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Traits of the Chinese Won7en

with vegetable oils. Although the pig
is ubiquitous and pork popular, lard
has but little place. The Chinese
chicken-the son of an egg, as it is
called-is very small, and the egg only.
plaything.
The cooking implements are very
simple. 1t was conlcal to see in
North China, a broth of a chicken
frying in the pyramidal depth of an
iron pot two feet high over a fire of
slender twigs. Pancakes were impos-
slble for want of a scrap of tin we
hoped to get from Standard Oil can.
But that had gone to assist in the
roofing. Everything in China is util-
lied But with the simplest materials
the Chinese women are resourceful,
and produce to the foreign taste better
dishes than the japanese
They are beautiful seamstresses. AS
the cut of the garments never change,
they can lavish on them exquisite en-
broidery, and keep them as heirlooms.
The upper classes are tickle in the way
of designs, and that is how we for
eigners are able to buy their beauti-
full clothes cheaply at secondhand
The women make the Chinese shoes
for family use. Except the Greek san
dial, it is the most sensible shoe
ever worn. 1t was instructive,
while we were wading in the mud, to
see the Chinese, gay and delicately
shod, safe above the mire In North
China in every village we found
groups of women seated on the grassy
banks under a tree, their hair smooth
ly dressed, in their clean shirts and
trousers, all shoe making while they
chartered like women all the world
over. We stopped to examine the
shoes. All were gaily wrought with
appliques of silk and cloth. The soles
were built up of layers of felt 1t
as a New England quilting bee
Character will tell, and doubtless in
many Oriental families the woman be-
comes the master mind. All the same,
the Oriental woman is either play
thing or a servant In China the
woman in despair takes her fate in her
own hands She commits suicide This
is her revenge. 1t is now literally 'up
to him." her husband, in the ethics of
the Chinese
One of the most valuable corollaries
of the missionary is the position of the
missionary's wife, who accompanies
her husband abroad, who meets his
guests at home, receiving both affec-
ton and respect. To the women Of
the Orient come the best results of the
missionary's enthusiasm.
MARY GAY HUMPHREYS.
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plying of wine and food

plylllS VI Wl1lG dllQ IOOQ
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 doll-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 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 a 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 child ON her back
while she is at the oar. When the
child is older, he is. tethered to a 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 a 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. 1t was pleas
ure to see the little girls washing and
preparing the vegetables for the cook
ing. The dishes are elaborate. Such
a peeping in the pot, now adding this,
now putting in that, and wearing an
air of experience very comical in such
little maids.
In a land where food is conveyed
to the mouth with a 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 Aslatic
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 gigantically 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 81
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 thai
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 bacl
only before the gates of Constant
nople itself.
| And then, suddenly from the Cas-
plan shores rode more tens of thou
sands. Where the Huns and the Bull
CARS had been fearful to see, the nev
invaders, the Avars, were beautiful
They were tall and handsome. The,
wore chain armor and even thei
horses were clad in mail They fel
upon the Huns and Bulgars and eithe
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conquered or assimi1ated them, so
that after 573 Il. 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, irreconcilable 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
a 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 Vo1ga 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
delib1y 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 o.
to-day was beginning.
The Beginning of the Russia of To
/ Day.
i The Firms were driven north to thu
i White Sea-. Southwark the Russian.
advanced to the foot of the Caucasus
They attacked Constantinople ant
failed; but they brought back will
them Greek civilization and tn,
Greek Church, and from o4I the Rus
sian clergy obeyed the Patriarch a
Constantinople.
| Again the gateway of the IRA
opened and fantastic horde came il
the vanguard of the dirty, ragged
miserable Mongo1s of Central Asia.
Fleeing before the pursuing Cuman
or Polovtzi, who were, as miserable a
themselves, the Petchineges fell upol
the Chazar domain, and for more thai
two centuries thereafter occupied tn
: territory from the Don along tn
!, Black Sea, to what is now the western
boundary of Russia. They ate tn
raw flesh of cats and wolves. The.
wore long, flowing Tartar garment
: and spoke Tartar.
Toward the middle of the e1eventi
/, century their foes, the Cumani, ap
peared and subdued the Petchineges
: and during the eleventh and twelft
r centuries the whole of Southern Rus
| STA is called Cumani.
RI The Cumani tongue was used les
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~ HESE titles that the rulers of
Russia give themselves when
they solen1nly 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 assinilated by the
onquerors; or they have assi1nilated
ne conquerors.
Russia's river-sp1it plains, long after
he 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, b1ue-eyed Norsemen
nd Danes; there are fierce, yellow
-'artars and Mongols; there are adj
enturous Turcomans; the Germanic
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
,f the Tartars of the Golden Horde.
It was many centuries before there
vas 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 Sarmatlans.
he green-eyed people, and the land
If the Slavs, the glorious people.
The Roman Empire ceased at Sar-
malta. It's most northern colonies III
hat end of Europe were in Cher
,onesus Taurica, now the Crimea
where there lay two great Roman
;ities-Chersonesus, now Sebastopol
nd Theodosia, now Kaffa.
Slavic Races That Were in Constan
Unrest.
North of these lay Slavic races
moving east and west, now fleeing
low pursuing. The Goths, who hac
rome north long, ago, had driftec
iouthward again to the Black Sc;
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 TO
heir cavalry Around the Sea Q
-Azov were the Roxolani, destined t.
De driven northward and ever north
ward by Slav and Goth and Turct
and Tartar, and finally to found tn
Republic of Novgorod at the Gulf Q
Finland just beyond where St. Peters
burg is now.
In that northland 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 in
San Francisco. But more striking are
two Chinese soldiers, General Ma,
division commander of the Chinese
Army, and General Paua pronounced
pa), renegade who fought for Aguin-
aldo in the Filipino instruction Late
1y General Paua visited China and be-
came acquainted with General Ma, and
it is said the two are great friends.
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tain ourselves. For this reason we go
to entertainments, such as comic opera
and grand opera-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 James is often
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founded with mere hunorists, funny
men or buffoons.
However, every forty-seventh stran-
ger you meet is a Frivolist, 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 incomprehensib1e
things, it is all right, and quite what
is to be expected of such people. And
with the complete and consummate
care1essness that real frivo1ity ALWAYS
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discovered to be more humorous than
George AIDE.
Other traits of true Frivolist are
tolerance and carelessness.
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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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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work too seriously Most things can be
seen in truer perspective through the
medium of ffivolity, and irremediable
mistakes are far fat 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 IFS perfection by
those who live in the World Frivolous.
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THE WORLD FRIVOLOUS.

r BELIEVE Mr.. Browning, or some
/ other humorous poet, remarked
i that fthe 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 adj
jective that seems to us, at the time
of such clubbing, appropriate.
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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 if 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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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 0 ut radiating
spontaneous hap
piness without af-
fecting his fellow
men?
Many of the
great evils of life
come from taking
ones self or ones
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although, E v e 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 it.
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business" says
AE Confucius, SIS simply the
Wv preparation and the sup
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-09
Ecrete bu1Khead van along thisI porti

crete bu1khead wall along this portion
/ 81 the SDe1awareSriyer front.
*..N early the whole water front OF
san Francisco, Cal, has enSacquir-
ed by the State Board Of f5arboiS Com
mi sioners, and bulllheadsS built, large
piers erected, wide avenue opened
along the water front, and this port to-
day has the most profitable, the best
arranged and best managed dock and
pier system in this country. New Or
leans has also recently expended 2
large sum of money in the purchase
of private wharf property in order 70
reduce charges for wharfage, ana
finds the investment profitable with
q reduction Of charges, in many cases
amounting to 80 per cent At none
of these ports are the conditions to
be met exactly similar, each adopting
the system best adapted to its local
requirements. in accordance with
such view the plans of the Burnt Dis
trict Commission have been arranged.
interest And Sinking Fund.
This improvement for Baltimore,
outside of the widespread benefits to
the trade OF the city, viii undoubted-
ly.earn in rentals sufficient sum TO
nay the interest on bonds issued for
this purpose (probably not exceeding
$500, OOO) and also provide sink
ing fund for the redemption OF the
bonds at maturity.
intellectually it may be mentioned
as an important fact that large part
OF the money expended viii be for
labor. work and material, which Will
be distributed among our citizens
The completed project will result
in increasing the water area of the
harbor above Jones' fails by 100000
square feet and, in connection with
the enlarged water area of the docks,
will add nearly 1o,O00,C0D gallons
daily to the amount Of tidal water now
entering the harbor- which viii mate
rally assist in the dilution Of sewer
age emptying therein
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MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
The Famous Case of LesCTques OF
the Lyons Mail

The Famous Case of LesCTquea OF
! the Lyons fafl-
The most famous of all cases Of mis-.
taken identity is that of Lesurques,
charged with the robbery and murder
Iof tlcfcouricr of the Lyons mail. which
has been so vividly brought home to US
through the dramatic play based upon
lit, LesurQues was positively identlhed
as Il man who had ira veied by the mail
coach and he was in due course con-
!victed. Yet at the eleventh hour a
woman came into court and declared
his innocence swearing that the wit
incsses had mistaken him for another,
IDuboscq, whom he greatly resembled.
She was the confidant Of one OF the
gang who had planned and carried out
the robbery. But her testimony, al
Though corroborated by other confed-
era ties, was rejected, and LesurqueS re-
tceived sentence of DEATH Lesurques
died protesting his innocence to the
last. Four years elapsed before Du-
Iboscu was captured In the interval
others Of the gang had passed through
the hands Of the police but the prime
mover was only now taken. Even
then he twice escaped from prison.
When finally he was put on his trial
and the Judge ordered fair wig. such
as Lesurques had worn, to be placed
ION his head, the strange likeness was
Immediately apparent. He denied his
guilt, but was convicted and guillo-
tined Thus two men suffered for one
iOffenSe.
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HI law N KOREA
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QuecrS Ways OF Punfsh1nE the Rean-
tfxe. Of Grim Is.

Angus Hamilton in his book on 10
&rea% says: ..The Inhabitants are pecul-
iarly5 proficient in the art OF doing
nothing gracefully. There are. there
fore, infinite charm and variety in the
daily life of Korea. The natives take
their pleasures passiveIy. and their
Unconstitutional incapacity makes it ap-
Ipear as If there were little to do but
TO indulge in j gentle stroll in the bril-
liant sunshine or to sit cross legged
within the shades Of their houses. In
action becomes them. Nothing copld
be more unsuited to the character OF
their peculiar costume than vigorous
movement. The stolid dignity of their
appearance and their stately deneanor
add vastly to the picturesgueness OF
the street scenes The white coated,
white trousered. white sockcd. slowly
striding population is lrres'stloly 1as'
'cinating to the eye
Here are some of the pun1Shments
prescribed by Korean law: Treason.
man-Decapitated. together with male
relatives to the fifth degree Mother,
wife and daughter poisoned OF reduced
ito slavery Treason, woman
Murder. man-Decapitated. Wife poi
lsoned, Murder, wonan-Strangled or
ipoisoned. Arson, man-StranSleu or
lpoisoned. Wife poisoned Arson. wo-
imun-Poisoned Theft, nan-Stran-
Igled. dccapitated or Danlshed. WIFE
reduced to slavery; contiscation OF all
property. Dissertation Of graves-De'
lcapitnted together with male relatives
ito the fifth degree. Mother. wife and
daughter poisoned Counterfe!tlng-
IStra nsulation or decapita alton. Wife
lpoiSoned.