The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-07-26
Is COMING TO SPEAK ON CHINA


Assembly Offers Many Strong Fca
tures. Music TO Have lmportan
Place in Program.
The Chautauqua plans are begin
ming to assume form,
Advertising will soon be distributed
throughout the town and country
about, and il is believed this will be a
most delightful and most important
event in the summers activities,
| The music will be big feature Of
the week. A different musical COM
lpany will appear on each Of the five
days. These include besids the Saxo-
phone Singing Band the Hawaiian
Singers and Players, the Schubert
Concert Party, the Roya Marine Band
and Wilfred the Lutte Player.
The music for the day, by the Saxo-
phone Singing Band, will be patriotic
in character, and the principal speak
err, Dr. Lincoln Writ, will talk on "'rhe
Challenge of the World to America"
DR.. Writ has been in the war zone in
Europe and is a world traveller and
student Of international problems be-
sides being a lecturer of wide promi-
nence
A big feature OF the week is DR..
Frederic Poole, authority on things
Chinese.
DR.. Poole is an Englishman, who
has spent nearly quarter of n CEN
tury in China. He went into China in
the old days when the Chinaman was
steeped in antipathy to the foreigner.
1t was in the anti-foreign days. He
acquired knowledge Of the Chinese
language and lived the life of a China
man. He travelled into the far interior
of the empire and visited places that
heretofore had been untouched by the
foreigner. He established hospital
in the heart of China. In the uprisings
that followed the riots in the Yangtse
Valley he lost his wife and child, and,
broken in health, returned to this
country, where for several years he
engaged in educational and sociologi-
cal work among the Chinese.
He is regarded as the greatest iv-
ing authority on China known to the
lecture platform. Not only Is the In
formation he gives absolutely reliable
and authoritative, but the delightful
racy character of his presentation rem
ders 1t extremely fascinating. ~
Appears in Rich Robes
He appears in the richly embroider-
ed robes Of a mandarin. This costume
is work Of art. The designs Of
Dragons are worked out in gold, and it
mas a deep border of silk in all the
,olors of the spectrum. The prevail
ng color is yellow, a color that is worn
,nly by royalty.
He launches straight into his sub
ect by giving verbal illustrations Of
he language and draws Chinese char
lcters on blackboard in full view OF
lis audience. Every Chinese word ex-
,resses picture to a Chinaman. That
5 to say, the characters have grown
rom pictures. For example, man" is
expressed by drawing, originally
omplete sketch Of man, but which
las been abbreviated in the course Of
Sc. The characters representing two
vomen stand for the word "quarrcl;"
f three women, gossip" A deriva-
iontion resembling a roof means
home," and a woman and pig under
he same roof means "marriage"
He tells Of the habits, the dialects,
he modes of living, the curious GUS
oms and the progress and develop
lent within the empire. He describes
he passing of an ancient despotism
nd the BIRTH of new nationalism and
Ills of the introduction Of modern
leas, of the great advance in cduca-
on, in commerce ard the acceptance
nd use of American customs.
He will speak in both the afternoon
nd evening programs, in the after
BON on "An Afternoon in China" in
le evening on "A Glimpse Of the
rient." Oriental music by the Schu-
,rt Concert Party will be feature Of
e evening program.
The season tickets will sell for
so. These will admit TO all ten ses-
ons.
They can be procured through any
pmbers of the Chautauqua Associa-
IN.
The dates--August 9th TO 18th.
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