Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1928, Page 21

- PIGEON WHISTLES PLANNED BY ARMY |but the examinations were refined and #Ancient Chinese Device Being Tried Out to Protect Birds. Whistles for pigeons is an ancient Chinese device which the United States Army plans to try out. In fastening whistles to tail feathers of messenger pigeons the Army hopes | {0 frighten off hawks. Bamboo pigeons pines have long been used in China to Pprotecct the birds. Western clvilization never ceases to tearn from China. “Every year brings to the United | States some marvel from the treasure chest of China's ancient civilization,” says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C. headquarters of the National Geographic Society. Cabbage and Cotton. “This year po tsia, or Chinese cab- bage, has invaded even the chain grocery stores of some American cities and the big, red Crinese persimmons | decorate the vegetable stalls. 'This | year new salves and ointments bloom on drug store shelves as palliatives for | hay fever sufferers, and their essential | element is ma huang, a drug used for centuries in the Far East. Ma huang, or medicinal grass, grows wild in north | Cathay is shown by the report that the | imperial library contained, even as early S. China and the exports of it to the United States have sprun from nothing | to 622,000 pounds in 1927. | “China has also helped American cot- i ton growers to determine fertile from infertile seeds, according to a recent | recommendation of the Department of | Agriculture, which approves the Ori- | ental practice of placing cotton seeds in water and planting only those which | sink. “Mah-jongg, the Chinese game, has come and almost gone agaln, but tung oil, the preservative whicl protect- ed Chinese junks for aj d makes ossible the tremendous Chinese house- oat population, now comes into this | country at the rate of a hundred mil- | dion pounds annually, valued at ap- proximately $10,000,000. So important has tung oil become to American in- dustry that the Department of Com- merce has arranged for a monthly cable report of prices at Hankow, Probable Chinese Firsts. “Nearly every one knows the more Pamous discoveries like gunpowder and rinting. Other Chinese ‘firsts’ some- imes escape attention. Among them | are India ink (really China ink), domi- »oes, silk, tea, playing cards, dice, en- cyclopedias, chess, dictionaries, movable type, porcelain, rag, wood and rice paper, &tone engravings. certain lacquers, arti- fclal pearls, goldfish, stitched books, Chi- nese lanterns, jade mines, Pekingese dogs, chow dogs, water-tight compartments for ships, peaches, firecrackers, peonies and seismographs, not to mention soy sauce, and bean sprouts, and probably spinach, onions, cabbage, green peas, cacumbers, caulifiower and eggpant. In some cases the ultimate ancestry of these products and devices is obscure, though Europe first learned of them from China. “The writings of Shen Kua mention ! he etic needle in the eleventh cen- | tury A.D, long before Western civiliza- | tion discovered it to be the key to navi- gation. The same author gives the earli- est description of printing with movable | type. There is also good evidence that one Ts'ai Lun first made rag paper in 105 A.D., while the first recipe for true Jampblack ink appears in a document dated 540 A.D. “The Peking Gazette, which ceased publication in 1900, had been issued daily since about 714 AD. and thus ‘was one of the oldest of newspapers, al- though in the style of a government bul- letin. Some Chinese claim that their nation had the first well developed postal system and the first air mail. In support of the latter tradition the Chi- — COLUMBIA RD.¥T 18 BST] OPPOSITES AMBASSADOR! TONIGHT 5 Until 7:30 4-Course 7 5c SEA FOOD f S A S S I R e NN DINNER Columbia 5042 " The Leading Oriental Rug House of Washington Nazarian Bros. 1739 Conn. Ave. N.W. Wonderful Examples of Semi-Antique Oriental Rugs Lovers of the Oriental Art of Rug Weaving enthuse over slese remarkable examples of rug weaving. They are one of a kind pieces in sizes from the door mat to the 16x27-it. carpet. Ours is a “ONE PRICE” establishment. We ba: figures on the lowest cos! do not indulge in occasional sales-making reductions from ious values. nese postal flag bears the design of a flying goose, recalling that trained geese once were used to carry messages. The Chinese were also the first to use paper money. Printing of paper in 807 led directly to the organization of the first bank at Ichow about 950. “Civil service tests for the selection of Government officials began in 140 B.C., their use extended under the Mings about the period when America was discovered Men’s colleges, and even women’s col- leges, date back many centuries. These facts and many others on China's eivil- ization are obtainable because of an- cient books preserved in ancient libra- ries. The antiquity of such libraries in as the eighth century, 53,951 book: Silk Goes Back to Dim Past. “Yet much of Chinese progress be- longs to a past so dim that fixing the discovery of silk In 2700 B. C.. and the invention of the plow in 2800 B. C.. and crediting the first to Princess Si Ling- chee and the second to a man named Shennung, must be rated as mythical as the deeds of the Knights of the Round Table. tacts with Europe are little known. So many Chinese discoverles appeared in Europe immediately after Genghis Khan struck farthest west that' it seems_probable he spread information as well as terror. Trade with China s so uncertain that Chinese figured silks were called damask, for Damascus, a halfway shipping city: Chinese- Ink was known—and still is known—as India ink. “Later, as exchange of ideas in- creased, China put more indelible marks on the newer Western civiliza- ton. The fine old colonial chairs in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of New York are really Mr. Heppelwhite's adaptations of Chinese designs brought to London from China by English travelers in the eighteenth century. Designs for decoration of chinaware have also been copied; for example, the famous willow tree pat- tern, a copy of Nanking blue china, in- troduced into England in 1780 and now a collector’s prize. Inspiration for the entire rococo period of furnishings in the eighteenth century has been traced to China, and the vogue for Chinese gardens is still with'us. Drilling With Bamboo Pipes. “With nothing more than bamboo pipes to work with, the Chinese drilled salt wells 2,000 feet deep years before Occidentals attained such depths. With- out sclentific backgrounds, the Celes- | tial has been for ages a successful fish breeder. and he learned, no one knows how or when, to feed his soil the proper food and to rotate his crops with le- gumes which add nitrogen to the soil. Oriental farmers practiced bud grafting and may have been first in this art, and their ancient but practical methods of cold storage insure Peking 8 supply of fresh, big red persimmons all Winter and Spring. While the American South was clogging its streams with discarded cottonseed, Cathay already pressed cot- tonseed ofl and fed stock on cotton- seed cakes. “As early as 801 AD. a Chinese scholar had made a map of China 20 Even the earliest con- | miles to the inch. Provincial and county Each of these sevent items is an emphatic son for your visit STORE during this omy event Tell y take advantage of th minded men Scotch grain. ous | OPERA GLASSES | The theater-going | season is at hand, which leads us to remind “First Night- ers” and other play- goers that a good pair of opera glasses will tend to add much to the evening’s enjoy- ment. | The most reliable makes will be found in our stock—all moderately priced. | A .oHahincIne ists Opticians 935 F Street 26 Years at the Same Address Optome Fall 2-Trousers Suits A rare opportunity to secure a finer grade 2-trousers suit at an unusual price. Models for Men and Young Men, splendidly tailored of correctly patterned suitings. 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Rumors that geographies dating back to 140 A.D. and revised every 30 years show more details in local areas than those of any other nation on earth. Fuel briquettes are not new to China as they are to us, or is the use of natural gas and petroleum for industrial processes. Our oiled paper containers, just coming into use, can scarcely compare with the olled paper bags that will hold 380 pounds of tung oil without bursting.” Be The Judge (,BEND the sole of a genuine Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoe. Step on it! Then you can sece and feel why it puts health and vigor in you. We’re ready to give you a demonstration any time. . J. P. Smith Shoe Co., 1318 G St. NW. | LikeWalking on Velvet! l Makers Economical Men een specially priced and convincing rea- ing THE MEN’'S semi-annual econ- rour friends ahout “Men's Weck,” they too will want to e savings. will appreciate. 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