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Against this background. End against the southern escarpment of the Mongolian plateau, where it abuts on Shanel, la set the elty of Kucihuacheng. called Kukukhoto or the Blue City by the Hongots, The tribe formerly, in posserston of all this part of what le now the North-western Special Area, wore the Tumets. In 1613, when Likdan
Khan of Chu still unconquered
What these can be I do not under- intand, unless they are like the fossilised horns sometimes dug up in Honan The Chinese call them Dragon Teeth and they too have their honourable place in the Chi-j nese pharmacopeia,
The traders of Kuethua are tho right men for their adventurous!
NO ONE WILL DIE.
:
SCORN THE SCHOLAR AND
·LAUD THE ATHLETE..
A GOLDEN AGE.
but profitable commerce with the golden age is approaching far fringes of what was once an when men and women will be im Empire. Some of the great trade mortal, according to Dr. Will ng houses were founded: 200 years Durant, an American doctor of and more ago by merchant' adven philosophy.
He foresees the normal span of turore from Shunal, the province which has played in the exploitelife gradually being lengthened, tion of the Western trade the part as man probes deeper into the that Devon played in Elizabethan secrets of science, and believes England. The man however, whe that in a hundred years from now owns the largest caravan arm and centenarians will be quite com- is the head of the caravan guild mon.
did not inherit his business bút "Man may some day overcome! atates. "The age
Chahars was making war to extend started as a lad of 17, lending, death," he
comels on the Kuchongtze rond.when men will cease to die may his rule over the whole of Inner From Kushengtze to Kdelhus the have its inconveniences, but there Mongolia, the Tumets of Kukukhotu outer road is the longer, but makes is nothing either in science or placed themselves under the pro-for caster and more rapid travel, philosophy inconsistent with the
tection of the Tsar of Russin. As
make more secure
as bannermen. $
"
Ancient Glories.
this valled them nothing material-as it Hes through the grasslands idea of the eventual immortality
caravans take 120 of the body. ly, in 1633, still looking for help Heavy goods
"Death is a scheme of Nature against Likdan Khan, they trana-days of sometimes even more. Fasti ferred their allegiance to the Man- camels for travellers take 70 days, for making room for the young. chas. In 1833 the Manchus defeat or if you are willing to pay for suppose that if man conquers ed Likdan Khan and broke the camels killed, 50 days. Many years death he will by that time cease! power of the Chabars-one of the axo, however, this man, or a mat-to grow old and retain the vigour last resurgences of the old Mongolter of urgency, covered the distance of youth."
It has been the custom for some sprit. The next year, being secure in 27, days, travelling with three
the scholar from attack from without, and to camels, which he rode in turn, and years past to scorn
travelling all alone. The record in and laud the athlete, but a census their power.
He of men who in their time at Amer-i within their borders, they dethron-likely to stand for all time. ed the prime of the Tumeta on the is over 70 now, but can still shout ican universities were studious score of his former Russian con-orders in his office as if he were rather than athletic," shows that! to good nection and reorganised the Tumets disposing a enmp in the desert. scholarship as a means
health and ultimate longevity has He has not been back to his birth- been misjudged. The-book-worm The Starting, Point.
place in Hami for a generation, may be the first of the immortals. For generations Kuahua has but still loves to speak of its, Statistics from insurance com- celebrated as. the starting glories, the easy life, the plentiful pantes and medical officers of point and journey's end of the food "and above all the melons. In health point to the fact that "men caravans that trade into the Far the days when Emperors did things and women are living longer. | West and what better name could in the right way and damned the "Science will undoubtedly be found for such a town than the expense, which was borne by their lengthen life, but there is no in- Blue City! The caravans travel subjects, an annual tribute of dication that it will find the way atross grassland and gruvel desert melons was sent from Ham, to to immortality," said Sir Arbuth te Uliassutab under the slopes. Peking, carried for more than 2,000 not Lane to a "Daily Express" the Altai or Golden Mountains in miles on camels, and delivered in representative. "It is an optimis- Outer Mongolia: to the little faultless condition. The despatch tic doctrine to believe that if isolated Mongol principality of of the melon caravan was the great science did find the way to im Alashan in Inner Mongolia, and to event of the year. The melons mortality mankind would retain Barkul and Kuchengtze on the were given an Imperial send off its youthful vigour, Benidel borders of Sinklang. Those cara-the populace were on holiday and would immortality be altogether vans that travel te Kuchengtze by the expenditure of firecrackers ex-worth while? the Winding Road, as it is called, ceeded that of the New Year. That problem... through Inner Mongolia. carry spectacle I suppose no foreigner almost the only men "who ever ace ever witnessed, nor will it ever that "fest" community, the Etsingel occur again.
been
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That is the real
CREMATION.
ADVOCATED BY KING'S PHYSICIAN.
old" Torguts, who live along a
Author's Note: The remarks in little river that rises in the desert this and the preceding article on and disappears in the desert, and the history of the Mongols, are on whose banka was once, the city based on an article by the late! of Etsinu, described by Marco Polo, C. Binsteed. Lieutenant, Essex
Back to Kueihua the caravans Regiment, on "The Tribal and Ad- The varicus sections of the" an- bring wool and skins from Outerministrative System of Mongolia."nual congress of the Royal Sanitary Mongolia, and wool, skins and cot It appeared in "The Far Eastern Institute were in session on July 7. ton from Sinkiang-long-staple Review" (Shanghai and Manila) some at the Mansion House and cotton, grown from American" seed July. 1918, Lieutenant Binsteed
hai markets.
some at the Central Hall, West- minater. While the arrangements for individual sections are ample and excellent, this rather, wide' dis- persion of the meetings in some what Inconvenient to members, who have sometimes to hurry from one section to another."
At the Mansion House the Mayor
Westminster presided over the
in the hot oasis of Turfan. The was killed in the War. casis Res below sea-level, and in the summer the people have to live still lower. It is so hot that they cannot emerge from their cellars!
PROBLEM OF UNFIT. during the day. Cotton-growing in Central Asia is a fruit of Rus
Paris. July 3.--The International sian enterprise and encouragement Eugenien Federation is at present before the war. After all the long holding a conference in Paris. The journey acrosa. Mongolia by camel. opening meeting, which was conference of representatives of by rall from Kueihua and byvate, waa, presided over by Major) steamer from Tientsin, it competes Darwin, non of the great natural-sanitary authorities in the absence with American cotton in the Shang-ist, the other British delegate being of Sir William Pryke, Lord Mayor Sir Benard Mallet, France, Holland, of London. und Sir Thomas Horder. But among the merchandise list Belgium, and Norway were among Bart., physician to the King, opened
a discussion on cremation. ed by stald custom-house officials the countries represented. as "aunday imports' are ranked the Among the questions which will urged the importance of education namen mont consonant with the Le discussed by the conference are of public opinion on this question. caravan trade and most reminiscent those of obligatory celibacy for Cremation has been made legal, but of the accounts of "early travellers. mentally deficient and deformed it is not encouraged by the law. From Ulinssutai come horns of the perdone, the introduction of legisla- Cremation is still hampered by wapiti, the Asiatic elk, which are on requiring a health certifcute difficulties some of which are neces- worth T. 10 a catty in Kueihua before marriage, the advisability or Bary on medico-legal grounds, but and the Lord knows how much in the raverse of inter-marrying besuch difficulties should, he thought, the medicine shops of Peking and tweeb cousins, the question of be reduced to a minimum because Tientsin... I have never found out emigration, and immigration, as on sanitary grounds earth-burial precisely what nostrum com- Influencing the physical growth of was an abomination, and on econo-
mic grounds an extravagance. pounded from them, but some say 'race, and the care of children.
A series of public lectures will
it is a kuo yao, which wrapped in
a bundle and placed on any part be given in connection with the con-
of the body that hurts will relieve ferente.
pain. As the horna are worth no money except in the velvet, the elk are harassed most just in the breeding season, so, that they are rapidly being exterminated. An- other medicine, the demand for which is all more deadly to the elk, is made from the newly-formed' embryo-lu t'al. It is a sovereign specific, whether taken by man or woman. for childlessness. Strange- ly enough, the wapit seem to be hunted for this only in Manchuria. not In Outer Mongolia or the belt of forest country North-west of Kueihua where there are still elk to be found.
Raw Jade from Khotan.
From Hami and Turfan come INFANTS IN THE FAR EAST raisins and dried apricots,-frech grapes are a dollar a picul in Hami, nood especially careful watching, for from Khotan, inattention to one small detail or native servants are often careless, and Raw jade comen known to the Chinese of classical another may result in serious conse- times as Yu-Tlon, the Kingdom of quences.
Most of the ailments of babies and
Tablets have been
He
The main factor in retarding cremation was a false sentiment, which could only be removed by education and experience. Nothing| could be more morbid and depress- ing than the ordinary cemetery, but there were already in existence "Gardens of Remembrance" where the ashes of the dead could be deposited under circumstances that appealed alike to religious and artistic feelings.
OPALS NOT " UNLUCKY."
The opal is becoming one of the most popular gema in London. Women, who have always been superstitious about opala, are now buying them in great numbers, The old tradition that epals bring ad luck to the wearer appears to have vanished.
"I am selling more ofials than other gems," said a leading London jeweller to a "Daily Express" re presentative. "Women customers
Jade. If you are friendly with the little, children arise from disordered, curio dealers of Peking you can see stomach or bowels, and it is to speedily who formerly would not accept an that raw jade piled at the back of met such troubles right that Baby's opal as a gift, are now buying them their shops, where it looks as Own Coarse as flint but is said to have come from Imperial stocks in the palace. In rooms to which the
tourist does not penetrate are craftsmen working with lathes and
devised. in preference to diamonds and
pearls."
Baby's Own Tablets
The opal was given its bad name by the Rabbi Benoni in the four- teenth century. For 600 years it has been regarded as a stone with curse, fatal to love, and sowing
modern diamond drills, turning out The first action of the Tablets, ia
gently cleansing. Then they set the ciscord between giver and receiver. the beautiful work, worthy of thation right, stop colic and vomiting,
old masters, which graces many
an American home as Han Jade check diarrhoes if present, rolleve
croop or colde. Almost as it by mugle
from the Forbidden City--or some they alleviate teething pains. Worme
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