What made the Shakers shake?
HEAVENS ON EARTH. By Mark Holloway. (Turnstile: 161; 240 page1.)
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1951. -
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
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Inter 'experiments In
Fourier, Communism. Frenchman. was responsible for most of these. One of the Inter Shaker
He was a prim old bachelor prophets, a man named Noyes, pointed out in the 1830's thai, who lost all his fortune in the had French Revolution, and hoped if the Day of Judgment
was le crente a society in which
not would occurred then dammation
to revolutions This proved unnecessary.
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PEOPLE
THE PROFESSOR
TAKES ON
A HEAVYWEIGHT
Pubileation this month of volume weighing 2b. 11oz, AMONG the thousands of so the
with signal the end of a tor-
undertaken Europeans who poured 300 of them left.
midable task
by Professor Peter into the New World not so Smoking banned
68-year-old Alexander, of Glasgow Univer. long after its discovery,
alty there were some,
It was
pub- In 1944 that really minority, who were
lishers commissioned Professor looking for the Next World.
Alexander to prepare a new, the
take one-volume edition of Shake- thai They thought
discrepan- marriage,
by Millennium had taken place, be a popular doctrine and led place. He proposed to abolish speare, eliminating
and cles discovered
experta at any to the founding of the Oneida property and or would do so
man since the issuing of the Col- in
York hoped that some New the Community
Hein complete Shakespeare lo well would finance his dream. moment. So out to
State, where women as
advertisements even put
in 1855. ns men wore trousers and
For the announcing Newspapers west they sailed, in boats Stu
professor, getting! be ut home ready this new Shokespeare of every size with ereeds of system of "complex marriage the
Le, men and that he would was pinctis:d.
for press meant reading every shape.
freely cohabit every day at a certain hour to women could
any philanthropist who wished million words involved
tunes. within, the community. were There
It any two persons showed to call on him. Inspira- Ephratans, Shakers,
a selfish attachment ong tionists, Icarions, Rappites and another they were brought to criticism," dozens of other earnest seets. reason by "mutual
their another
public The Ephratans brought
their opinion, and telescopes,
spent
the heavens tor signs of the Millenniumi.
nights studying
Labisia,
They
The Shakers did not trouble about that because they knew of Judgment that the Day had already happened.
curious and interesting were offshoot of the Quaker move. meat and were founded by a
word for
to
As one of the Oneida songs puts it:
"We have built us a dome
On our beautiful planta-
tion,
Path to perfection
Several Fourier "phalanxes"
America were clublished in Lucking the business sense of the religious communities, they have not survived. other hand it can be said when prosperity came to seets, as it often did on
their energy count fangality, corruption came with
of
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Agatha teris, And one family relation."
Christie,
S. Forester, It was only too frue,
James Hadley Chase. Oncidu In this respect the
These American Utopios urn
theatre producer At 12, Peter group broke the pattern of the an odd chapter in the history
of Peter Coles started amassing: Manchester woman Ann Lee, millennis! societies which were of mankind.
totalitarian
and the sympathetic and entertain-sc.obcokes on our most cele who migrated to America after Curamunist,
Cockney Chartea Some, in study believes that we brated the Church of England had in favour of celibacy.
odded may
further have
Chaplin. Ile has used them tu Ephratans,
yet tried her for blasphemy-like
same kind. make a biography titled "The the periments of the
Fellow.
Coles นคร charge which she rebutted tu tectolalism, others
seck Little But those who her of
abudist leader Peter Sluyter. Maybe. Jul- the sallstuetkin
Chaplin, but -need no never met smoking perfection on earth delivered put a
intimately lowers in speech
was held against Sluyter that longer sail to America and be know him i72 different languages, some
afar." sold and {rew himself
disappointed. of which have not been heard he
Jon Hope tabacco). before or since..
make
Celibates only
like
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celibacy caster, the
men Epliratan patriarchial beards and
Won:
the
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kish tonsures; the women eut their hair short and made their faces as unattructive as
Each individual sible.
weekly paper confessing his sins. It was a great blow
when the Ephratans
mon-
pop- wrote
one
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What was it made
shake For shake? Shakers
did. certainly
besides they dancing and whirling like der vishes. It was apparently essential part of the
Satan-It helped against
keep at bay the abomination of the flesh. Besides, it was very
Everybody enjoyable
who
saw the Shakers in one of a
corybantic rituals agrees the Shakers liked it.
thut
their lenders showed an undu solicitude for the sisters, un- attractive as they were.
Bachelor colony
Tect
rell-
The Rappites, 3 Genoch who believed fa the For the rest, they were an industrious, queer-Hiving people Second Coming and made ex- dwelling In their communities cellent whisky, have not work! Englund states, so well as the Inspirationists, In the New and obeying a stern discipline also a German sect of
stil! who that, among other things, teld glous communists
arc puclfisis, them which foot to put first on flourish. They
wometi regarding they woke but while the ground when
mag- "us a highly dangerous of a morning.
mar. net," grudgingly permit ringe. The Inspirationists are now a well-to-do co-operative cociety.
More important, it insisted on celibacy; so married people, converted to the seet, had to separate. It was a severe rule and one of the reason's why the Shakers are now in
de
the sellle- On the whole, ments with a religious inspira- tion proved sturdier than the
The author
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-London Express Service)
HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT...
-THIS
DREAM
YOU SAW A LOT
"I from
OF PEOPLE HELPLESS WITH LAUGHTER-
MEANS :
This is the sort of dream that follows a dream: a dream of relief that a problem hos boon solved.
A dream is generally an attempt to solve A conflict is a one of the conflicts of the day. struggle between a wish and a fear of the
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
MY GOOD MAN, CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO GET TO STONY RUNS
*RECKON
TKINK "C
CAND THEN HE
CLAMS UP
TIGHT
"ED....THE BAG!"
Edke (4)
ACROSS
4 Seares thoughty (7)
Anal (4)
B
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Blem 14)
10 Shaped (7)
12, 11 sloge 14
1 Conceited 14
14 Trying out (7)
17 Grown-up (5)
A Untrue (5)
22 Avolding (7)
Spare (4)
28 Gel (7)
DO
27 Wickedness
(4)
King of punt (43
30 Accurate (4),
at Persevere (7)
32 Profound (4)
Begister (0)
Wander (0)
Send (3)
Made reparation (6)
FITU (5}
7. Pure (57.
12 Enadurned 14).
13 Emanation (15)
15 Lary (4
in Vate 14)
18 Wards alr (6)
24 Joined' 10:
truny (4)
93 Murgia (5)
Burses (5)
25 Turu inside out (5)
YESTERDAY'S. CROSSWORD ACROSS; 1 Sentum, 0 Diape, & Erie, 11 Modern, 13 Tense, 10 D- Carmurs, tu Label, 11 Steud..12 Mail. Luated, 20 Ewers, 22 Tul), 23 Astir, 25 Vista, 28 Downed, 27 Ogres, 28 Stare, 20 Defend. own: 1 Sycanime, Horrible, 3 Suas, 4 Meniton. 5 Dilated, & Render, 7 Press, 14 Announce, 13 Exploded, 16 Massege, 17 Decided. 19 Orator, 21 Whist, 24 tier.
AND THAT THEN YOU WOKE ROARING WITH LAUGHTER ?
consequences of satisfying that wish. Ofton the dream is able to crystallise a solution of the conflict in symbolic form: it is able to point a way to satisfying, or modifying the wish-and without the feared consequences.
Evidently the dreamer has had one of theso enlightening problem-solving dreams. Laughter always comas with a sudden intense relief of emotional tension.
Touring Tips
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The simpleat of props can, be made Into clever table-top scenes.
TABLE-TOP PICTURES
IF BAD weather keeps your
limited.
Your table-top scene should,
sim-
to be
ne of course. tell a story. It could outdoor snapshooling tivities
how about be virtually anything-running having a go at some table-top to humour, fantasy, or even to sheer realism in miniature form. plctures? All you need are a few But remember to have it mean props that you can find around something. The idea is really the
ot bit the house plus
thing in these table- insportant taps. Your sat doesn't have to imagination on your part.
be complicated. In fact, Tabic-tops, as you know, are plicily, such as in the illustra merely miniature scenes created ion above, is definitely from toys, or models, or dolls desired. or anything else that might lend
Ordinarily, if your camera liself to the purpose. Salt or doesn't focus down to the closer baking soda, for example, makes
you should have a distances, very realistic looking snow. bit of carpet will look like grass, close-up attachment over your and coatse sand can be used lens. Your Agures will be amall and, to capture them most for small pobbles, The figures in effectively, your camera should your set can be toys, or char-e aclers that you have created trom pipe cleaners, modelling clay, or what-have-you.
be as close as possible, Your ex- can be a simple time posure exposure. of course, and you can light your set with regular household lamps. If you use 60-watt lamps fairly
WIL run about one or two
When you assemble your as several sorled props, belter watch scale
a bit carefully. You'll want the close to your set, your exposure figures to be proportionate In size to each other and to the minutes at a medium lens aper- other props in your set. They may appear a bit otherwise.
Just plain cardboard
incongruous
ture, around f/8..'
Why don't you have a. try at some table-tops soon? You run the whole show, you know.
For backgrounds you can use. You're the set designar, slage
look like manager,
electrician, director the last but not least,
sky, or you could try a tapes and,
try, a framed picture, or even camera man in this big produc-
an enlargement of one of your ilon. own pletures. By proper place- lot of fun. ment they can be made to look very convincing.
Bu
You can really have
-John van Guilder
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