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Terms: Cash on delivery.
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SHORT STODIES,
THE HAPPINESS OF CHINA.
ME. BERTRAND RUSSELL'S IMPRESSIONS.
Mr. Bertrand Russell has written the following letter on his experiences in China, which appears in the London Nation
On the Tangise, 28th October. Since Landing in China we have had a most curious and interesting time, spent, so far, entirely among Chiness students and journalists who are more
SING SING PRISON.
POPULAR INSTITUTION.
NO MORE "FREE HOTEL LIFE."
moet beautiful scenery in China. This was merely holiday. The Western Lake is not large about the size of Grasmere it is surrounded by wood- ed hills, on which there are innumer- able pagodas and temples. It has Life in Sing Sing, New York State's been beautified by poets and emperors "home for convicts," has become so for thousands of years. (Apparently attractive that prisoners have been poets, in ancient China, were as known to plead guilty to felony in- financiers in modern Europe). We stead of misdemeanour in order to spent one day in the hills-a twelve- obtain admission, with the result that hour expedition in Sedan chairs-and the text in seeing country houses, monasteries, &c., on islands in the lake. Chinese religion is curiously cheerful. When one arrives at a tem
the prison, situated on the beautiful banks of the Hudson River, is now this establishment conform more to overcrowded. In an effort to make the average conception of a prison rather than an hotel whose guests are or less Europeanized. I have deliver ple, they give one a cigarette and a cared for free of charge, the superin- ed innumerable lectures-on Einstein, cup of delicately fragrant tea. Then tendent has now imposed what he education and social questions. The they show one round. Buddhista, considers stringent rules. Under the cagerness for knowledge on the part which one thinks of as ascetic, is bere new regulations convicts from now on of students is quite extraordinary. quite gay. The saints have fat will be prohibited from wearing jewel- When one begins to speak, their eyes stomachs, and are depicted as people lery, courting women, dining sumptu have the look of starving men beginn- who thoroughly enjoy life. No oneously, writing love-letters, or dress- ing a feast. Everywhere they treat seems to believe the religion, not evening in stylish mode. The clothing of me with a most embarrassing respect, the priests. Nevertheless, one sees all inmates henceforth must be uni- The day after I landed in Shanghai many rich new temples. The country form, which means that silk hosiery they gave a vast dinner to us,, at houses are equally hospitable-one is or shirts, fancy ties, and white collars which they welcomed me as Confucins shown round and given tea. They the Second We had to speak to in- are just like Chinese pictures with numerable schools, teachers' confer many arbors where one can sit, with ences, congresses, etc. It is a country everything made for beauty and no-
of curious contrasts. Most of Shanghai aing for comfort-except in the is quite European, almost American; grandest rooms, where there will be
the names of streets, and notices and little bideous European furniture. advertisements are in English (as well
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will not be permitted, although pri- soners may indulge in private socks, underwear, and fannel shirts of * quier colour.
Courting while a guest of the State" will no longer be sanctioned under the new rule, which denies pri- soners the privilege of visits from
The most delicious place we saw on females except those of his immedi-
as in Chinese); the buildings are mag scholars, built about 500 years ago, ing" will be discouraged.
the Western Lake was a retreat for ate family. "Promiscuous letter writ nificent offices and banks; every-
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thing looks very opulent. "Bat the on the lake. Scholars certainly had will not be permitted to order meals side streets are still Chinese. It a pleasant life in old China. !! from outside the prison, and hence- is a vast city, about the size of Glas- Apart from the influence of Euro- forth must rely on the prison fare for
Feans, China makes the impression of sustenance.
gow.
what Europe would have become if
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One of the leading Chinese news- papers invited us to lunch, in a modern the eighteenth century had gone on ing place. There are about three building, completed in 1917, with all till now without industrialism or the handred Europeans in Cheng-sha, but the latest plant (except linotype, French Revolution. People seem to Europeanisation has not gone at all which can't be used for Chinese e rational hedonists, knowing very far. The town is just like a medieval characters). The editorial staff gave well how to obtain happiness, ex-town-narrow streets, every house a us a Chinese meal at the top of the quisite through intense cultivation shop with a gay sign hung out, no houss with Chinese wine made of of their artistic sensibilities, differing traffic possible except Sedan chaira rice, and innumerable dishes which from Europeans through the fact that and a few ricshas. The Europeans wete with chop-sticks. When we they prefer enjoyment to power. have a few factories, a few banks, a had finished eating they remarked People laugh a great deal in all classes, few missions, and a hospital-the that one of their number even the lowest.
was
whole gamut of damaging and repair- fond of old Chinese mosic, and would The Chinese cannot pronounce my ing body and soul by Western me- like to play to us. So he produced name, or write it in their characters. thods. The governor of Hunan is an instrument "with seven strings, They call me "Luo-Su," which is the the most virtuous of all the governors made by himself on the ancient model, nearest they can manage. This they of Chinese provinces, and entertained out of black wood 2,000 years old, can both pronounce and print, which he had taken from a temple.
us last night at a magnificent banquet. From Hangchow we went back to Professor and Mrs. Dewey were pre- The instrument is played with the Shanghai, thence by rail to Nanking, sent; it was the first time I had met fingers, like a guitar, but is laid flat on an almost deserted city. The wall is them. The governor cannot talk any the table, not held in the hand, twenty-three miles in circumference, European language, so, though I sat They assured us that the music he but most of what it encloses is conn- next him, I could only exchange com. played was 4,000 years old, but that tiy. The city was destroyed at the pliments through an interpreter; but (I imagine) must be an overstate- end of the Taiping rebellion, and I got a good impression of him; he is ment. In any case, it was exquisite-again injured in the Revolution of certainly very anxious to promote ly beautiful, very delicate, easier for a 1911. But it is an active educational education,which seems the most European ear than more recent music centre, eager for news of Einstein and crying need in China;: Without it it (uf which I have heard a good deal). Bolchevin,% When the music was over they be
is hard to see how better government From Nanking we went up the can be introduced. It must be said came again a staff of bustling journa- Tangtse to Hankow-about three that bad government seems somewhat Lista
days journey, through very lovely leas disastrous in China than it would From Shanghai our Chinese friends scenery-thence by train to Cheng- be in a European nation; but this is, took us for three nights to Hangchow sha, the capital of Hunan, where a perhaps, a superficial impression on the Western Lake, said to be the "great educational conference was take which time may correct.
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