The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1926, Page 2

erie y PASE TWO Tuk LY CiTIZIN jbut belongs to the wife number} one, who otders its dresses, its diets, and perhaps, if it is anothér girl burden, its death. So she takes a chance that the change will befor her as for many thou- Pansececececccessensence Flashes of Life es ebssoccecoccgoosoooces ANNIVERSA DR: HARRY N. S. DENTIST. 532 Fleming Street _ OFFICE HOURS: silent on ship canal across Ni York state until he has investi- gated best route. ‘ ee | first appearance in opera in| President Coolidge plans VIEWS, ON CHINESE POPULACE By BIRL F. ADAMS pnaen ‘NEW YORK—Pure whiskey and third rail bootleg stuff have heen had at Belleview Hospital by General Andrews so that tests shall be made as to the effect of hooch on topers. The hospital has informed the general that the annual. average of deaths from aleoholism in New York is 500. Recently I attended a lecture on China and, owing to my having spent some time in that country, I listened with much interest to the ‘competent and -interesting speaker, however ,there was very little said in this lecture the manner of living, the mental awakening and the view of life of about} | with older married women, or to} the shops, or she has. been able to} | snatch a few moments to pass out} into the streets to enjoy the erowd- |ing, jostling, shuffling sight of endless streams of rickshas drawn by sweating man, stately camels swaying through the narrow | Streets, rumbling carts with solid/ tand other brides euch year. She may even be made to seek peace in the green, stagnant, and slimy water many feet below the curb- ing of some old well, or in some other manner as . dreadful or worse. Very Industrious In spite of all these facts, they Henry H. Curran-resigns as im- jmigration commissioner at Ellis 1906—Susan B. Anthony, fa-/tcjand; denies Cathcart case was mous pioneer of the woman suf- | -cnonsible. . : : frage movement, died at Roches- | = ter, N. ¥. Born at South Adams, Mass., Feb. 15, 1820. | "1924 The Seandinavian coun- tries entered into-a general arbi- {tration agreement. 1845—John Frederiek “Dgniell, chemist and physicist, who ifitro- duged gas lighting in many Euro- pean. cities, died in London. Born | there March 12, 1790.” “ 1854—Names of. Sir - John | Franklin, his officers and crew removed from the. British Navy list, there being mo -hope’ any. ROBERTS & WHALTON REAL ESTATE BROKERS 8:30 to 12.30; 2:00 to 6:90 Some 50 cases of champagne have been seized on steamships, President Polk and . President Hayes: “Most of. it was marked “Alum,” “colored earth” and “sul- phate of aluminum.” Goy. Baxter, of Maine; back from @broad, thinks prohibition is aiding the commerce of the Unit- ed States. Magistrates Corrigan and Gor- don: disagree’ as to whether’ sell- ing liquor constitutes disorderly conduct under the state statutes. The one released a defendant; the other imposed a fine. tone WILLIAMANTIC, Con n— To gangs, gunmen and bootleggers on Manhattan Island are largely due the retreat of Christian ehurchés-——“‘well nigh a national ity,”—in the opinion of Dr. a DB. Hs Forsyth, of Philadelphia, secretary of the M. E. Home Mis- sions Board. * SAN ANTONIO—G. E. Harri- son, federal prohibition agent, is @ reward of $50 offered by Gov. Ferguson for conviction of a dry law violation worth over $5,000, Harrison convicted one worth $5,470. 5 * do raise. children and they grow up to form a race that is far frem unlovable, and the most indus- trious race in the* world, I be- lieve. The lack of sentiment | leaves one just learning to know | them with a* curious almost dis- | appointed sense of something lacking. _ There the men do not flirt and women as well. They do not rave of their lover’s beauty. ‘The women dress very attractive | in brilliant colors, but do not} try to attract the attention of | the opposite sex or try to entice | him in any way. They do not have the pleasure of dancing or} attending other amusements. | Their maiden souls don’t learn to; gush over novels of fiction, but) they escape many heartaches and} girlish grieving over the faithless. They miss the cooing of courtship and the hugging of the honey- moon. They also miss jealousy, rivalry, and divorce courts. They| lose out on notices in the papers} bordered with cupids and arrows) and hearts announcing the forth- coming event. They don’t get the solitaires, flowers and other pres- ents that put a crimp in a young man’s savings, but they do get the young man, most generally well fixed financially, according to the standards of the circles in which the young people move. It is guaranteed that he will neither squander money on his wife or any cre else, but to pass his life in seeing to it that he is always gett- ing ahead of the game and that his wife’s presence shall do him credit. And if after the best way of living does not seem to prove out as happy as it could be and his love for his winsome bride cools as she develops wrinkles, he may | legally take to himself another the Chinese people (the strangest racial people on earth). Lecturers speaking on China have impressed me as being too eager to dwell on China’s politics, and revolutions. The various} groups of political .adventurers and predatory chieftains, amongst whom at the present time stand out conspicuously Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, the Manchurian war lord, | wooden iron-tired wheels studded | with bolts. Perhaps affording now and then a glimpse of some bride going stoically to”her fate, | lor probably there will pass a long struggling funeral procession. In front of which, are the bearers of| emblems, two by two at a good | distant apart, following these are |trumpeters with great ‘ wooden |bell-mouthed trumpets with two and Marshal Wu-Pie-Fu, who was|}men to each. Then comes the ousted from control of the central] booming drums. Next is the paid government’s armies during the|™mourners in green and gold with fall. of 1924, and the so-called) red tassled hats, following these is christian General (Feng) who|the family all dressed in white played a prominent part in the)mourning and then the immense overthrow of Marshal Wu-Pie-Fu coffin with from eighteen» to by leaving his sector at the front eighty bearers. Behind ‘these during the Civil war of 1924 andjcomes the effigies: the favorite | marching his troops into Peking, of the deceased, the effigy of his and taking over the capital while) favorite horse, his favorite potted his superior and commander-in- | flower, his favorite wife, dressed chief (Marchal Wu-Pie-Fu) -was|in paper effi which is to be directing the government forces at| burned upon his funeral pyre. She the front, near Chinwangtae, andjhas seen these and the detach- the mode] Tuchun of Shansi, have! ments of soldiers, police, and the taken up a major part of every|street sprinklers, beggars, chain- talk on China that I have heard re-|gangs, convicts.and their large cently, group of guards, the long chains Micny Qusstinns fo eS with merchandise, the . Page | is of salt, which is revenue I suppose from time to time! rn the different provinces and th hi bi doz 7 people asked me what I thought] cartloads of “sam shin” (the native |gin), carts. loaded. with silver about China. But do they ever|>', : consider the extent of what they|°°S without a single man to jguarc them except the driver. 2 Thi dred | , ask? There are oyer four hun red | Dccasionnlly. beetles heads of million people residing in China; = and, taking them from North to Sheep with bla@@k faces and great South and from East to West, they|{#t circular tails, droves of pigs, present as many perplexing con-| baskets of fowls and here and trasts as that number of any othe,|‘"¢re drifting along with the race may be supposed to. It is|°70Wd is that curious affair, the true that 1 was stationed at the Chinese traveling kitchen. Per- capital city, but the fact was a/@ps she has at lucky times had handicap rather than an advantage|# Copper coin “handy that she in studying the Chinese. There could hail the man carrying the the type is more uniform and Tons} Dentadle Straen Aad iat =e ronpounced., There is less of the; So: taroug! e delig! 01 ; wi y sere atk ng ast “quaintly | ™ixing, seasoning, shaping and | »*die, rege Nee ae F aed primitive and more of the stand-|bsking, right there at the front | *i¢ — Se basins ia Ae SS ardized type. Whether this makes| 4°°T, little tasty dish. Of course, re % at a ne RERER S| for a more nearly composite and | She also saw the different trades- | able, —< 2 le hes pole representative species I do not|™em, the traveling barber shop exchange for the surrender of her kiow. To start with: What is it/@nd the meat peddlers, and the|‘laims to sole proprietorship of iates, Priests, and on special oceasions | ht husband’s uncertain snd wer sant ae smal, ot ‘3 \ering allegiance. Thence forward ee es eee ee oe her position is unassailable and se- ; + i “fore is his manners, and his customs for| fear a Pod et ot: a “foreign eure. She does not experience the one part; and for the other part:| “evil” (Foreign soldiers of the low heart break of loved his mental mgke-up, and his. view sitterpnt Jegations).. But. now wine by acting fer busbhnd ee! r 5 in| are a of lifey The latter; “of course, is| "Se cays oes: “ars <e¢ | cold, neglectful and inattentive, f their being alive. longer of. their being alive. OFFICE: Corner Fleming and Margaret Streets Cable Address: Trot Phone 788 P. 0. Box 182 KEY WEST, FLORIDA We Solicit Your Listings, Both City Property and Key Acreages IF IT IS RESULTS YOU WANT, WE GET IT 1925—U. S. Senate ratified the 20-year-old ‘treaty recognizing Cuban sovereigny over the Isle of Pin 1874—Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Glass, Catholic bishop of Salt Lake City, born at Bushnell, DL Died in Los Angeles, Jan. 26, 1926. Medicine Druggists. B. J. CHENEY & €0, Toledo, 0. 1882—Thousands of lives were lost in an earthquake in. 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Johnson. -_* IS. THE AUTOMATIC IRON it was not a good iron*we would not- be-handling -it. i f : it eal ¥ORK—Tady Cynthia has gone back to England having séen the Charles- “But those things are all everything one ought to [ mainly the difference, the former is merely its outward expressions. Lacking the training of a spéc- ialist on psychology, how can I pro- ject myself into the national mind of China and then portgay it for you? In the classic phrase of a U. S. marine: “It can’t be did. I can only give the impression I have formed through a thousand little personal contacts, experi- ences and guesses, ; Lack Sentiment The Chinese, I believe, are the most materialistic people in the world, They are almost entirely lacking-in sentiment, except of the rarest, instinctive kind. They like fine scenery and music (of their in her babyhood she was married to some baby boy whom she had never seen and now the time has come when she is to be actually junited to him. Sourness is what she receives from all the family, who have to furnish the dowry, (without which the sweetest little flower of Chinese maidenhood would be “short changc” to her lord). If by chance she does happen to surprise in someone a lock that is not unkind, it is only a share of moody satisfaction that a burden is about-to be re- leased. How can she help but shrink in terror from marriage to ‘a man unknown to her? Probably \he isa beast, insane, deceased or erimin: Fer any change must but she has the dignity, power and unquestioned rights of the dow- ager-consort. If she has been thrifty and her husband prosper- ous, she is likely to be wealthier than he, for his fortune has been risked many times and. probably sometimes damaged, while hers in saving, is safe, secure and sound, and being secret too, more times than not, is doubly a source of power. People thus naked without sen- timent and also without illusions poss setrarstiiaagace wer Riel o se EMR ee iE (Continued on Page 8) THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC COMPANY JOE MONTICINO, Sales Manager 5 own weird sort), They are inter-)ho for the better. A little more ested. in each other; a play or 8! freedom; to mix in society? Oh, picture interests them; they are/no! But with other married wo- fond of their children, and youn} men where society is unknown. husbands feel warmly interested There will be new and interesting in their brides. Extreme cases! thirgs, at least, someone whom may be prevalent where brides feel/she can order about in her own tenderly toward their husbands, apartments. She has loved her but for passionste. feeling, for! dolls of course, but if she is only stirring and self-forgetting, ¢x-| wife number two, or three, or yet sig nagrorgen ae there cart more distant, she need. not look ¢ for the Chinese only one excuse “doll some | and thet is, gain or loss: Front) ets och “ena teks ‘and love api oes af infancy, this trait ond to feel the soft breathing organ! , trained and develop-' f x, "TAR right handy. It checks |ed. From the time when the tiny| OPO het breast and morlne gut sudden and spre onset | elf-like child is so frail and feeble) Chinese customs, her baby, her vi strangling, | that on the streets it is in danger} ,. } of being snapped up by any) ttle other self is not her own, prowling hungry dog, that little) shell of humanity is perfectly well) able, clutching in its hands its seanty copper and brass coins, to! teddle to the market and there} chaffer, abuse, slander, and wheedle a bargaining, like any old toothless grandmother. 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