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personal property Of British subjects fn
Burma. The policy of his government was
to give the King of Burma as much rope
as possible on the theory that he would
hang himself. which turned out to be ac-
curate.
The council of state were advisers to the
king, and were a sort of check upon the
ministers. They prepared laws and edicts
for him to sign and proclaim. They kept
the records and acted the part of a judi
ciary, but justice was unknown. Personal
influence and brides decided everything.
They also selected the local officials and
MAGISTRATES the country. for administrative
purposes being divided into provinces
called mayos; the mayos into talks or dis
tricts. and the talks into towns and viii
lagos. In each OF the towns were officials
called Thandau-zfns, who served as per-
sonai representatives of the sovereign and
received from him all orders. edicts. laws
and prOclamations which 1t was their duty
to convey to the persons interested or pro-
claim to the public. The name means
"transmitters OF the royal voice"
Each OF the eight thrones are placed In
a large audience chamber or pavilion.
where different functions took place. Like
all semi-ctvilised courta. there was a great
deal Of formality and ceremony. The king
aid nothing without having q tremendous
ado made over II by his ministers, guards.
priests and other aatterers by whom he
was surrounded.
The Hon throne. the most important OF
al. stands immediately under the spire
that marks the center OF the universe. Il
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years. King Mindon refused to receive
him with his shoes on and insisted upon
the conventional kotow, but the old gen.
eral refused to take them off and de-
clared that his backbone and his knees
were too stiff to bend before Burman.
Finally the king was compelled to yield,
and during the reign of Thebaw the Brit
ish resident was in the habit of entering
the palace with his shoes on and his hat
in his hand, and conversed with the king
on an equality without making the ko-
tow or even sitting on the floor in his
presence. He always insisted that the
servants should bring him a chair
Seated on the Ipeer Throne the king re-
cefyed petitions from the public and from
the MOBILES Of the kingdom. and there the
people were allowed tn worship him. They
brought offerings Of flowers and gifts of
money and Jewels. and prayed to him just
as they cid to their gods for he claimed to
be divine. The kings Of Burma like the
cmperors OF China, are descended from gods
and become gods themselves when they die
The Water Festival Throne was used for
ceremonies on tho first of April which opens
the season OF planting. Each year the king
aliases himself and. assisted by his minis
ters and council Of state, prays for rain.
sunshine and good crops, while the Bud
dhist priests 60 through their incantations
and burn incense and the s0rcerefs ana
soothsayers attached to the court perform
their peculiar functfons- The snail Throne,
which stands in an open pavilion. was used
only when laws and odicta were prociAimed.
The king sat upon It WHINE the Tnan-oaa-
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BOOM FOR JAPANESE SONGS.
A Man Who Publishes Them Accounts
for japanese Sympathy Here.

From the New York Sum-
THE war in the far east" said the music
publisher, sis making itself felt even in
our business. OF course, we have not
caught the war fever so badly as the
newspapers and magazines, but still the
song writer's are beginning to desert the
old homestead and are concocting lyrics
about Acknowledged Japanese madens.
1.-THE transition is easy as all composers
can palm off rejected Indian love songs,
so popular the last year, and put japanese
titles to them. Still. there are few Jap
songs published, because there are hum
dreds of pretty lyrics from old Japanese
comic operas that can be drawn upon.
Not a single Russian lyric has come
under my observation, and l think that
gauges the popular pulse to be strongly
pro-Japanese. OF course Japan is natu-
rally attractive to the song writer because
1T Is the land of beauty and poetry, in
cense and geishas: but 1 hold the strange
theory that Gilbert and Sullivan are partly
responsible for our Jap sympathies. If it is
granted that even comic opera stagecraft
will create sympathetic atmosphere. why,
many japanese operas that have followed
The Mikado' have had some weight. Ev
cry one of these hodge-podges has had
poetic environment. like cherry blossom
festival, and the public has remembered
that atmosphere when the caperings of
the comedians have been forgotten.
on the contrary. every play of Russian
NE reVolves around the clanking chains
of frfgid Siberia, the cruelty of the knout,
intrigue and nihilism Every one of these
dramas of desolation has been an anti
Russian document to the people of emo
tional tendencies. Opposed to these the
serious Jap dramas, "A Japanese Night
ingale' and the melodramatic Darling Of
the Gods. have been girded with sympa-
thetic stagecraft.
Now, have seen that the inspired Rus
sian press is inveighing against the Ameri-
can newspapers for misrepresenting them
and fostering prO-Japanese sympathy
hardly think the newspapers will
plead guilty to that charge, for they have
The Japanese nation has been blessed
with theatrical press agents. and IL the
Russians wish to stem the tide they had
better subsidize some of the playwrights
who are now foraging on the free lunch Of
Broadway. I'll cheerfully furnish them
with list of song writer's who will go to
work now for a small consideration"
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DAUGHTERS OF MILO; Romance OF Japan
by Oaoto watannn.- author of "A Japanese
Nightingale" Sc. Illustrations and decorations
by kiyokchi Sano. New York: The MACMILLAN
Company. Washington: Brentano's.
The real essence of the japanese love
life is In this story. and the author. out
of her intimate sympathy for Japan
and it's people, has yielded a product which.
apart from It's narrative interest, must
make for a qulckened understanding of the
little giant OF the far east. 1t Is not, how
ever int nded as document. 1t is mere
~ Offered as a romance. but in the telling
IL becomes vivid with the life and manners
of the subjects of the mikado. The Prince
of Mic has two daughters, one Of whom
is lot recognized by the high world of his
station, but remains with her mother and
putative father. The other. princess OF
the realm, Is reared by her grandmother In
the very closest touch with the traditions
and customs of old Japan. By devices
which are wholly conceivable the author
brings these two socially separated half
sisters into relationship y complex situa-
ton Is evolved. Princess Sado-ko, 1t is
believed by court gGssips, Is about to be
formally betrothed TO Prince Komatsu. who
has achieved national fame a soldier,
but she loves an humble sculptor who has
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is a large chair Of carved teak, covered
with gold leaf and little bits of LOOKING
glass imbedded in the surface. Ihere Is a
large gflded wooden lion on each sloe, anu any,
a canopy also of teak; bewildering mass
of gflded carving supported by four TWIST
ed pillars lacquered with the peculiar lap
anese scarlet color called cinnioar inns
throne was the scene or the most inlPot
tant ceremonies. Here the king frequent
Iy proclaimed his will, and made his most
important announcements. The council OF
state met in the room where IL STATUS,
Each minister had his particular place
upon the floor where he used to SIT our
ing the consultations, and, as IL Wouiu NC
a breach of etiquette to smoke III tne pres
ence of the king, their pipe bearers .le
pIaced upon platforms underneath tne
floor and would there fill and light the
mines and poke the stems up through holes
in the floor to their masters: You can see
holes that were bored for TINS purpos III
the floors of all the audience chambers
The second is known as the DUCK
Throne, upon which the king sat when
he received ambassadors or foreigners
and 1T was selected for that purpose ~,
order to show his superiority over an
other potentates because, long before the
Crst foreigner ever appeared at the court
of Burma the king sat upon TINS thlone
to receive tribute and homage from HlS
under chiefs and from ambassadors from
countries that he had conquered. Ihls
throne is surrounded by an exquisite
screen of carved teak wood. behino "hlcn
the king was in the haDlt OF disappear iiS
to smoke his pipe during interviews with
foreigners in order to show his contempt
for them He often kept them in waiting
for fifteen or twenty minutes in the midst
of an interview without any excuse, ex-
PLANTATION or apology.
Humility in Approaching the King.
Everybody, even his ministers and the
members of his council of state, were re-
ouired to approach him on their hands
and knees and to touch the floor nine
times with their foreheads when they
reached his presence. The same kotow
was required by the Emperor of China,
but compared with him the King of Bur-
ma was insignificant, having only five or
six million subjects, while the Emperor
of China ruled over four hundred mil
lions Every foreigner as well as native
approached the king in his bare feet also.
These requirements were observed even
by the British resident for many years.
until 1875, when an old soldier who hap
pened to occupy that Office declined to
abase himself, and there was an inter-
ruption of communication for several
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rom Harper's Bazaar

From Harper's Bazaar.
The rules OF good taste never change,
though they sometimes seem, to do SO. The
wall should be treated from the Dashboard
up. If there is a dado. It should represent
darkest of all those employed for
the wall: the division above 1t should be
several shades lighter. the border, II any,
stili lighter. and the ceiling highest OF all.
and for this reason. which. always exists:
The ceiling receives less light than any
ether portion of the rom, and the border
less than the wall below It. The effort,
therefore, must be to counterfeit the dark
ness above by supplying the missing light
A darkly papered ceiling should always be
avoided In any but Turkish or Indian
tans are the best ceiling tones. as a rule,
though there are occasions where soft
blue or rose-ffushed ceiling Is to be adj
vised.
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Notes of Books and Authors.

Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, in her re-
Gently published book, "Womens Ways or
SAYS: woman is furnishing more than half
of our magazine fiction. She is doing more
than half of the retail selling of goods. she
is fast monopolzing teaching. She rivals
the delft Chinaman in laundry work; she
fills I'D the factories; she makes all the
feather work and artificial flower work
turned out in America, and in stenography
she has almost driven the man from the
field" Mrs. Alden Is competent to write
authoritatively on the subject, for she has
been eminently successful in many lines
of wage earning. Her own career. 1t is
understood, would furnish rich material
for an Instructive and helpful book.
Publishers find to their grief that 1t is
generally the case that novel. even one
that may start of with a good deal of
rush. is well nigh dead at the end OF the
first twelve months, and about stone
dead" at the end of Its second year. Henry
Holt & Co. are congratulating themselves
on the long life of Her Ladyship's Ele-
phant," which, though published a half
dozen years ago. Is still vigorous. and has
Just had to be printed for the sixteenth
time. Many believe that elephants some
times live one hundred years.
But this is an exceptional case. as sug-
gested In the May Critic George Seibel
writes interestingly of the fiction once
popular that Is no longer read One In
stance he cites is that OF "Triiby" liter
ally a sensation a very few years ago. He
says:
There was poor 'Trilby.' II she came
back to earth she couldn't sell enough of
her books to buy herself shoes. 1t Is re-
ported that when Harpers got into difficult
ties they had 1900 copies OF 'Trilby' on
hand. Booksellers everyx here have put
'Trilby' upon the bargain counter. Not
called for once In two years. reports one
bookseller: In library with over 10000
cardholders only eight were reading 'Tril-
by in another, with more than 10000 card
holders, eleven copies. tattered and torn,
are leading lonely lives In dusty exile ON
the topmost shelves. The Book Lovers
Library, which Ii most directly In touch
with popular demand, has not listed this
book ut all. '''Trilby'' Is dead reports one
bookseller. and none 30 poor to do her
reverence Perhaps 'Trilby' died young
because she was so Gallo and bohesnienne.
not altogether proper: not even . successful
dramatic operation could save her: but had
she been prim Puritan maid she might
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No Trouble About That.
From the Chicago Tribune

From the chicago Trloune
High-pitched voice of boy at telephones
Hello! That you. mammal
Response by low, soft voios:
Yes, Tommy. Where are your
I'm over here at Cousin Dicks. Say
mamma, can't stay here all nightF
IT suppose so, II they ask you to stay.
"Dick, she says IL you ask me / can
stay Ask me. - They've asked me.
mamma. Good bye.
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q - al mi <2
.n,,er go tea far,nc "a we'll tn5av es ha.
ssns,, I III n.sSass - A'eA
S''' mol
Mr.. Thomas Nelson Page has returned
with hia family to washington from Calf
fornia.
Brentano's. the American publishers OF
George Bernard Shaw's latest novel, Man
and Superman," believe that he has at
last arrived" after ABOUT thirteen years
OF only moderate success That book Is
very soon to appear, anu lls course VIII %
watched with keen mtersst Dy those VINO
have regarded ShaM as one OK the most
~ 80 i.a5.
: Joseph ConFads new pook,@ Romance.
was written IN coftaborsfaofss Wffffs Ford
Maddox Huener. M conrad ana ME-
EtneAera have houses near eacn. otnerr IN
Kent. England and have been the closest
OF friends for many years AR. Huener
iierary adviser, so to speak: in fact. when
Mr.. Conrad gets into tight place In any
OF his work he goes Immediately to talk II
over with Mr. Hueffer. and always writes
the final chapters of his stories In Mr..
Hueffer's house. for he finds his last chap
tiers most difficult to do. The collaboration
naturally something to be expected
-
Two NOVELTIES about to be issued by
Henry Holt & Co. are WILDLY contrasted.
a
weird tale of American engineers in an
Egyptian desert that most people WIN prob
ably dub ghost story. It varies from
most ghost stories, however, In the fact
that the supernatural element Is so In
as one of the engineers does, at the end Of
ahIa tho. oil tha stronga harnar;nos Gould
10 exniatrad hv oturaI causes Eron, tho
DO rInass of on Egvntian tomb r. tho hri0ht
EnHGhtnQ American StTGamS
rapio cnanee. Inns plisH,sr locaie iuI
n , the Settlng Ior Hen1y Nysham Lam
ier Inc romance ol riScaeor-
recently asked l.4so puyeIs OF popular
mover "nao inuuUeo theni ~ set .ne Doo N
VI THESE Ooo rePieu ina. eiiey nau oeeh vi
friends. These are suggestive statistics.
stewart Edward Whte ana samuel HOP
kins Adams are coiiaporating upon mover
or mystery. 1t Is to be sea tale, and the
found on the high seas With all sails set
and nobody aboard. 1t Is said to be found
ed upon a fact
fishes Jack London's new book of short
stories 1.-THE Faith of Men," Next week 1t
promises Miss Margaret Horton Potter's
new novel, 1.-THE Flame-Gatherers;' the
following week 1t will publish Maurice
and tha oitb "a the date of the Issue ~
Winston Churchilr . new novel ssThe Cross.
inc
rps
uuDaIGO. and Home Life at West Lawn. By
r A NcCracken Chicago: NJ A. Dopobue &
CO.
CHRIST Ry q D. Mcconnell. DID,, LID, rec
The Macmillan Company Washington: Bren-
tauo's
M
TRUSTS VERSUS THE PUBLIC WELL
FARE BY H. c. Richie. New York: r. r.
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The British Policy.

The only man who had the right to ap-
proach the king directly and demand an
audience at any time was the British resi-
dent who, from the time of the first vice.
roy of Great Britain over Burma in 1922
occupied a villa within the wall, and theo-
retically was an adviser of the government
But he was seldom consulted and seldom
interfered in affairs except to protect the
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This week the Macmillan Company pub
fishes Jack London's new book of short
stories, 1.-THE Faith of Men," Next week it
promises Miss Margaret Horton Potter S
new novel, 1.-THE Flame-Gatherers;" the
following week it will publish Maurice
Hewlett's new novel, 'The Queens QUAR-"
and the 18th is the date of the issue OF
ing
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Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hop
kins Adams are collaborating upon novel
of mystery. 1t Is to be a sea tale. and the
plot involves a mysterious ship that Is
found on the high seas with all sails set
and nobody aboard. 1t Is said to be found
ed upon q fact
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