The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12

yTung. But Pu Vi is more baby like, and 1t brings us closer to the little one as The is It Is the name he received from his parents. It was his milk name given just month after birth. Before that he .was known as 'the little one" and as i-'baby'' or darling" At the age of month his head was shaved and he was known as Pu Vi The hair has since grown and 1t is now braided in four long plaits which stand out like tails on the different sides of his head.
 The Vi, or the last part of the name, is that which distinguishes him from the other children of the same generation, of the imperial family. According to prece- dent and the unwritten law of the coun- try the emperors should run in one long uninterrupted succession from father to son. If there are no sons, the children of other princes are adopted to take their splaces, and this Is the case with Pu Vi. .Kwang Su had no children, so just before dying the great empress dowager sent out an edict that Pu Vi should be regard ed as the adopted son of Kwang Su and heir to the throne. This was done, not lwithstanding Prince Chun, little Pu Yrs father, who was the brother of the em- peror Kwang Su, was still living, and that in any other country he would have been Kwang Su's successor The baby femperor Is thus really the nephew of the last emporer, but he is his son by adop- tion.
 I Pu Vi is the great-grandson of the Elm peror Tao Kwang, who ruled China from 1921 to 1850. His grandfather by adop- ition was Emperor Hsien Eeng, who mar lried the great Empress Dowager, of whom Pu VI in bis edicts now speaks Of as hls ssholy grandmother"
 ! How Pu VI Was Crowned.
 I was in Pekin when Pu VI was drowned The ceremonies took place in- side the Pink Forbidden City, and only the highest officials of China were pres lent The baby was brought forth and made to go through the rites fixed for the goccasion. Some of the requirements he could only perform by proxy. but word was sent out over the country giving his Imperial actions. and according to the publications he acted as young man rather than baby. He was really car fried into the throne room in the arms of his father, Prince Chun, who had already been made the imperial regent. I am told he cried when he came In, and that his Efather quieted him by promising to buy Ehim a pony.
 7 The officials wore their gorgeous court dresses. The new Empress Dowager was lon the throne. and, according to the Pc. lldn Gazette, the baby Emperor got dowr before her and made three kneelings anc nine prostrations. The officials also ikneeled when they asked his majesty tc accept the throne. and after a lot oi other fubdubbery they placed him on 'th, Ijeweled seat with his face to the south. If the regular ceremonies were carried tout as Is asserted this little 2-year-olt monarch then changed his clothes hal dozen times, and at the end put on som fber garments as a sign of his grief for tn, deaths of Kwang Su and the great dow ager.
 The Golden Phenlx
 All that I saw of the crowning wa from the gate of Chien Men, on the tol of the wall, opposite the tower whicl rises above the gate of the Forbidden City. I was several hundred feet away but I could see the gorgeous officials come out of the palace and stand unde that tower waiting for the proclamation kof the crowning of his majesty as 1 came down from heaven, in the moutl tof the Phoenix. This, according to th iChinese tradition, Is part of ever. femperor's coronation, and the fiction wa Icarried out in reality as far as appear ances went. A golden bird with tn kproclamation in It's mouth was let dow lby a string from the tower, and wa Icaught as it fell by the proper official below. They took out the paper and pu l1t in . sedan chair, which was covered kwith yellow silk, and then started in | Egrand procession to lay it away in tn