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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

sent off in style to win favor for
the household.
When I say the East has donned
the vestments Of the West I speak
literally as well as figuratively. All
too often the graceful plum-colored
satin or brocade jacket and soft
silken skirt are topped by a monde
script fedora. / have even had a
rikisha coolie who ran between the
shafts one summer nude to the
waist and some foreigners cast~oR
derby on his head.
Correct Waiter Garb
Where the President gave his
semi-annual crush to the foreigners
Of Peking in the halls where en-
perors once meditated and the grot-
toes where they disported them
selves with their concubines and the
foot Of white man never trod, now
masters Of ceremony rush about in
mid-afternoon with the tails Of
evening dress coats tapping far be-
low the knees and white collars visi-
bly, soaring red circles in their necks.
The morning coat and silk hat are
the first proud possession Of the
gentleman from Paotingfu and Foo
chow newly elevated to Peking off,
cialdom.
once knew o vice-minister who
used to come to the new-fashioned
formal dinners in winter with bits
Of fur sticking out Of his white
wa3stcoat, the cuffs Of his trousers
and the sleeves 90 IL he had rolled
in feathers. Hs had lined his even
ing elethss with thick fur, even
sssogga 10 Sssgne& HyeaseA asksgw and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

East nor West" II is an adequate
picture Of modern China. We whites,
we have willfully shattered China's
long secluded sleep, and in its first
stirring cut Of the dreams Of the
centuries, though East yet in soul,
it has donned the homogeneous vest
ments Of the West. And therein Is
much TO mourn, though much also to
fascinate.
Carnels and Airplames
For there is in this no loss Of
high romance. 1t il equally, in the
slang Of travel description, color
full. Beneath che Pink Wall Of the
once Forbidden City In Peking
strings Of eansls Ale through the
dust Of American limousanes. An
aeroplane dips and wheels In the
clouds above the Altar Of Heaven.
Camel caravans ccnne up out Of
tho dseps Of Asia onto the Mongo-
liam desert where Kubisi Khan
"syapt down like q wolf' and by
GhS& side runs the daily autobus
service Of General Hsu. The Shan
tung farmer in his tiny plot Of kao-
lang rests on his implements OF
Biblical times TO watch the Peking-
Shanghai express train pass. The
Lama who leads tourists to the altar
vt Tho gigantic Buddha In the
hasnting Yang Ho Kung puRs
Virginia cigarette.
Issseagsgosss IL iss and also dyse
,aeeae with ehasAxansa- aid &anse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
By Nathaniel PETER
PEKYNG, China.

WV YHEN the Empressof China
wv launch bearing the artist
who embellishes these lines
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

and distinction TO build a foreign
house, always huge and nondescript.
Soon enough the entrance is CIV
en- over to a storeroom and the draw
ing room to servants quarters.
know one descendant Of the great
mandarins of hundred years ago
who has built him such house. The
regal apartments on the ground floor
are laden with garden tools, packing
cases and Louis Quinze furniture
undusted for a decade. Upstairs,
somewhere in the rear, the owner
and his wife have two or three
rooms, where they live amid the sur
roundings Of their forefathers-plus
the face OF the foreign house.
1t is thus also with what was most
distinctively Picking, its atmosphere
Of mystery and intrigue, the elusive
ness that has always given dramatic
interest to Chinese politics.
The Hemlock Cup
Once upon time, you will be told
by those who know the China of q
few decades ago, there was q feast
in one Of Peking's banquet halls. r.
1t were hidden the highest Of the
Manchu offieialdom, the long finger
nailed, girdled mandarins Of volup-
tuous and efete capital. In the seat
Of honor at the hosts left sat vice.
roy, one Of the lesser nobility, one
famed-and in certain court circles
reviled--4or his vigorous policies,
among them a decres depriving q
cabal Of the most powerful eunuchs
Of their illegitizaate "squeeza" on the
tax from his province.
EpicuraaD v1ands gaYneged. &eora
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

n
WN/ launch bearing the artist
w who embellishes these lines
drew down the Whangpoo
into Shanghai I met him at the jetty.
His eyes, as he disembarked, swept a
skyline Of five and six story build
ings. / handed his baggage over to q
porter in uniform not unlike that
Of an American navy officers. I
took him by the arm and guided him
across the Bund through a fast
moving tangle Of motor cars. I
pulled him just clear Of destruction
by a tramcar on the back platform
Of which was wedged mass Of
Chinese in the best Times Square
manner and behind which was
sprinting an elderly, skirted Chinese
holding up his skirts in one hand and
in the other clutching q tiny black
fan.
On the other side Of the street
fiared signboards proclaiming the
virtues of an unjustly celebrated
chewing gum, a soap that does not
sink, typewriter that is the yearn
of all stenographers, moving pic
ture heroine Of harried career pro-
tracted through numerous episodes,
and other of civilizations products
far famed in advertising, song and
story. Finally, / brought him to his
hotel and via an elevator up to a
fifth story room furnished in ortho-
dox mission, even unto the colored
lampshade.
Where the Exotic East?
"Where," he demanded, sis China?
Where the dangerous and exotic
East?"
Where, indeed? Where, save,
perhaps, in the East-is- West
is-West. legend which Kipling gave
to generation Of short story
writer's for theme wherein to hang
local color fiction. 1t is that East
no more. 1t has gone in the whirl
of time and the whirr Of machinery.
A cycle Of Cathay has closed. 1t
closed with China's unwilling aban-
donment of it's isolation. Unchang-
ing China, that other fiction of
Western writer's, is changing again.
e What was East is now, not West,
butt quote the saddened common
tary of Shem Hsien Sheng, my
teache-"Chung pu chung, wal pu
wai''-a bit of mother wit Of un-
transferable connotation and over
tones, to be rendered badly: "Nei-
ther foreign nor Chinese, neither
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
lust at Present the PICTURESQUE s,
tings Of the Old Order Rub
Elbows With the New

that of how deep these changes will
eventually strike in the Chinese soul
as well. Thus far, it should be un-
derssood, the changes have been
only on the outer eSge OF the huge
Chinese mass. Numberless millions
remote from the centers Of conn
munication still live In the main as
did their 9orefathers when the civ
ilization others are now adopting
was yet at it's dawn. But shey win
not always be immune. Men can-
not live by the side Of railways and
beneath telegraph poles and under
electric lights and remain uninflu-
enced. The face Of life cannot be
changed without affecting the spirit.
In those in whom the heaven has
begun to work it has already struck
below the surface. It has more
than its homogeneous or ludicrous
side. The elementals Of human re-
lationships and social foundations
must necessarily be touched. Men
must become alienated from their
environment, with all the tragic inn
plications that involves.
The Chinese Marriage
A concrete instance is the insti-
tuition Of marriage. In China
marrying and giving in marriage is
an affair Of the family, not Of the
individual. It is arranged by the
family, and its course through life
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
The Old China of Romance Is Dying
and Only the Westemer
Regrets Its Passing

this co-dwelling of the ages, this
tying Of the strands Of all the civ
citations to be seen in the streets
Of any Chinese city.
In all the structure Of Chinese
life there runs this contrast. AL
most my first memory Of China is
that Of q funeral. A long panoply
Of red and gold and green, a coffin
Of split curved logs suspended from
bamboo poles on the shoulders Of
sixteen bearers gorgeously arrayed;
mourners in white and sackcloth o.
tentatiously supported as they tot
tered in overacted grief; clouds Of
paper money cast to the winds to
buy off evil spirits along the route;
Buddhist and Taoist priests and Law
ish sacrifcial offerings; songs and
drums and cymbals and the long
drawn and conventionalized funeral
wall Of the women; and somewhere
toward the end a brass band in the
uniform. Of field marshals playing
a lively and joyous march-the only
Occidental one they had mastered
-"Over Thereof
Comforts for the Dead
The sacrificial offerings were re-
vealing. When a Chinese dies his
survivors send to the neither regions
where his spirit will wander all the
comforts of home: food and clothes
and furniture and servants and
money and maybe a few luxuries.
These are burned and thus trans
mitted below. BY the tacit COM
mon sense understanding whereby
Chinese always reconcile their cere-
monials with economic necessity,
they are always of paper. Hitherto
it has been the custom, for instance,
to give the departed for his journey
ings paper sedan chair. But times
have changed even below. Now,
with the paper money and the pa
per servants and paper porcelains,
there is burned a big paper automo-
bile.
So, too, with the dispatch Of the
kitchen goddess before the New Year
to render report on the transactions
of the household for the year. By
tradition her lips are smeared with
brown sugar to make only pleasant
words issue therefrom, she is seat
ed in a red and gold sedan chair
and sent off in flames to make reck-
oning. Such was the tradition. Now
more is due her for placation. She,
600, is placed in a paper motor car,
chauffeur, horn and all, and thus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

all Asia and subtly scented wines
followed each other in the measured
succession Of the Oriental feast.
The squeals of the Peking fiddle, the
strumming of the Canton guitar and
the barbaric falsetto of the Soochow
sing-song girls added touch of wild
ness. Even under the tight self-re-
preston of the East there was a
CULVER Of tension.
The feast was drawing to a close
To the guest Of honor was brought a
tiny silver cup, dragon-chased, from
which breathed the exotic bouquet of
a golden-yellow wine. He was bid
den to drink. He looked at his host,
at his fellow guests, one by one. In
each face, in his, was comprehen-
sion. His eyes narrowed, he bowed,
he drained the cup and fell dead.
The guests rose. In the reception
room outside they drank the jas
mine scented te@ that concludes the
Chinese feast and talked the idle
gossip of the yamens. The squeeze
on the tax was not interfered with
again.
That was once upon time part of
the orthodox technique of Chi
nese politics. Now, over my COM
pound, in the shadow of the East
Wall, comes the bark of automobile
horns outside. In each undoubtedly
is an official parsonage in q military
uniform Of which the jacket bulges
at the chest and the trousers cascade
at the knees. On the running-boards
hang soldier guards, guarding
against l know not what. They are
the modern substitute for the old
outriders clearing the way before
curtained chair OK blue-hooded
donkey cart. The horn blares hair
breadth passage through rikishas,
hobbling women with bound feet,
travelling kitchens slung from bam-
boo pole on a hawker's shoulders,
coolies snatching a street meal of
steamed wheaton mantoe and bowl
Of tea, shoemakers at work in a
doorway, beggars holding out fes-
tering stumps for public commisera-
tion-all the spilling out Of life on
the narrow lanes that makes the
Chinese city.
The Technique Now
The motor car undoubtedly is
bearing its passengers to one Of the
hideous new ministries, where they
will sit on their kitchen chairs be-
side the brass cuspisors, which will
be ignored in the purpose for which
they are intended. There they dis
patch lengthy kilograms or draft
statements for the newspapers they
subsidize. For such Is the technique
Of Chinese politics now.
II not to conference, then prob
ably to some banquet, a banquet Of
tepid and havorless foreign food and
~..-~entitiable wine and myriad
toothpicks. ] know these banouets.
They are known Of experience. /
have myself, being a foreign corre-
spondent. attended such banquets at
the holy Of holies, the Ying Tai pal
ace, that blazing harmony Of color
on the Lotus Lake where history has
been made and intrigue wound for
these many centuries.
There Kwang Hau, tho Son of
Rssvans was imprisoned until his
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pulled him out like a squirrel. And
/ have seen another of the older gen.
Grafton Of officials appear at Cabi-
net reception in correct evening dress
up to the neck. Above the collar
band Of the shirt was nothing, but
conspicuously borne in the left hand
was a high stiff collar and O white
bow tie-thus acquiring merit for
SAVIOR faire without the attendant
discomfort.
The cult of coat and trousers is
not 80 widespread nor has it so many
votaries in China as in Japan, but
its increase is rapid enough to be dis
tressing to wearer no more than to
observer, for there is no aesthetic
distress greater. than to observe year
by year the displacement Of the
flowing, beautifully designed silken
robe for the geometrical horrors
Of Occidental clothes --- Occidental
clothes always too long, always too
wide and always cut on the wrong
lines. But it gives face. It ia sym
bolical of progress. 1t is accounted
unto one for cosmopolitanism in Hu-
chow or Chaochenghsien to burst in
upon the startled gentry and peas
antry in morning coat f1aring away
from fbutton at the chest to wide
wings wrapping the calves.
A Symbol of Progress
This Picking, this magnificent con-
cept of the rnarauding Tartars, most
fascinating Of all earthly cities, how
it is losing SAVIOR! The passion for
the Western costume has it's archi-
tectural counterpart. The curved
roofs and their red and yellow and
purple tiles, the flaming red gates
and the carved spirit walls inside
them, the courtyards in whose
breadth and peace are embodied the
endlessness Of time and the poise Of
the universal-these are giving way,
at least in official housing, to square
and ugly monstrosities Of Eurasian
design and execution
There is the, red brick horror in
side the Forbidden City where the
President gives audiences. There is
the classic Of the boxlike Ministry
of Finance, county jail in exterior
and early Victorian boarding house
in interior. Gimcrackery out Of FIVE
andten-cent stores adorns ugly man
telpieces. Red cloths, with frayed
fringes and grease spots, cover cheap
wood tables dotted with green glass
ash trays. Dirty bath towels serve
as chair covers, and beside each chair
is shining brass cuspidor.
Into Modern Home
Among the new commercial aris-
tocracy, or the flower of officialdom,
which has won the good graces of
the Japanese government concession
hunters and the riches flowing there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

never deviatss outside the family.
The young bride is brought to the
home Of her husbands family,
where she lives with his parents
and grandparents, his brothers and
their wives and perhaps more dis
tant relatives. She lives her life not
in separate companionship with her
husband, but in subsection to his
elder relatives. To o great degree
it is subsection in o literal sense,
as the classic code governing the
relationship Of young wife and
mother-in-law gives evidence, with
the number Of suicides among
young wives for confederation. Per-
sonal identity the wife has none.
She has not even the recourse of
appeal to her husband, who is him
self subject to his elders and mast
antagonize either parent or wife.
The complications that arise in
the case Of young men and women
educated in Europe or America or
in the mission schools in China, or
even brought into contact with for
eign influence are. obvious. Almost
any foreigner with intimate rela-
tions among Chinese can give def
mite instances Of the tragedies that
result. Men and women thus edu-
Gated instinctively rebel as such re-
strictions. But their choice ia be-
tween yielding against their in
stincts and at great SELF -denial and
infaicting intense pain on those who
are dear to them and are precluded
from understanding. 1t is the old
conflict Of change, common to all
times and all races.
Death of the Old
OF far greater significance and
Importance 10 the influence Of the
opening Of China on the two 9oun-
dation stones Of Chinese society, the
family system and the household
organization Of industry. I have
already said that the younger gem
Grafton under Western influence is
rebelling against the Chinese mar
riage form. 1t Is also rebelling
against the rigid code governing
alial piety. It must inevitably, for
Western ideas and that code are
inherently incompatible. The youth
who has tasted individual liberty
and self-reliance and cultivated re-
sourcefulness does not readily step
back into self-efFacement before
group and age. AS q Lesser factor
10 the development Of communica-
tionss Tor the maintenance of the
family system as the unit has been
made possible largely by the roeting
Of all the members Of one family in
one village Of necessity.
The family system, however, IL
the rect OF Chinese seesesy. 40 an
cassor woTship 10 the axss article Of
sts zeligaeua faith. Once that In
terra up thes Gen1uelan code In up-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
Into a Modern Home

Among the new commercial aris-
tocracy, or the flower of officialdom,
which has won the good graces of
the japanese government concession
hunters and the riches flowing there
from, it is sign token of prosperity
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
The Thing Condemned

This is the tendency against
which we inveigh. Not the choos-
ing of that in the West which China
needs and by which it can profit, but
the rejection Of everything Chinese
because it is Chinese and the &C.
ceptance Of everything foreign be.
cause it is foreign, the failure and
refusal to preserve those things in
the old that the long run Of Chins's
history has proved sound, and thus
to preserve China's race personal
ity; the failure even to consider
whether there Is anything in the old
that is sound. We invsigh against
the Understanding snatching at
externals; in other words, against
the wrapping Of the soul Of the
East in the vestments Of the Wess
without considering the fitness Of
either to the other.
There Is no more fascinating sub.
ject OF speculation, hewevags, than
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-16
SPECIAL PREACHING TO
BE HELD AT M < cHURC4

Beslhnfng next Sunday, Nov 2Isf
I. series OF special preaching services
will De held in the Methodist Episeo-
pal church on the corner of Palmetto
avenue and Bay street Services viii
be held every evening at 7ae. and
the general public Is welcome to at
tend any and all OF the meetings The
preacher engaged for the series Is
Rev. Chas. f. Weigle. OF Sebring. Fla
RE IS preacher and evangelist Of
great power. and very pleasing sing
er. He has just recently closed a
great revival campaign III Kentucky.
during which great success attended
his efforts There IS no doubt that
Charlie, as be IS affeetionately called
lV those who know him. will be well
received in Daytona and is likely 10
accomplish great things If given the
chance
H~GiFTs THAT LAST" DO 1T
NOW. ROWE'S
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-16

FNeVasoaoer EatefnFIse A8sa1 'a51o1-7
LONDON. Nov Ii She'll sbaek
eovereth a multitude Of evils here
John Wright discharged soldier. ae
mitted here that Ae pulled his tyear-
old chtiG from It's cot disiocated IT'S
arm. burned 'ts nose viii a tigaget
and biackeHed SIS eyes. Wright sHid
he was a she'll shock victim and dfa
Mt know What bs was doing The
Judge warned him not 10 Ter L hap
pen again and turned him lose ou
probation.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-16

Tine Of the best wrestling fxhahi
fians ever given IN naytoaa Mas -
eyed Monday night at the AfsfIoFy ~
. fair number Of fans, fuuA1urrsu@
tie ineIensenf weatnsr and tbs faet
hat Monsias evening" AFFAIR @a~
TIC opefer of The season.
Iaek Jordan. the fasnrifs beeAaNe
N i former appearance here. defeat
al Alex Thomas IN fyo straight la!ss
IL ais evenly i matched eaHssss -
k<.aI fans havs EYER had the fsssas are
og witnessing.
While both men claimed - weigh
rs pounds. Thomas appeared - 1a*e
zoout ten petnaA weight % Jordan.
whsl.. Iarslan makes up for weight g
aass.s ~rhseh - times il pssennng8ssaS
The Two men struggled through
szsrssx OF every hoIa kmowu - fhe
game. slipping 1t gass speea ff0fa
hammer lngkA IL head holds. gs9fa
scissors 10 tee holds Ia rapid $50
s.e4ssot. Jurdan taking thu extensive
zaosr or the tffaH sGa lauEsIinx Tn0ss
- wffh scissors the rf.zt*F part 81
~. ffuse bun auneares3 IL Iatk fhN
ssrsnxfh IF Ill gassshs ia bold Thsuias
although he Meaksnes1 htus een ssssef
al.av
zstev q minutes 1T hara sfsMe Ene
xsssi tssfie 80 4assutaxe 80 either
aide. Jesstsn psekssa TnafnaN - tsg@
f.ux.r ana uagrge8 htfu ArogiaH ff5N fra
! as.xeu sssaaa assa fhee ~ tgraesea
air. "a tn3 fAssf Yts8aA sae sra
dizxv and tssgEsefslIs Ka nSs aN8na 81
kno~ where Ne was - Jordan So
60 him IL ) second. fsaasng H1m e
the fsu0a an4 gMlalMx 4 RFNst deal 81
rfaI~. Ter his efforts
il vas the same tall <lasea 1ssgfaa
worked GA NEs4ef here last sea aaft.
and II fact the same meelts4 ~ which
Frank Couch warIa heavY A lglat
champion FOR i number IT years. tsss-
feaaed Haekensehlss.sf il Nea york
sIter two hours and axe n9fAHses 81
Wrestling wIfhans f8li
Both mun sera pretty well rkeretl
nni after their effort ug the first aall
Int came hack strDug Tar the see0na
me battle continuing this time isr q
minutes and ~ seconds. when Joraaa
again got Thomas pinned "a the fi0ua
gign j hold hack OF the arms Eosh
men took considerable punishment
rom his onnat1rnt and nFuxe8 Is ~
more evenly matched tAan ans gM4
contestants 81 she ltssat rn.8i
Is.fors. the match ii aas announce
thai wrestling and boxing sNhihI4on.
Womb he hgia II the sgaafv ~ Ii.
National eaara bows exefy seeatss
week until <eu Years falla4 IS.
Which they wunld b. paf on ever
week. gy i vote taken sa the 9laar
was. decided q haia matches aa Mon
aav nights. IRE National Guard al4a
ming ii hr,ne Ia RAVEN, ...,ne X 81.
er.afe4t srastlers aaa Ns,x4ra (,
.Asaersca. il the urotser 4isppogt & sfV
en- the project.
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Use SLOAN'S TO
WARD OFF PAIN
You can just tell by its healthy,
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tonight A sudden attack may CONG
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