children sufficiently,
the Chinese youngster showing more
temper and determination than the
baby Jap. / have seen a China boy of
two throw himself by the roadside,
and kick and scream as if he was all
American child, while his mother used
moral suasion and time.
The China woman carries her baby
on her back in square crochetted
sling. In Canton thousands of Chi
nese families live in sampans on the
Pearl River, the women and older
girls sculling the boats. Rarely a
mother has not a child on her back
child is older, he is tethered to peg
on deck. When old enough to be free,
he has an empty gourd tied to his
back, SO that if he falls overheard he
will float until he is rescued
Early in the morning the mothers
duck them in the water for their bath
The toilet is simple enough, being
sort of mason's apron with pockets
and an amulet on string. A child's
clothes is exactly like its elders, all
the world in China dressing alike, the
differences being in such minor things
as hair dressing and earrings and the
fastening of the shirt.
However dirty the Chinese may be,
they are clean cooks. It was a pleas
ure to see the little girls washing and
preparing the vegetables for the cook
ing. The dishes are elaborate. Such
peeping in the pot, now adding this.
now putting in that, and wearing an
air of experience very comical in such
little maids.
In land where food is conveyed
to the mouth with pair of slender
sticks, it is necessary that it should be
cut up in advance. This simplifes
greatly the trouble of serving Large
dishes are unnecessary, and, conse-
quently. little cupboard room The
Chinese, as ourselves, sit at COM
mon table. The cooking is done chiefly
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the true aborigines of Sarmatia, who
included all the Finnish tribes. In the
course of years their race in the East
intermixed with the Siberian horse
men, and in the end drove into the
South to appear as alien foes them
selves.
Imperial Rome held her eastern
wall of Empire against the Asiatics
and turned them. Beaten back again
and again in the South, they found
their way at last through the Ural
Mountains and poured into Sarmatia,
and thence threatened all Europe.
And what brought these Asiatic
conquerors into Europe?
Terrible and invincible they came,
sweeping away the civilizations of the
fair Goths, overwhelming the Slavic
rulers, and building a hideous struc-
ture on the ruins; but terrible and in
vincible as they were, they were only
fugitives themselves, fleeing before
things even more terrible than they
Far, far away, in half-known China
and Korea, was the cause Where
Russia stands now facing the Pacific,
her fate began in the dim beginning
of the Middle Ages.
A Never Ceasing Movement Toward
the West.
There, in the crowded land, was a
grim, remorseless pressure to the
West, year after year, century after
century.
The slit-eyed yellow men were
striving scientifically for room. And
with every throb of that mighty
struggle, the weak tribes east of Sar-
malta gave way and piled against the
dam of the Ura1 Mountains.
Suddenly the gateway of the hills
burst under it. And through it burst
the first of the Asians, terrified by a
wrath behind, desperate with fear, to
seize new home for themselves.
They were not invaders, seeking
triumph. They were men in deadly
fear, seeking refuge.
The first fierce horde to sweep over
the plains was gathered along the ST.
berian and Central Asian line-the
Ugri, descended from the Finnish
Chudes, but changed almost entirely
to Mongolians by their long existence
in the table lands of Siberia, so that
early history often calls them Chinese.
They are known now as the Black
Huns.
Fearful bestial, Unsuitable, they
flooded Russia and, hideous with the
blind savagery of northern China, they
erected the first Monaghan Empire
north of the Black Sea.
Following in their footsteps came
the Bulgars, divided into the two
tribes of the White and Black Bulgars,
both of Tartar blood.
Back and forth through lower Rus
STA swayed Hun and Bulgar, now en-
battled, now allied. At last, in union
they took all of Crimea from the Ro-
mans except the two cities Sebasto-
pol and Kaffa, and were beaten back
only before the gates of Constants
nople itself
And then, suddenly from the Cas-
plan shores rode more tens of thou
sands. Where the Huns and the Bull
gars had been fearful to see, the new
invaders, the Avars, were beautiful
They were tall and handsome. They
wore chain armor and even their
horses were clad in mail They fell
upon the Huns and Bulgars and either
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conquered or assimilated them, SO
that after 573 4. D. the two races
seem to have become one.
And these conquerors, too, were
fugitives They were being driven
westward by the Turcomans, who had
yielded to the pressure of the great
Tartar Khans to the east of them.
On the slopes of the Caucasus the
Avar race still survive as the Awars
or Uars, race as warlike as were the
early ancestors.
But by this time the Tartar and
Mongol was not the only invader.
The Scandinavian long-beards, the
Longobards, had spread from the con-
quered Elbe lands and had driven
their wedge into the country far to the
South
SO from the Carpathians to the
Black Sea fell and rose&a tide of
strange, irreconci1able races. And all
at once the Ural gateway opened
again, and Longobard, Hun, Avar and
Roxo1ani were overwhelmed by forty
Tartar and Turco tribes-the Chazars
under their forty Khans.
Northward fed the Slavs and Russ
niaks now, and did not find refuge till
they reached the Finnish Gulf, where
they in turn drove out the Finnish
Mordwens and Muromens, and finally
founded Novgorod.
They never ceased to battle with
the Chazars In $50 they entered into
treaty with the piratical Danes, who
had attacked them continually. At the
head of these Russniak city builders,
Ruric and his Viking brothers Sineus
and Truvor, with Prince CORN of
Denmark, extended the rule of the
Russniaks to the river Duna on the
west and the Volga on the east, and
made Kiev their capital city
The Danes fortified their power by
constant accretion from the Viking
strongholds of Sweden, Norway and
Denmark, till Ruric and his descend
ants had stamped themselves so in
delibly on Russia that they could af-
| ford to become Russ in language and
habits, and founded the line of Rus
sia's rulers.
And in the meantime the Chazars
had changed from nomads to agricul-
turalists and traders. The Russia OF
to-day was beginning.
The Beginning of the Russia of To.
Day.
The Firms were driven north to the
| White Sea- Southwark the Russians
advanced to the foot of the Caucasus
They attacked Constantinople and
| failed; but they brought back with
them Greek civilization and the
Greek Church, and from o4I the Rus
sian clergy obeyed the Patriarch al
| Constantinople.
Again the gateway of the Ural
opened and fantastic horde came in
the vanguard of the dirty, ragged
miserable Mongols of Central Asia.
| Fleeing before the pursuing Cuman
or Polovtzi, who were as miserable as
themselves, the Petchineges fell upor
the Chazar domain, and for more thar
two centuries thereafter occupied the
territory from the Don along the
Black Sea, to what is now the western
boundary of Russia. They ate the
raw flesh of cats and wolves. They
wore long, flowing Tartar garment:
and spoke Tartar.
Toward the middle of the eleventh
century their foes, the Cunani, ap
peared and subdued the Petchineges
and during the eleventh and twelfth
centuries the whole of Southern Rus
STA is called Cumani.
The Cunari tongue was used less
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TFHESE titles that the rulers of
Russia give themselves when
they solemnly place the
crown on their own heads
ecause no other being on earth is
reat enough to do it for them, serve
hint at what Russia is.
In many respects it is the most re-
larkab1e Empire that ever was up
cared.
Other European Empires have been
onquered and been assimilated by the
-onquerors; or they have assimilated
he conquerors.
Russia's river-sp1it plains, long after
lie Frankish and Germanic races had
egun to make homogeneous nations,
yere the scenes of barbarian battles.
Iorde after horde of conquerors rode
Ito the land, ruled and stayed;
orde after, horde followed, conquered
hose who had preceded, and stayed.
Each invader stamped his own i'm
rint on Russia and stamped it deep.
Tartar, Mongol, Kalmuck, Turco-
IAN, Dane, Norseman, Roman, Slav
nd German carved kingdoms out of
he vast domain during more than fif-
cen hundred years; and to-day there
re fair-haired, blue-eyed Norsemen
md Danes; there are fierce, yellow
Tartars and Mongols; there are ad-
enturous Turcomans; the Germanlc
Hood is there-and who shall say
where or what is the true Russ?
The power of these great ruling
Ears itself springs from Ruric, a
Dane; and, most bizarre of historical
okes, the greatest power of the Rus
ian Cars was attained by them
through their connection with one of
he most powerful of free Republics
he famous Republic of Novgorod that
emained free long after the rest of
he Russias lay prone under the rule
# the Tartars of the Golden Horde.
It was many centuries before there
was even such name as Russ.
Until the ninth century the Byzan-
inc historians refer to all that great
and from the Black Sea to the White
sea and the Vistula to the Volga
ivers as the land of the Sarmatianss
he green-eyed people, and the land
If the Slavs, the glorious people.
The Roman Empire ceased at Sar-
malta. Its most northern colonies in
hat end of Europe were in Cher
,onesus Taurica, now the Crimea,
where there lay two great Roman
-Chersonesus, now Sebastopol,
nd Theodosia, now Kaffa.
Slavic Races That Were in Constant
Unrest.
: North of these lay Slavic races,
moving east and west, now fleeing,
low pursuing. The Goths, who had
zone north long ago, had drifted
iouthward again to the Black Sea
resh from the taste of the wild, free
ife. In the Cossack country of to-
lay lay the Alani, partly .Germanic,
partly Turco, famous even then for
heir cavalry. Around the Sea OF
Azov were the Roxolani, destined to
De driven northward and ever north
ward by Slav and Goth and Turco
and Tartar, and finally to found the
Republic of Novgorod at the Gulf OF
Finland just beyond where St. Peters
burg is now.
In that north1and were the Chudes
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Generals Pa and Ma.

Chinese names when spelled in Eng
lish letters sometimes give funny re
suits, as Hung Soon, merchant i'll
San Francisco. But more striking are
two Chinese soldiers, General Ma, a
division commander of the Chinese
Army, and General Paua (Jlonounced
pa), renegade who fought for Aguin-
aldo in the Filipino instruction. Late
ly General Paua visited China and be-
came acquainted with General Ma, and
it is said the two are great friends.
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the Passing Show these modern days.
The principal trait of those who
know their World Frivolous is an in
slant appreciation of the unintentional,
and this, added to a discriminating
sense of huInor, elevates Foolishness
to a Fine Art.
We of the World Frivolous are not
here to be entertained. but to enter
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tain ourselves. For this reason we go
to entertainments, such as comic opera
and grand though these adjec-
tives are often neutrality-suspicious.
the Frivolist has true sense of the
relative value of amusements, and to
him grandeur is often comic and the
comics are often grand.
Likewise, he reads books with an
unerring discernment of their real
makings for merriment, and in the
World Frivolous Henry lanes is often
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discovered to be more humorous than
George AIDE.
Other traits of true Frivolist are
tolerance and carelessriess.
One Mr. Bfander Matthews has said
these traits are signs of large mind,
which rather corroborates than inn
pairs the truth of my statement Those
for whom the World Frivolous was
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founded with mere humorists, funny
men or buffoons.
However, every forty-seventh stran-
ger you meet is Frivo1ist, and, this
rule remembered, you are enabled to
approach him in the right spirit, and
thus expedite your acquaintance.
To discover if your new-found
friend is, indeed, the real thing, a
walk or ride through city street is
of inestimable value, for nowhere is
the World Frivolous so apparent as in
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made are, indeed, large minded, and
their tolerance is so wide that it is
practically all-embracing. Not from
them are heard narrow, petty criticisms
or provincially dogmatic opinions.
If their neighbors of the World Sc
rious or the World Strenuous choose
to do absurd and incomprehensible
things, it is all right, and quite what
is to be expected Of such people. And
with the complete and consummate
eare1essness that real frivo1itv ALWAYS
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Now, the world being made for each
of us, we naturally see what we look
for, and he who looks for frivolity will
find it in all his surroundings, just as
surely as the searcher after such lit
erature finds sermons in stories and
books in the running brooks.
But real Frivolists are not humorous,
and they are by no means to be con-
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work too seriously. Most things can be
seen in truer perspective through the
medium of frivolity, and irremediable
mistakes are far less likely to occur.
To be fool is easy; to be foolish
satisfactorily to ones self and to ones
companion is not so simple, and is
only accomplished in its perfection by
those who live in the World Frivolous.
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Although, eve II
in individual cases,
t h e S e adjectives
may vary from
day to day, there is
usually a domi-
nant one, which
holds all the others
as the thread hold
the beads, and to
me the chief attrib-
ute of my world is
frivolousness.
This is from a
purely objective
viewpoint, for I
am by no means
frivolous myself,
and am inclined to
take very serious
ly. my Frivolous
World.
And this is a
most satisfactory
arrangement, for it
is far easier and
more pleasurable
!. to observe and ap-
preciate frivolity
than to originate il.
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THE WORLD FRIVOLOUS.

r BELIEVE Mr.. Browning, or some
/ other humorous poet, remarked
A that "the world is made for each
of u.s. and so, logically, we have
each right to accept the world as
our own, and to dub it with any ad-
jective that seems to us, at the time
of such clubbing, appropriate.
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engenders, the in
explicable d e e d S
are Immediately
forgotten, save as
they are used to
point a facetious
moral or adorn an
amusing tale.
The World Friv-
olous is a happy
world. One can
not be truly friv-
olous without be-
ing happy; for
frivolity presup-
poses a light heart,
a merry mood and
a clear conscience.
1t implies also a
power for good,
for who can go
a b ut radiating
spontaneous hap
piness without az
fecting his fellow
men?
Many of the
great evils of life
come from taking
ones self or ones
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Autocra Moscow Kev
Asrakhan, Chersone
of Podola
andF of Esthland, and
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az VTOMEN'S business says
NAE Confucius, ''is simply the
Wv preparation and the sup
n1,rir,n az ,,rir,n and food
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Greetings Of tie nlorl1inQ
A Thrilling Tale Of ShlpWreck and Adventure.
BY LOUIS TRACY.
opyright 1908 by Edward J. Globe,

My worst enemy made the phrase
directive at any rate, Miss Deane.''
You mean that he ruined your
career?"
"Well-er-yes. suppose that
describes the position with fair ac-
curacy."
Was he a very great scoundrel?"
He was, and isl
jerks spoke with quiet bitterness.
The girls words had evoked a sudden
flood Of recollection. For the moment
he did not notice how he had been
trapped into speaking Of himself, nor
did he see the quiet content on Iris
face when she ELECTED the information
that his chief foe was a man. A GER
tain tremulous hesitancy in her man
ner when she next spoke might have
warned him, but his hungry soul
caught only the warm sympathy of
her words, which fell like rain on
parched soil.
You are tired" she said. won't
you smoke for a little while and talk
to me %
He produced his pipe and tobacco,
but he used his right hand awkwardly.
It was evident to her alert eyes that
the torn quick on his injured finger
was hurting him a great deal. The
caused him temporarily to forget his
wound, and the rapid coursing of the
blood thru the veins was now causing
him agonized throbs.
With a cry Of distress she sprang to
her feet and insisted upon washing
the wound. Then she tenderly
dressed 1t with strip Of linen well
soaked in brandy, thinking the while,
with sudden rush Of color to her
face, that altho he could suggest this
remedy for her slight hurt, he gave no
thought to his own serious injury.
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too show your age markedly
She smiled nerNously. What lot
of trouble yoL must have had toto
to- give you those. little wrinkles in the
corners of&your mouth and: eyes," she
said. q sri -
wrinkles! Il How terrible!"
II don't know. think they rather
suit YOU; besides, It was stupid Of me
to imagine You were so old. I sup-
pose exposure to 5the. sun creates
much in the open air. :
Early risingaand late going to bed
are bad for the complexion he de-
clared, solem11ly. = q
7 often wonder how army officers
manage to exist she said. "They
never seem to get enough sleep, in the
east, at any rate. I have seen them
heard of them phi -sticking or school
ing hunters at 5 O'Clock. next morn
ing" ss.5sss b
so you assume I: have been in the
army 2" !. il. s.3Ss 8
! IT am quite sure Of it, il
May I ask ,wfly:22'''' S,
Your manner your voice. your
quiet air of authority, the very way
! you walk, all betray YOU
Then he said sadly. ct will not
/ attempt to deny the fact. I held a
commission in the Indian Staff
1 corps Tor nine years. IL was q
hobby of mine, Miss Deane, to
make myself acquainted with the best
means of victuahng my men and keep
ing them in good health under all
sorts Of fanciful conditions and in
every kind Of climate, especially under
circumstances when ordinary stores
4 were not available. With that object
/ in view, read UP every possible coun-
try in which my regiment might be
engaged, learned the local names OF
common articles of food, and ascer-
4 tained particularly what provision ma
ture made to sustain life. The study
interested me. Once, during the Sou
dan campaign, it was really useful
4 and procured me promotion"
Tell me about it,
During some operations in the des-
4 sert twas necessary for my troop to
follow up a small party of rebels
mounted on carnels, which, as you
tprobablY know, can go without water
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CHAPTER VI.-Continued.
Some Explanations.


BY the time the sailor had safely
landed his cargo Iris had cooked their
midday meal. She achieved fresh
culinary triumph. The eggs were
fried!
Il am seriously thinking of trying
to boil a ham," she stated, gravely
Have you any idea how long it takes
to cook one properly"
"A quarter of an hour for each
pound
.'Admirable But we can measure
neither hours nor pounds.
Il think we can do both. I will
construct a balance Of some kind.
Then, with a ham slung to one end,
other, I will tell you the weight Of
the ham to an ounce. To ascertain
the time, I have already determined
to fashion sun-dial. remember
the requisite divisions with reasonable
accuracy, and a little observation will
enable US to correct any Mistakes
You are really very clever, Mr..
jerks said Iris, with childlike can
dor. 'Have you spent several years
of your life in preparing for residence
on a desert island ?''
Something of the sort. I have led
queer kind of existence, full Of use
into a corner where my odds and ends
of knowledge are actually valuable.
Such accidents make men million
aires.''
Useless purposes!' she repeated.
IT can hardly credit that. One uses
such phase to describe fussy people,
alive with foolish activity. Your
worst enemy would not place you in
anch a category"
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Finally she bounced upon his pipe

Finally she bounced upon: his pipe
Don't be alarmed" she laughed. IT
have often filled my fathers pipe for
him. First you put the
tobacco in loosely, taking care not to
use any that is too finely powdered.
Then you pack the remainder quite
tightly. But I was nearly forgetting
haven't blown thru the pipe to see
if it is clean.''
She suited the action to the word,
using much needless breath in the OPP
Grafton.
THAT is frst-rate pipe" she de-
clared. "My father always said that
a straight stem, with the bowl at-a
right angle, was the correct shape.
You evidently agree with. him.
absolutely"
"You will like my father when you
meet him. He is the very best man
alive, I am sure.
you two are great friends, then?''
"Great friends! He is the only
friend possess in the world
! What! Is that quite accurate %
"Oh, quite. Of course, Mr.. jerks,
can never forget how much I owe to
you are 500 gruff to me at times.
But-but-you see, my father and. I
have always been together. have
neither brother nor sister, not even a
cousin. MY dear mother died from
some horrid fever when I was quite a
| little girl. My father is everything to
me-"
Dear child" he murmured, appar-
entity uttering his thoughts aloud
rather than addressing her directly.
$50 you find me gruff, eh?'
"A regular bear, when you lecture
me. But that is only occasionally
You can be very nice when you like
| when you forget YOUR mast troubles
And pray, why do you call me a
child ?"
.Have I done so?'
/ Not a moment ago. How old are
you, Mr: jerks ! am twenty TWEEN
| ty. last Decem ber.' =
"And l." he said. will be twenty
eight in August
"Good gracious!" she gasped. 81
am very sorry, but I really thought
you were forty at least .
IT look it, no doubt. Let me be
lequally candid and admit that you,