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Evening star., 1925-01-11

hospitals and welfare work, and that
they are alive to the needs of the New
China,
This city is considered such a
desirable place to live that some rich
Chinese in America have bought
large tract OF land near by. They
plan to establish a model settlement
planned after the towns of the United
States, where they live when they
have made their fortunes and come
back to China to die.
Wusih is situated in the heart of
the silk district Of China. The coun-
try about it is we'll fitted for growing
mulberries, and the whole country is
covered with orchards devoted to the
raising of food for the silkworms
You may ride for miles through
patches of bushes about 10 or IL feet
in height, eSch covered with the green
leaves for this years sprouting. The
trees are cut back every year and the
sprouts which come out furnish the
food which by way Of the worms pro-
duces the silk.
The climate, which is warm and
moist, not unlike that of Louisiana, is
especially suitable for raising the
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Dear Old Dixie Land in order l
should know all about that, either.
No more then the writer's of the songs
had anyways.
Well, this book Geo. had slipped
me told where the boat with excel
lent cuisine, whatever accessory that
might be, was also going to tie up
along side of Ceylon long enough to
have a cup of tea, II nothing else.
And we was also going to the Dutch
East Indies.
Well, naturally, l wasn't going on
trip like this one and then come
back and admit to neighbors, such
as that Joe Bush of the Hawthorne
Club and his wife, that we hadn't
met all the best people. So l got
determined right then where l would
get a Introduction somehow or an
other to Mocha and Java, the big
coffee kings, and Tho Sweh Dagon
Pagoda, in Burma, too. a well known
feller that was by the girl in Kip
lings poem, the Road to Mandy Lay.
Yes Stree, when I got to Burma,
1 wasn't conner bother with no ele-
plants hauling teakwood, on account
ever since / was about six annums
old 1 been seeing elephants, better
dressed elephants, too. hauling
drums, rolling barrels, and etc, each
Spring when the circus come TO town,
and now ! yearly got to do the same
thing by Junior. No, / had enough
of elephants, when in Burma / was go
ing to meet that Sweh Dagon and
with him stand, looking Eastward to
the sea, like in the poem the feller
wrote.
OVER in India there was a. lot of
~ prominent people that 1 figured
on meeting, too, on account in Amer
lea. Americans are merely Americans,
but abroad they are the equal of any
body and just a little bit better. So
1 decided 1 would take IL intro
duction to this guy Tai Mahal you
hear such lot about. and some 9TH
er native put-antakes.
And of course I also intended while
in India to see the burning CHATS.
and it does SEEM mystery how the
fire dept. don't put them out, but
they have been going for yrs. Also
1 wanted to see a few curry trees
and maybe bring back leaf or two
to press in my favorite book-Mrs.
Roarer's Receipts.
Then l thought maybe we could
rescue a few Of them poor beetles
the natives chew up, and send them
home to our missionary society, or
the zoo, or someplace. Well any
ways, that kinda finished up India,
and so I turned over this little book
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you about this American coronation,
then you must listen. If you do not,
then let me talk"
JUMBO could not think too fast
therefore he remained stuck.
This Grand Duchess Cyreen, for
such are her name, arrive of recently
to America, leaving her husband, the
Grand Dutch Cyreen, at hotel in
Paris where royal trunks is kept
until payday. This Grand Dutch
would of come also to be our just g.
merciful Ear but too busy playing
bridge to remember this unknown
country.
Therefore this Grand Cyreen lady
get her on boat & go to hotel. She
scarcely took off her royal overcoat
& put on her royal kimono. when
what she hear? Taptap by door! She
were so excite that she forgot where
she packed her crown.
$50 she rapidly stuck her head out
OF door, working quickly because
some Russian patriot might be there
to toss a bomb at her. But what she
see? There was 500 Americans set
ting on their knees in front of her,
naturally.
What wanted, if anything she
report with Romanoff on her voice.
80 top-high Majestical" they holla
in unicorn We are a Opera Club
Comic? she ask to know.
"'Grand they explain. We almost
never go to a opera show unless 1t
got king & queen in il wearing q
crown and spectre while singing with
talent. Do you sing, yr Majestical"
I'VE do not narrate her, but we
could take lessons
40 yr Royal Majestical" they decry
passionately. we do not care SO
muchly about yr voice. There are
several in Metropolitan Opera what
could be improved with a little prac-
tice But we come here, yr humble
& dependent subjects, looking for g
Queen 20 boss over US. Are you one
or
"'Girls, tell you how It is,' narrats
Grand Duchess. 'Cy-he are my hus-
band I retain in Paris--say he could
undoubtlessly go back to Russia &
get crowned right away. But how
would he get crowned? There are sc
many bricks now residing in Russis
that are afraid the time is either not
ripe or too rotten. Howeverly, c.
and me are willing to hire out as
King & Queen IN any nation not hav-
ing one (axept Mexico). Now, chill.
dren, rise up Sir Knight & Sir Ladies
make you all noble. If you will hirt
hall next Wed night and bora &
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crown-my own was damaged IN Gus
| tom House, and we will permit our
selves to become your Impress or
Zarina. Now run along. please. I
got date with my dentist
y X X
600 on Wed pm. hall were hired &
~ Cd Dutchess were there setting
on one of the thrones what you see
so frequent in hotel corridors. 1t
| were covered with a real ottonobile
! lap-robe. Those 500 Opera Clubbers
passby. Nothing is heard but sound
of kiss-kiss on hand and swear-word
of an Irish Police what was there to
gard the door
After that ice-cream & ham sand
wiches was passed while Her Royal
MajesticaI stand uply & make speech
| from the throne.
Nobility of our realm she COM
menced, I now and Furthermore ap-
point you First Families of America! (!
| (several ladies tainted from siprise)
TO you all 1 give the Decoration of
the Siberian Egg Plant. Hereafterly
| there shall be just 500-count en-
! 500 jennywine persons in n. Y.
| Society.
THE Imperial Duke Hall McAllis-
ter were a more stingy queen that
are. He merely permit 400 y. Y. per-
sons to get inside. But we must be
| more generous. 500 permitted. No
| bootleggers. & Before I close up, my
| faithful subjecks, I wish make a few
| laws. Never talk when yr mouth is
| full. Never address a love-letter on
| a typewriter. & when you go to thea
ters be sure to read What the Well
| Dressed Man VIII Wear. That are
| about all 1 can think up now. You
| are permitted to kiss my royal hand
(the left one, please) in passing
| out"
When I denominate all those
| thoughts to poor Jumbo Fatomato,
| who are so scarce-b Drained he cannot
read the Atlantik Monthly without a
fashlight. he seem to get so lbs.
heavier.
81 would not either live or reside
in g. place where I could not get in
Society" he gump. 'I think I should
move to Chicago, Philadelphia, Bal
timore & all points West"
What good that do?" I snarrel.
Society are chosed by size of popu-
lation. If n. Y. got 500 then Chica-
go merely got 46s. And SO onwards
down to Medicine Hat which only
got one % feeling quite alonesome.
If you think it difficulty to arrive in
the NY 500 think how despairly hard
1t would be to arrive in the Medicine
Hat One %.
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and it has 300, 900 people, and the people
say it will continue to grow until it
surpasses Soochow and becomes a
rival of Shanghai itself. l doubt its
rivaling Shanghai, but 1t bids fair to
become the Manchester Of this part
of the world.
Wusih has all our modern improve
ments, such as electricity, wide
streets, telephones and new schools.
1t has many of what the Chinese call
modern buildings, including a large
public library which Is free to the
people, and has nearly 200, 600 books.
Adjoining the library are a beautiful
public garden and park. The park is d.
vided up into lawns by hedges Of box
wood and in it are a number Of tea
houses extending along canal or facing
a pond, where one can sit with his
friends and look out over the water.
On the edge of this lake Is an artifi-
cial hill built up of rocks In an artis-
tically rugged way. On top Is a
monument erected by one OF the COL
leges to alumni. This park and it's
landscaping adornments are all new.
understand that the women of
wusih are much interested in schools,
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kettles were bare to the waist. and
clad only in trousers, stocking and
cloth shoes. All worked busily. OF
the hundreds of children I saw, not
one was loaflng or dawdling. AS
went on the reason for their industry
became evident. In each of the long
workrooms. measuring several hun
dred feet from one end to the other
and walled on each side with steam
kettles, two men clad In white walked
up and down in the space between.
They were the overseers. paid to
watch the children and keep them up
to their work. One of them carried
a bamboo brush with sharp points
which could be poked into the backs
of the girls, and in the other hand a
stick. 1 did not see either man pun
ish any girl, but 1 doubt not any
shirking would bring them both into
action.
I cannot hope to make you see what
babies these children were. Some
were hardly fit for the kindergarten,
much less for school, yet there they
were, toiling away through every
hour of the sunlight z days of the
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poses and laying eggs for the next
season, they are boiled or cooked in
ovens until the worms are killed
After that the cocoons are dried and
put in bushel baskets to be taken to
the market or to be used for spinning
at home.
During my stay in Wusih I have
visited some of the steam filatures-
great modern factories in which the
thread is unwound from the cocoons
and spun into the yarn which forms
the banks of raw silk used in the
! factories Of the world for making silk
goods.
The process is most interesting One
| of the factories 1 visited lies on the
banks of the Grand Canal some dis
| tance outside the walls of the city. I
| had to take a steam launch to go to
| it, and 1 landed at steps leading into
the factory. The establishment COW
ers more than eight acres and con-
sists of several buildings Of modern
construction. All of the machinery is
of the most modern type and is driven
by steam. and the rooms are lighted
| at night by electricity. / am told that
the work often goes on for IA hours
per day, although the manager in
formed me that the regular schedule
calls for only II hours. The silk CO.
coons are first put into copper kettles
about eight inches deep and as big
| around as a wash basin. After being
soaked and steamed they are divided
| into lots of about 16. thread of each
cocoon being fastened to a silk-reel-
ing machine which twists the whole
| 16 into one strand and so winds it
| that 1t comes out as yarn. The work
of bringing the threads together so
| that they can be twisted into one is
done by Chinese women and girls Of
perhaps Is years or older. This re-
| quires great care, and IT takes ex-
perienced hands to do It,
The scocoons are put into the steam
kettles and stirred around by chill
dren. Some of those 1 saw at work
did not reach to my waist, and scores
were. 1 Judge, not years of age.
| Some of them seemed no bigger than
| American girls of 4, or 6, and there
were hundreds working who were
| much under 10.
| T WISH I could show you these
babies at work. Their regular
hours of labor are, according to the
managers statement, at least IL every
day. During this time they stand on
their feet or sit on a bench before
| these scalding, steaming, hot kettles
All I saw were standing when I went
through the factory, and not one stool
was occupied. The water, fed into
the kettles by pipes, Is boiling hot
and thick steam always rises from
1t. The girl bends over the steam
ladies up d score or more cocoons In
scoop from a basket on the floor
and puts them into the water. She
then takes a brush of stiff bamboo
and stirs this cocoons around rapidly
so that any life in them is killed. The
| water softens the cocoons so that the
ends of the fiber spun by the worm
may be picked up and reeled off into
| the 1B-strand threads 1 have de-
scribed.
SOME Of the little ones tending tn
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To Editor The Star, who should print
few Murders in his Society
Colum SO it Will give pleasure to
all.
EAREST SIR:-Hon. Jumbo
, Fatomato. Japanese supper
dreadnaught puggalist, ap-
proach to my backyard yes
tidy am. expecting to bora
a dime (O.10O for purpose of buying
himself a shoeshine.
mo Grecian shoepolish-m could
get over your feet for that price OF
money" I narrate. TT would cost
eleven 11) cents for material. Also
you must pay for breakidge OF chair
| when you set down to be shined. !
shall not loaned you that some of
| money. Why, / ask to know, you
wish look so stylish & snapper all
of a suddenly"
Jumbo Fatomato set down like
RR station while saying, Il wish go
again and challindge Hon. Hairy
Wills to u fighting match. If l go
there with muddish spots on my teet-
| ware they will think l are not a nat
| ural gentleman"
What difference will that make. #
| any?" I require.
| hnery of collar & knecktie make Gil
men equal to anything in this free
| republick of American" he chud.
"Hushes" I report. DO not speak
| so loudly because your head will get
| chopped This are not free republick.
You are not even stylish 10 say so!i!"
| What are 1t then, If anyhow" he
exume.
| America change her Govt. about
| Dec. So I tell. Nobody know about
this axept few million persons what
was able to read the newspapers"
| What do Pres Coolidge say to such
news?" require Jumbo with swollen
| look.
He have not heard about it yet"
angle. HE are too busy to read
anything but Congressional Record,
SO he still set in white House, think
ing he are ruler of America Poor
yg man, He are so inexperienced in
Politicks that I are afraid he cannot
last"
What happened to cause such a
rumpage?" snuggest this champion
whale-weight puggalist.
| America have not got a Zarina,"
photograph.
! What are a Zarina?" Jumbo aues-
tionnaire.
"a Zarina are a ruler of Russia
afraid to go home" peruse.
Are Trotsky u Zarina?" ask my
| ignoral friend.
Not yet" 1 develop.
| yet he are a ruler Of Russia afraid
to go home" This from Jumbo Fato-
mato.
You are talking garbagew dib.
ITO be a Zarina you must be 4 lady
married to a Ear. If you wish me tell
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The yarn made in this factory is
beautiful, and as good, 1 Judge. as
can be produced anywhere. The work
seemed to be done efficiently. Every
bit of yarn which goes through the
mill is weighed by samples, each of
which is as light as a lock of hair
from the head of a baby, and the
product is graded according to tests.
I watched the weighing, which went
on at the rate of a score or more
samples per minute, the weighers
calling out the figures in musical
rhythm, while a clerk wrote them
down. 1 saw also machines which
wound off fine silk threads.
1 went into room after room where
the cocoons which had been brought
were stored in great baskets as big
as a cotton bale and where they lay
in huge piles on the floor. l asked
as to the value of one of these piles,
containing perhaps fifteen bushels,
and was told that the cocoons in it
were worth about 500 taels, which
equals something like $500.
Carpenters World Travels, Copyright, 1924
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Geo. had left with me and found
out where the boat was going also
TO Egypt, where the pictures on the
cigarette boxes come from.
Well, of course that tickled me to
DEATH pretty near, on account l
would get a slant at King Tut and
see was he really a dead one, or in
teresting like he's been reported.
He was one royalty l could be dead
certain / would be able to meet, and
if 1 come home and mentioned that
to Mrs. Joe Bush where 1 had met
the King of Egypt. why 1 need not
go into any particulars, and could
leave her draw her own conclusions.
Then OF course there was the W. k.
pyramids, and the Camels and the date
palms, SO called on account that Is
where the natives make their dates,
the same as the old apple orchards
with us back home. / was real ex-
cited over the thought. well, / will see
them all. including Cairo, but that
wasn't so much, | have often seen
Cairo in the moving pictures, also this
Sarrahrah desert they talk such a lot
about Why it amt nothing but big
beach the sea got tired Of and quit,
anyways
Believe you me, I seen so many
Sheik pictures this last year, l was
fed up. 1 wasn't going anywheres near
that desert, or any Arabs, neither. I
was conner concentrate on buying a
few of these frozen beetles they sell
over there, called scabs, or something,
and you can make them up into rings
or scarf pins, but you don't haf to
unless of course, you see the one gave
you the bug frequent.
X x x
WELL, anyways, it seems this float
ing palace with hot and cold run
ming water in every climate was next
conner stop at Naples. Italy. They got
a big Volcano in that town.
Only after Naples, which the boat
only stayed there long enough for the
tourists to purchase a few yards OF
genuine native spaghetti, why the cruise
with 400 first-class cabins moved on to
Monte Carlo, where a well known
gambling hall is run, and naturally ]
decided where George and l would
stay on the boat while in port. On
account my Uncle Will once had ex-
perience with Monte. He wasn't using
| his last name at the time, he was Just
plain Monte, and it was out West In
the old days, and while he only used
three cards, why Uncle VIII amt been
| the same since, and you know how
them gambling fellers are. Adding on
Evening star., 1925-01-11
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.
WUSIH, China


r YAVE you ever heard of Wusih?
/ doubt It. Nevertheless, it
is one of the live, up-to-
Il A date cities of the New China,
and 1t has been in existence
for 9o0-odd years. Away back in the
Middle Ages, when London was but a
village, there was a thriving town here,
a hundred miles or so inland from the
ocean. When the southern portion of
the Grand Canal was built more than a
thousand years ago, connecting Nang-
chow and Hangchow for the purpose of
giving the emperors an easier route to
the latter Heavenly City, men were do
ing business on this very spot The city
grew with the business of the canal
and centuries ago it had it's great
wall to keep out the robbers.
Later the modern movement came
IN and a railway was built connect
ing Shanghai and Nanking. 1t ran
through Wusih and the old city took
on a new lease of life. That was
only a few years ago as things go in
China, and now Wusih has rs modern
factories. 1t has far outgrown it's walls,
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NEW Y0RK'S 500 GET ROYAL DECORATION
Wallace Irwin Tells Story of japanese Schooboy

To Editor The Star, who should print
n few Murders in his Society
Colum SO it Will give pleasure to
all.
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WORLD TOUR COMPLETE i'm 40 MINUTES
Nina Wilcox

A 8 POE, the famous Am. poet
n without, so far as is known
any first name, used TO say,
when you wanner get out OF
something you have said, Quoth
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crown-my own was damaged IN Gus
tom House-I and we will permit our
selves to become your Impress or
Zarina. Now run along, please. I
got date with. my dentist
Evening star., 1925-01-11

you about this American coronation,
then you must listen. If you do not,
then let me talk"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-02
Portland Sports Cartoonist
Makes Little Error Location

A we'll conceived and we'll executed
drawing by Portland artist, appear
ing on the front page of the sport
section of the Portland Sunday tele-
gram. gave Augusta hockey fans
quite laugh yesterday because it is
evident that there was a misunder-
standing on the part of the artist.
The c. rtoon shows two hockey
players, labeled portland High" and
"Cory" trudging away in waist deep
snow. Underneath is the caption
"They agreed to postpone the game
for obvious reasons" The joker In
this picture is the fact that the
scene of the cartoon is labelled with
the words Augusta Hockey Rink"
To those who have followed the
game in this city this comes as a
laughable error as the Cony High
hockey rink was completely cleared
off Friday evening. The Saturday
game between the two schools was
scheduled to be played in Portland
and word was received here Friday
night that Portland would be unable
to have the game as their rink was
not cleared. On Saturday morning
they were asked to come to this city
to play but could not get their team
together in time to make the trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-02

Portland, Saturday, on business
Mrs. Deborah Stevens. who has been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. 3. +. Nichols,
returned TO her home in Portland.
Clayton Atkins of Port
lana passed the weekend at his
home.-Miss Pauline Cilley, 20, and
Miss Ards Hunter, '27. students at
NJ. c. l., Pittsfield, were overnight
guests Friday of Miss Mary Rollins.
H. S. Crosby of Vassalboro was an
overnight guest Friday of Mr.. and
Mrs. Philip Brown.-Mrs. Victor
Trenway. who has been visiting Mrs.
Roscoe Clifford. has returned to her
home in Strong.-Mrs. Nellie La
CrouX Is very ill at the Sisters hos
pltai, where she recently underwent
an operation. w. f. Burgess is able
to be out again. after being confined
to his home by illness.-Guy Ward
of Troy. Me. NJ. c. I. '26. visited his
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. w. f..
McCHntock, and cousin, Mrs. Percy
shower, over the week-end.-W. +.
Mitchell was in Clinton, Saturday, on
buslness.-Herbert Stewart of Show
began was business caller in town
Saturday.-M. L. Holden Of Moose
River is passing few days In town
ed the week end in Gardiner.-Friends
of William X. Ward, formerly of this
town. will be sorry to learn that he
is seriously i'll at his home on Oak
street in Waterville.--Mrs. Lewis EN-
erson Is confined to her home on Ger
aid Terrace with neuritis.-The little
son of Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Twitchell of
Western avenue has been named Ell
mer Gould.-LeWis Emerson returned
to Belgrade, where he is employed,
after passing the week end at his
home on Gerald Terrace.-Donald
Humphrey and Ed Karam Of Pittsfield
We're overnight guests Friday of Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis Emerson.-Mrs.
George Stafford. Mrs. Irene Chad
bourne and daughter Geraldine were in
| Lewiston Saturday shopping-Mr. and
Mrs. Eli Brown of Clinton passed Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Will Brown on
Elm street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-02
Dean Fem Speaks
Before College Club
Saturday Evening

With So members and guests pres
ent, the anniversary meeting of the
Augusta College club. held at the
home of Mrs. Ernest l.. Mclean, Sat
urday evening. was a most enjoyable
affair. Rev. William Wallace Fem,
formerly dean Of the Harvard divin-
ity school was the speaker Of the
evening and held the closest atten-
ton of his auditors with his scholar
ly talk on Fourth Century Ideals of
Christian Womanhood."
Dean Fem in opening his address
explained that he was presenting in
formation and quotations from the
letters Of, Jerome, whose ideal Of
Christian womanhood was exempli-
fed in Paula, the Roman lady, a
wealthy patrician Of the most aristo-
cratic lineage.
Another enjoyable feature of the
Saturday evening program was the
presentation Of musical selections by
a trio-piano. and violins-with Mrs.
Dan Huntington Fem and the Miss
es Lucy Titcomb and Irene Tetreault
playing.
The birthday cake was donated by
Mrs. Arthur l.. Thayer and bore two
, lighted candles for the years of the
clubs existence and seven for the
founders. Most dainty and delicious
refreshments We're served by the
hostesses, who besides Mrs. Mclean,
were Mrs. Llewellyn Edwards, Mrs.
Arthur L. Thayer. Mrs. Augustus O..
Thomas, Mrs. Andrew T. McWhorter
Mrs. Thomas S. Smith and Mrs. Fred
w. Burrill