Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1930, Page 36

THE EVENING STORY One of World-Famous Works of Literature . Festival of the Leaping Tortoise. | i BY PIERRE LOTL (Plerre Lotl, 1850-1923. riter. author of that d ®f old Japan, was & Prench| iehtful romance | ‘Madame Chrysantheme.”) “How fortunate we are! This very| evening there is to be a pligrimage to| the great temple of the Leaping Toi ‘The whole town will be there.” We find the town in all the anima- tion of a great festival. The streets are thronged. The crowd passes us by— a laughing, capricious, slow, unequal tide, flowing onward, steadily in the same direction, toward the same goal. There follow lanterns upon lanterns. | Never in my life have I seen so many, s0_variegated and so extraordinary. There are groups of women of every | age, decked out in their smartest| clothes. f young | girls with aigrettes of flowers in their hair or little silver topknots—pretty | little faces, little narrow eyes peeping | between slit lids like those of a newborn kitten; fat, pale little checks: round, puffed-out, half opened lips. They are these_little Nipponese, in their nd childishness. | The men wear many a pot hat. added | They ur.—yl boughs in their hands, even whole | shrubs, amid the foliage of which dangle’ all sorts of curious lanterns in | the shape of imps and birds. i As we advance in the direction of the | temple the streets become more noisy | and crowded. All along the houses are | endless stalls,raised on trestles, display- ing sweetmeats of every ocolor, to; branches of flowers, bouquets ai masks. There are masks everywhere, boxes full of them. carts full of them.| the most popular being the livid and cunning muzzle, represented in a death- like grimace, the long straight ears sharp-pointed teeth of the white fox. sacred to the God of Rice. There are other masks symbolic of | gods or monsters, livid. grimacing, con- | vulsed, with wigs and beards of natura! | hair, All manner of folk, even children, | purchase these horrors and fasten them over their faces. Every sort of instru- ment is for sale, among them many of these crystal trumpets which sound so strangely—this evening they are enor- mous, 6 feet long, at least—and the noise they make is unlike anything ever heard before—one would say giant tur- keys gobblinr: among the crowd, striving | to inspire fear. All along the streets leading to the temple the wealthy inhabitants have decorated fronts of their houses with vases and flowers. The peculiar shed- like buildings, wita their open platform frontage, are well suited for the dis- glly of choice objects. All the houses ave been thrown open and the in- teriors are hung with draperies that| hide the backs of the apartments. The streets gradually ascend temples are always built on a height). and by degrees as we mount up there is | added to the brilliant fairyland of lan- terns and costumes yet another, ethere- ally blue in the haze of distance. All Nagasaki, its pagodas, its mountains, its still waters full of the rays of moon- light. seems to rise up with us into the air. Slowly, step by step, one may say it 1prll‘$: up around, enveloping in one great immering veil all the fore- grount ith its dazzling red lights and many-colored streamers. No doubt we are getting near, for There ate the religious steps, porticos and monsters hewn out of enormous blocks of granite. We now have to climb a se- ries of steps, almost carried by the surg- ing crowd ascending with us. The tem- ple courtyard—we have arrived. This is the last and most astonishing scene in the evening's fairy tale—a lu- :’n“hgu.s Inll.i‘ ;l::;d lcee;, m&h hnun& nces up moon & the the sacred gigantic merias, stretching rk somber boughs liks a vast dome. | Behind us, in the lit-up and wide- | open temple, the priests sit, immovable | embodiments of doctrine, in the glit- | tering sanctuary inhabited by divinities, chimeras and symbols. The crowd, mo- mnotonously droning its mingled prayers and laughter, presses around them, sow- ing its alms broadcast, with a continuous {ll:ule. ‘The money rolls on the ground to the precincts 1 to the priests, where the white mats entirely disappear under the mass of many sized coins, accumulated there as after 2 deluge of silver and bronze. Glou! Glou! Glou! The crystal trumpets slowly repeat their notes, the ngemu sonority of which has a la- red and smothered sound, as though they came from under wi ‘They mingle with the jingling of rattles and the noise of castanets. A sort of reli- gilous terror is diffused by the hidden idols in the temple behind us, by the mumbled prayers, confusedly heard: above all by the horrible heads in lac- quered wood representing foxes whioh, as they pass, hide human faces—hide- ous, livid masks. In the gardens and outbuildings of the temple the most inconceivable mountebanks have ‘taken up their Highest Praise for Miller’s Herb | Extract THE EVENING quivers, then M‘-}H bursts forth into funmeral shrieks, a concert of owls. The Lag is now eating and her wolfish shadow is eating also, greedily ‘n:gvlnr ':tl“hv- Indmnlbbnn( at m- other shadow ea: recognize—the arm of a lictle child, We now go to see the great sala. | mander of Japan, an animal rare in this country and quite unknown elsewhere, inted |a great cold mass, sluggish and be- neral | pumbed, looking like some antediluvian experiment, forgotten in the inner seas | of this archipelago. quarters, their black streamers, pa. with white letters, looking like fu trappings as they float in the wind from the top of their tall flagstafls. In one of the booths a man stretched | Next comes the trained elephint, the on a table, flat on his back, is alone on | terror of the young girls; then the the stage: puppets of almost human | equilibrists or balancers, the menagerie. size with horribly grinning masks,| So end the wonders. spring out of his body. Thy speak | . k like empty > gesticulate, then fall bac e pty | Valuable Dogl Poisoned? rags. thhn sudd;enk.spnnx Lheyhsu!r;: v~ again, change their costumes, chan: HICAGO, Ma: = Bl thelt” tacée, tearing bont in one ocon- |- CEICACD, Mgl 8 ey S pol- 20 others were reported dying tinual frensy. Suddenly three, even |(o™ four, appear at the same time. They |y, North Shore suburbs. A possible con- are nothing more thah the four Imbs| noction between the potsoning and the of the outstretched man, whose IgS| ecent firing of Irene Castle McLaugh- and arms, raised on high, are each one | J{UY o U a0y o er with the loss dressed up and capped with a Wig. Un- | of 93 dogs was seen by residents of the Ger which peers a mask. Between these | Qicrict *who have formed s vigllance phantoms tremendous fighting and bat-| committ-e to protect “man’s best friend.” tling take place and many a sword “'The dead dogs included a Boston (er- thrust is exchanged. Irier valued at $200, two $300 Airedales The most fearful of all is a certaln and a $300 police dog. puppet representing an old hag. Every time she appears, with her weird head and ghastly grin. the lights burn low, | the music of the accompanying orches- | tra moans forth a sinister strain given| by the flutes, mingled with a rattling tremolo which sounds like the clatter of bones. This creature evidently plays an ugly part in the plece—that of a horrible old ghoul, spiteful and fam- ished. Still more appalling than her person is her shadow, which, project:d upon a white screen, is abnormally and vividly distinct. By means of some un- HOUSE WIRED known process this shadow, which ne for electricity ertheless follows all her movements, sumes the aspect of a Wolf. At a given moment the hag turns round and presents the profile of her | distorted snub nose as she accepts the | bowl of rice which is offered her. 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