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OVER 1,000 Feet of Interesting Scenes The story commences at the period when the young Princess Marie Antoinette came from the Court of Vienas to become the wife of the Dauphin of France. It shows how her Husband's in- difference induced her life to gaiety and extravag-
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How her domestic affections were aroused" by the illness of her eldest son: her devotion and courage when the King and his family » were made prisoners aud concludes with her trial and death on the scaffold:
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CHINESE: COOLIE SONGS.
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[BY NEVILLE WHYMANT]
The Chinese coolie presents the key to the problem of the Chinesa. YAKO.
"John Chinaman" is notoriously enigmatic, but contrary to general opinion he is far from being beyond analysis. He is human, and yet appears wonderfully detached from everything save his own soul. He is wiso in his illiteracy, which is often mistaken for general ignorance, while his sympathy and friendship are strong enough to stand any strain. And because he is such a paradox he has been. sadly mis-
His judgekl
peculiar characteristics have been distorted into queer vices, but through it all he goes merrily singing on his way.
**
The Chinese paychology, is strongly akin to that of the Englishman. Many comparisons have been made between Japan, the Island-Empire of the Far East, and the British Isles, but experie Chinese and British psych-1
shows these to be
ology, however, are fundamentally allied, and the internal history of both races will give the reason. In no instance is this sympathy morn clearly seen than in an examination of the working classes and their outlook on life. The fact that Chinese coolie sings his scraps of wis dom, while the British navy or artisan merely spits them
cut in forcible language, does not alter the same. The coolie's speech, whether in ordinary "talk or song, ia invariably adequate to the occasion. As an expression of mild dis gust at things unfitted--
A monkey plays the banjo, What music do you call that↑ might appeal-with variations according to temperament-to a navvy at the docks in London as strongly as to a coolie labouring under a tropical sun. The East End of London is not very far away from the back streets of Cantou: →
First wo quarreled and then we fought,
I hated her, she hated me;
But that was hate just one inch long, Next day we were in love again.
METAPHOR.
Metaphor plays a very important role in Chinese speech, and the coolie has pressed a füll measure into his workaday ejaculations. It is more than strange to Eear from the unmelodious, untutored lips of the coolie a beautiful metaphor
lore. I once heard a coolic who had been severely criticized burst out with:-
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Mountains through the falling rain. Smoke through the snow.
He certainly could never have read the words, for he did not recognize even the character "one". as the Chinese pro- verb has it, but he knew their applica tion Long ago a famous artist who had become successful was advised to be more critical in His dealings with ambitious students. He, however, repudiated the extreme severity in criticism which was the fashion of his day, and retorted:-
Mountains through the falling rain, Smoke through the snow. These are difficult things to draw. When well done they please the.eye. Badly done they give offence.
. How easy to look upon such things.
But how difficult to cxccute! *** It would be extremely difficult to dis cover how much ancient wisdom of his race the Chinese coolie carries in his head. He seems to be a never-failing spring with a song blunt, coarse, de licate, piquant, amusing, according to the occasion. And owing to the fact that the coolie speaks his own patois it is im- possible to write down in Chinese char acters the text of his songs. Perhaps it is not generally known that the Chinese script is considered sacred, 'one character is worth more than a thousand pieces of gold, this on the authority of an old Emperor of China, and that such con- sideration has made it purely a literary vehicle. Nothing short of a masterpiece is worthy to be enshrined in such hoblo symbols. Thus there are no coolic-song sathologies in China; one must learn from the lips of the coolies and fight one's way through archais reference or his torical glorification of nonentities, and study s fantastic symbolism. Luckily, however, a large number of the song present no difficulty. When 2 coolie wants to borrow a tool from his, neight bour, for example, he says:
Your chopping-knife. And my whetstone.
Each man should know his limita
tions."
Gambling is the ruling passion of the leisure hour from the mandarin to the coolic. So the coole who has lost the fruit of his Inbour cries oht on his home- ward way:-
I am without a single cash. No coin have I nor yet a hope, My case is that of a tired sparrow Crossing a wide sea.”
LOVE OF HOME.
The Chinese has his Lares and Fenates. and they are to him very real. Chief of all is the kitchen-god, and a little abrine is in every kitchen. When a disaster comes, and a fire or flood wipes out a dis- trict, the homeless ones wander about
veless ones wan wailing:
**The kitchen-god has gone to Heaven
And there's no place to live."
Adequate sprinkling of
of proverbs. It is quíta possible in a Chinese market-place to hear a conversation, between two mar- chant into which no word of business seems to enter and yet a deal is conclud- ed and a bargain struck By proverbial suggestion one may discuss almost any subject quite openly in China. It is merely necessary to use the words ' Wang Hua's luck to convey a complete his torial incident to a Chinese mind, at the same time giving a delicate reproof. And that most proverbs elliptic condensations of coolie sonts is an undoubted fact, one instance of which will appear from examination of the example I have quoted. A coolie whe was weary and unwell, while still, far from the end of his task, spurred himself on by singingi-
rice,
io China
#TO
You better work and strive for
It won't rain down upon your head. There was but one piece of Inck. in the world-
#
Wang Hun had that and he's long dead.
You can't do better than I'advise. It's work, not luck, that makes man wise.
Asking about Wang Eua. I endured a long recital, out of which emerged the essential fact that the boy was a common- er who by his innate piety and devotion to daly earned the approbation of an Emperor even to the extent of succeeding him on his demise,
China has had her artists starving in garrets, also the art poseurs one knows so well. The coolie is eminently practi- | cal, there is no room in his, psychology for feeding upon Art.
I saw a picture the other day. With geese and flowering trees and a
прод
But still ate my bowl of rice! When the ears burn people are dis- cussing you has its counterpart with the Chinese coolie:-
My eyes twitch so, I cannot see, And now my eyebrows have grown long
To conclude, one may again emphasize the human note. The harassed husband declares the whole world kiu while re hieving his feelings?
Al me alackaday!
My feet are sore, my head is bruised, Ihad an awful night.
Who can hope for domestic peace ? Even a skilful housewife.
Cannot manage four children' Essentially practical, and full of caustic wit directed against the man, who is merely a dreamer, the coolie has his moments of deep feeling. Absence from home stirs him always to his best efforts.
I raise my eyes and see the moon. I let them fall, and think of home. Not once, nor merely a dozen times, have I heard a coolie sing these words of the divine Li Po.—P. and T. Timte- -
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