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he crosses before an automobile just
| in time to save himself from injury
| the car will run over and kill the
devil which Is lodging his footsteps.
| The people on foot seem to view with
naughty disdain the many vehicles
| In the road and make 1t necessary
for the chauffeurs to sound their
horns every Ave seconds and to turn
this way and that to escape injuring
! a Chinese. Sometimes they even have
| to bring their cars to a dead stop,
so little attention is paid by the
pedestrians to keeping out of harms
way.
X X
A we pass through the principal
L gate to the city over a fine ma
cadamized road 1 recall that in an
earlier visit I rode from the river
to the town on a donkey, which climb
| ed up hill and down, half swimming
| in pools and wading in mud all the
way. Then beggars lined the road
| side near the gate. Today there are
none, and every one seems to be work
| ing. Neatly uniformed policemen are
now stationed at the busiest street
crossings. When I had the car stop
ped to photograph one, he directed
| me to move on, S l was holding up
| the traffic. When 1 explained that I
| only wished to stop moment to take
| his picture, he demonstrated: Il am
| Just a man. There is no difference
between you and me. Why should
| you take my photograph" l found
| this argument unanswerable and 1t
| is characteristic of the new Chinese.
| They are resenting more and more
any implication that they are curioS-
tiles.
The road is lined on either side with
new, modern buildings, but we are
soon in an open space that is thinly
populated. We cross bridges marking
the intersection of former streets
which have now become cultivated
| fields, and in place of rows and rows
of buildings there are patches of
vegetables under cultivation, or
cumps of bamboo. Billboards dis
playing lurid posters have been erect
! ed here and there in the fields. Most
! of them advertise cigarettes, and the
| praises of a popular American brand
| written both in English and Chinese
| characters make an homogeneous pic
| ture.
| Shortly we arrive again at a more
| populated and buster section. Here
trade of all kinds is going on. In the
! open shops are hung up cooked fowls
and various kinds of vegetables are
| for sale.
| We stop for a moment at a school
/ house, a darkened one-room struc-
ture. in which some 80 boys and girls
! of abont 10 years OF age are studying
| the classics of the time OF Confucius.
! There are Is desks, with pupils at
| each one, and their voices rise in n,
sing-song chant as they study aloud.
/ pick up one of the books and notice
! that it is printed in the new language
of One Thousand Characters.
| We soon reach the Drum Tower, a
| large red, two-story building with a
| tower on the top. The first tower,
! located in what is now the center of
the city, was erected in 1892 AID,
less than 80 years after William the
| Conqueror landed in England. The
present massive structure was built
| by Emperor Hungwu of the Ming
| dynasty, in preparation for a battle
| against a force of rebels He placed
in 1t an enormous drum, which could
be heard at a great distance and served
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the trimmings in the general direc-
ton OF the caps hand.
Well, this bird didn't notice he
was given anything, either. but like
the rest of human creatures, he had
instincts of cash preservation. And
the mere act of closing his fist
around that inanimate but never in
active piece of green paper done a
remarkable thing to his brain. He at
once remembered a table over acrost
the room.
Well, I and Geo took the table,
what there was OF It, and IL was all
mussed up. So Geo. made a few
deaf and dumb signs at the buss
boys that went dashing past but ap-
parently, although they acted both
deaf and dumb, they was not to be
tagged by anything but the sight of
a half a henry laying on the dirty
tablecloth.
Hot Bozo! One Of 'em heard that
even with the jazz band going. And
while action was being taken, and
also the half a dollar, In come DIR.
Salary and Miss Demeanor, terrible
sorry they was late. and etc Well,
they set down and we got about six
captains and walters around us and
we give the army orders for little
supper.
why conversation was started by the
doc, and he wanted to know didn't
we think this was a very taking
little place, and we says yes, II GER
taInly is. And he says he thought
the captains was such nice fellers,
especially the one on duty tonight
and didn't we think he was un-
usually attentive, and Geo. says yes,
he thought 1t was quite touching.
X y
A ND then the orchestra commenced
working again. 1t was the kind
of band that has everything in It but
the kitchen stove, and there are min
utes when a person amt so sure but
that maybe they have got that in
as we'll. Talking in the face of IL
would Of been like chatting during
a bombardment on the Marne.
Well, this being the case, we got
up and danced on each others feet.
and some says excuse me, but others
didn't, the same as usual in them
crowded places, and after a while
the colored men who was causing
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throne and restore the Ming dynasty
laid siege to the city for 20 days,
only to have his horde attacked on
the night Of the twentieth and sew
eral thousand Of his pirate follow rs
massacred.
I thought, too, of the Taiptngs who
captured the city and held 1t as their
capital for IL years.
NANKING has been a walled city
since the fifth or sixth century.
the present walls being built about
500 years ago. They are "a miles long,
from 40 to so feet high, and so broad
on top that two automobiles could
pass on them without danger of
touching each other.
1t is stated that there are no less
than 1000 walled towns in this coun-
try, and 1 can readily believe this is
so from what 1 have seen. All are
built in about the same manner. The
materials used are stone and large
burned bricks of a blush gray color
These bricks are each about Is inches
long, 5 inches wide and three inches
thick. They are put together in a
solid masonry in the shape of two
walls running parallel with each
other and the space between them
filled in with earth and stones. This
is stamped down upon its top and a
paved roadway is made, along which
armed guards used to walk and upon
which cannon were mounted Before
the Chinese had guns they used to
keep piles of stones on top of the
walls ready to be thrown down upon
the enemy.
The length of these walls is much
greater than is necessary to inclose
the cities. l have seen none less than
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(F'repch for dressmaking) I have now
became a mannikin."
What are a mannheim I require
with Ed Wynne expression.
"A nannikin are a girlikin dressed
In a French muddle gownd-' she ex-
plan please notice trimming on this
costume de street I are now wearing"
She whirl Zee. police what had
tainted off pick UP their hats and run
away. You Will notice the upper
story or mezZonine waist are trimmed
with Swiss wha1ebone held UP with a
pair OF Louis XIV suspenders. The
skirt (for such 1t is) are made out
of red bendanna hankerchif cut in
Il with 2qrts OF creme de menthe
around the edges"
/ look. l see. / stand up
What bout your hat?" ask to know
"Oh la-la-la-la-& lots morer she say
80 with roller eyes. That are not a hat
1t are a chapeau or lido You see its
remarkabilious expression of color? I
will tell YOU how 1t got that way 1t
are made entirely out of cigar coupons
what have been dipped in blue varnish
and fried slowly over an electric curling
iron. 1t have been fastened carelessly
together with diamond pins. A pair of
rooster feet on each side give it that
chic look"
While speaking commence prom
enade down street with Miss Annie
Anazuma. pretending I merely knew her
slightly. Enlarged mobb of crowd march
beside OF us. singing Banana Songs &
taking off shoes to throw at US, 1t make
me feel quite rude.
Tell me thus, Miss Annie Anazuna, .
dib, who you expect wear such cloth
ing outside Of Insane Hotel?"
"Oh everybody & ALL she dangle
''Nextly you know I,drizzle, ladies
will be wearing boxing gloves on their
feetware."
''Umpossible"' she notate hottily.
''Why impossible? ?" I axclan.
Because Paris dressmakers are saw
ing that style for 1926"
BY this moment we come up to en-
larged store with sign Mile Sardine,
Modes, Styles & AHectations
You wish come in & observe some
more views of 1926 muddles for ladiesr'
require Miss Annie Anazuma with happy
eyesight.
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house aflre, 1T being one OF these
middle-aged buildings which looks a
whole lot better at night in full eve
ming dress than it does in the day
light, we'll anyways, we was cordially
greeted by a Teller at the door that
took our fivver from George. prac-
ttcally by main force and give him
q check.
Well naturally I tried to leave my
being one of them little economics
we generally practice. But nothing
doing this time. and when a woman
swiped my wrap often me, I could
see where four bits was the very
least it was conner cost me 70 get
1t out of hook.
x x
WELL, come out of the beauty
w garage and Joined Geo, but the
Doc and Miss Demeanor wasn't no
where's in sight yet. However, there
was a awful mob in the place. SO Geo.
says well I guess ! better speak for
table SOS to be sure we get one.
So he goes over to a Teller who
looked like he was afraid he might
be mistaken for a guest, and he slip
ped this Teller a piece OF money, and
the Teller pretended not to notice it,
but he RENE bered to keep ahold of
it, and George says how about a table
Cap? And the Teller says why I'm
just going off duty, but I'll get ahold
Of somebody to take care of you.
Well, that certainly was a mouth
full Geo. really did need somebody to
take care Of him, giving away money
in advance like that. But anyways
the Teller took Geo. over to where the
red plush rope was keeping the public
from getting in and says psf, and pref
ty soon another balooney in a open
faced suit come up, and Geo. says to
him how about table.
He says it in purely friendly.
not at all commercial manner this
time And this new dickey bird says
have you q reservation sir? And
George says only in my own mind,
old thing. And SO the cap shook
his head kinda hopeless and he says
very sorry, but I'm afraid I can't do
a thing.
So Geo. Cancelled the reservations in
his mind and got out his bank roll
and pruned it back a little, slipping
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-18
LAST OF NOTABLE SERIES.

This article, written from the
city in which Frank G.. Carpen-
ter died, June Is, 1924, concludes
the lifework of a famous jour.
nalist, Americas foremost travel
writer, and one of the originators
of the newspaper syndicate sys-
tenn. In a career which covered
a period Of IS years, MI. Car
penter had visited practically
every country on the globe, had
made 80 trips across the Allan
tic, and at the time of his death
in China was on his third tour
of the world. The Sunday Star
has had the privilege of publish
ing his weekly articles for many
years, and Dudley Harmon, edi-
torial associate of Mr.. Carpenter,
in sending the concluding article,
states:
Il desire to express my per-
sonal appreciation of the cordial
courtesy and cooperation always
accorded to us by The Star, and
to thank You for the gratifying
manner in which you have, from
week TO week, presented the story
of Mr.. Carpenter travels to his
many devoted followers among
your readers"
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country here at Marking Is shaped
just like a great dragon, and the
Emperor said: IF I can build my
capital on the dragons back 1t will
last forever" The result was that he
moved to Marking and made 1t for a
time the greatest city of China. He
built the present walls and planned
also an outer wall which should be
80 miles long, but he got no farther
than the first pillars of this before he
died.
\ X x
MOT far away lies the south gate,
just inside of which remains all
that is left of the Marking of old. Let
us saunter through this old city. We
shall find that here, as elsewhere in
China, the new is subtly replacing the
old.
Here you will see a dentists shop
fitted up with the newest of western
equipment, while on the sidewalk
across the street an old medicine man
is peddling his wares, consisting of
bits of wild animals. We inspect the
, bears claws and the tigers heads
which he has for sale. How they are
to be used l do not know. Noticing
crowd at a booth next to him, we
edge our way through and find it
centers around a man who is telling
the fortunes OF the passers-by for q
cents a fortune. The crowd pre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-18
ny FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
NankinE, China

y luxurious car of the fast
Shanghai express I have come
to Marking, the biggest walled
city in all the world and one
of the most famous in history.
Here the modern improvements of
the twentieth century are making
their way In a place that was 500
The city is surrounded by walls that
were more than 100 years old when
Columbus while seeking a short
route to trade with the ancestors Of
the present-day Chinese, discovered
America instead.
Marking is the capital of Kiangsu
Province, and is located 1913 miles
north from Shanghai on the south
bank of the Yangtse River. It is one
of the oldest cities in all China and
for 120 years before the reign of
the third Ming emperor, Yung 10,
served as the capital of the empire.
Previously Marking had been seven
times the seat of a kingdom, and for
500 years before the Ming dynasty
was a. city of great political i'm
portance. The name Marking means
Southern capital" just as Picking
means northern capital"
ABOUT Marking is wrapped all the
splendor and grandeur of China of
the past. Here lived and died some of
the famous Ming emperors. Here were
staged some of China's numerous rebel
lions OF the past, and it was here that
DR.. Sun Vat Sen took his oath of office
as the first President of the Republic
Of China But one today sees little
OF the glorious Marking of a thousand
years ago. In its stead is a shrunken
city set in a vast area of land made
up for the most part of farms, and
having d. population of only 100000
that does not anywhere near fill up
aas- the space within its walls.
when l arrived at Marking q
Chinese captain with a squad Of eight
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I didn't hold even them two products
against the place.
The next morning that Mrs Joe
Bush called up as per usual.
Well my dear, she says, it's all
over town about you and George
are going to Palm Beach, she says,
won't that be perfectly lovely, I GER
tainly wisht I could go. don't you
need a maid or something, she says,
she is so original, oh do take me
along, she says, I'd do anything to
get there, with the lovely flowers
and the ocean and the four hundred
and the beautiful spreading palms.
Well, / stopped her right there.
Say listen Mabel, I says, we have
kinda postponed the idea of that trip,
l says, believe you me dear, 1 says,
last night I seen all the spreading
palms want to for quite a while to
comet
(Copyright 1921
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II were going to funeral of my Aunt
Hattie Ekazema,' / report, but could
find few moments to prepare for that
sadness"
Therefore we walk into very swelled
society room filled with ladies' twisting
themselves to see how stylish. Several
sail-wonan was there to say How Sweet
while helping them spend money.
One fatty lady come out with her en-
tire personality containing a ostrich
colored Waiting costume with split pea
embroidery.
"Oh | !" holla saii-wonan with
hands. How Deer you Look J."
Maybe l got it on upside down. sip
pose Hon. Fatty lady with eyes.
You havei Indeedy you have. :" ex-
claim sail-woman. That are the way
they Will be worn this yr. Monsure La
Prune have arranged IL that way
Everything will be worn upside down
this Season. Even your hair. You are
pufffct in that dress, 1t give you thai
insane look which every well dressed
woman must wear by command of Paris
1928. 1t will look too Sweet with a pair
of duck-feather stockings & wooden
shoes made OF mahogany with silver
nails If you wish be right in the latest
RACES of Paris you must wear a sword
& a false musstash Of baby lamb dyed
blue
4 K X X
MIR EDITOR, did you ever have
AVA any fits? I enjoy right there
where 1 was g. were gladdened to be
fetched out into daylight where I could
walk lame.
Pretty soonly comeup to nly Cousin
Nogi who l also could not know hardly
because on himself he were wearing
such suit OF clothes as isn't. His pants
was cut up to his shoulders & around
him was wrapped a vest cut so short
around the stummick it look slightly
like a double-breasted chest-protector
And such a pants They was just like
a pair OF skirts walking.
THE clown you stoled that FROM" ]
dib, will get sad tonight because OF
nothing to wear in circus"
IT did not stoled this from clowns .
snarTel Nogi for prides, 1T were gave
to me by a English actor who say II
are going out of style in London, there
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all this agony weakened again, and
just in time, on account l was doing
the same.
The Doc and Miss Demeanor &C
tually seemed to enjoy ii, but they
are engaged, 1t makes a big differ
ence, Very soon Geo. says some
bright original remark to the effect
well tomorrow is another day I
guess the poor working man had
better go home. And IT was remark
able how easy we got the check.
After waiting X hr. for II we got
up and made out like we was going
to leave. They brought the bad news
fast enough then. In fact, II was
brought by about seven or twelve
walters and captains and generals,
and etc and it seems where they had
all done their little bit towards max
ing things bright and happy for US
and plainly expected us TO do the
same for them.
Well, the boys zone so, and we
redeemed our coat and then there
was only the cars t. get out of stor-
age, the doorman to tip, and we was
through for the night.
II X X x
WELL, 1t was terrible cold driving
w home, and 1 and Geo. didn't talk
much, like any normal married couple
under the same conditions But
what with trying to keep warm
got to thinking of Florida again, and
how grand it would be to go where
one-piece bathing suit was just as
useful in January as in July.
I got to dreaming about the long
moss that grows on the trees, and
how each day you could see the land
swells taking a dip in the ocean ditto.
The thought of walking around Palm
Beach or Miami with Geo. in white
pants and me with a lovely un- wash
able wash dress sitting on the veranda
of the Royal Pounceuponia eating
fresh hibiscus, or watching the nuts
IN the cocoanut grove, made me sick,
l wanted 1t so bad. Unless l could
go there next minute, 1 wished there
wasn't no such place.
I personally myself don't care for
snakes nor alligator bags, but right
that minute with the north wind
blowing all the powder off my nose,
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1925 MUDDLES SHOWN i'm FASHION SHOPS
To Editor The Star:

TO Editor The Star:
~ EAREST SIR: Miss Annie An
azuma, Japanese schoolgirl,
4 have now got marriaged to
~ one OF our best bootlegg
families, SO she spent most
all her time now in Paris where she
help France pay her national debt.
She learn that languidge so fastly
that she can now talk 1t almost as
good as l English.
Yestdy pm. while walking I OBJ
serve something approaching to me.
I think It were female because OF
stockings which I saw too much.
What was left of her skirt she wore
in such way she look like she trying
to set down all time. Also there were
a hat with chicken feet stuck In 1t.
Her eyelids was painted green & she
got monkey-hair pinned to the cor
ners of her overcoat. Otherwisely I
could see that 1T were little Annie
Anazuma what used to be seated on
my knee in years of yore when had
one.
All people, horses & taxihacks stop
up & look while she approach. 19
policemen enrush forwards, expecting
to arrest her. but faint way before
they got there.
"Ah. Togow she holla stylishly
la-la-la-Ia-la etc plus 2 las extra
LAmerique est une tres hick country
nest pass? And how do you like la
costume de walking 1 are wearing
this PM"
II think maybe you put it on back
wards" I snuggest with blushing in
my face.
"Ezackly!" she narrate. This robe
de street are built to look that ways
The befront are behind & the visa
versa befront. This give lady appear
ance of going away from what she
are coming at, thusly adding muchly
TO her cowcattish behavior. This
gownd were designed by the Janus
La Prune OF Paris & made a great
sensation at the Long Chump Race
course of recently. G. Togo, tell you
something, IL you will not whisper IL
to anybody axept the Society Re-
porter of several newspapers"
I stand there promising reveren-
TALLY.
Then I tenr" she influenza This
Monsure la Prune, Janus dressmake
of Paris, have selected me out for my
fashionable figure. But pussibly, be-
cause of yr long American residence,
you do not know what a fashionable
figure are"
'I000O00s are a fashionable figure,
by golly," l administer.
For dressmake purposes" she OIL
licute, "a fashionable figure must look
like 1000o00S without having 1t So
this celebrated artistic, Monsure La
Prune. promus let me wear all the
clothing out Of his shop"
You must wear Zee that much I'M
less catching cold" deliver.
* * \
0EIGS & datesw she snibber. What
Il Won knoW q hn1It such educated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-18

HEIGS & datesw she snibber. What
you know about such educated
things? From a poor seam-sewer in
that Janus La Prune menagerie
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CONTINUED on sixth Page9
The Washington times., 1925-11-17
DEATHS

Martin solern, sixty-fOur years, NO.
1a5a TAYLOR street northwest.
Katherine Murphy. sixty st: ELIZA
Oe M.vt n0spWISa W. preston. sixty-Sour. No.
gaia Tortv- first street northwest:
Oscar Harvey. forty-eight' Garfield
Mary e. Martin, forty-seven, PFovt-
e Joseph +. Stems. fOrty-Sx,. Columbia
George A. Dozen. fifty-nine, No. 1712
KtIbourne place northwest.
solomon Charles McMonigle' fifty.
seven. No. 1902 New Hampshire avenue
Dean Swift. fifty-four, George Wash
Charles T. stake, sixty-geven. No.
1911 Thirty-third street northwest.
John b. Lewis, sixty-five. Providence
Lizzie Cole. fOrty-eisht.> Providence
Robert Proctor, sixty-twO. oallinEsF
Mslinda Powell. sixty-nine. No. II N
Lsvinia Muiiin. fifty. aallinEsr Hos
Annie George. forty-eight. No. 30
Virginia avenue southwest.
Robert Alexander, forty. No. Els
Clark alley southwest
Paul J. Thomas. twenty-eight, No.
sos L street northeast.
Mary Ford. twenty-five Freedmen's
Jerimian Hill. thirty-seven. Freed
wallace r. Martin. five months. No.
2611 O street northwest.
The Washington times., 1925-11-17
MERCHANTS AND SALES
FORCES WILL CONFER

The first Of a series OF monthly
meetings of local merchants and
their sales forces will be held at
z o'clock tomorrow night in the
City Club, when the. Washington
Carpet, Upholstery and furniture
Association win meet for dinner.
3. L. Shinn,. Of New York. head
Of the National Better Business
Bureau. win speak on Honesty in
Advertising and Selling" Herman
NJ. Shapiro, OF >the Peerless Fnrni-
ture Company, will be toastmaster.
Louis Rothschild, director Of the
Washington Better Business Bureau,
will Intry duce the speaker.