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1926 A TIGER YEAR,
FAMILY LIFE IS PASSING.
[BY ELLE HEPWORTH DIRON)
I recently beard an Edwardian com placently tell some foreigners in Vienna that English family life" was like no other in the world.
In the Chinese zodiac, still carefully noted in fapan (ays a writer in the Japan Chronicle), 1956 is a Tiger year, and the shops are coded with picture, postcards bearing all kinds of tigers comic, realistic, and artistic-sometimės
And, indeed, it is not, though not in Aut the Japanese the sense which the speaker intended to all three at once. artist knows the tiger only front convey. For as a matter of fact English hearsay. He is A Esursome beast family life disappeared with the adoption with an extensive habitat, and it of the flas, and nothing seems likely to could not be from merely being insular resuscitate it. that Japan escaped tigers, like Ireland escaped snakes, for he is found in Java,
This disintegration had begun before the war, which helped to complete the delier. Mathers and daughters alike missions; the bors were awept into the
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either, swims over every night or hides in some hitherto undiscovered recess on the island. Westwards the tiger may snap up the unwary on the Euphrates; castwards he will slay a Korean village or cause an international incident in Saghalien: and the Siberian railway knows him along much of its length; but though known pretty far up into the Himlayas, he shuns the great central Asian plateau The indian peninsula is his special home, and the Bengal tiger" is the legendary incarnation of ferocity.
India, of course, is full of tiger stories. There was the old man-eater in the Calcutta zoo, to whom they gave a tough old fighting ram one day for a special treat, but who was butted to death by this active and ferocious sheep. And there was the famous case of the country station-master who telegraphed to his headquarters at Madras, Tiger in possession of platform; besieged in ollice; please wire instructions There is the adventurous sport of going after tiger through the jungle, and sometimes having to bring down the beast when he is in the midst of a tremendous leap at his pursuer a form of hunting in which many a good man has been killed. There is also the distinguished traveller's liger, for whom beaters are mobilised by the thousand elephants by the dozer; and who, at the proper moment, is push ed out, dazed and doped, from the cover. that concealed him, right in front of the distinguished traveller's artillery.
selves in Atheus, in Seville, in' Baghilad, occupied in vague intelligence work
which took them away from home.
rew of those briten nowes have been gal, 10 vheir pristine auliuesa, of that they were au in every classy particularly in the evenings, na ong của
A distinguished Frence seriously deny. man has left in unforgettable account of & quiet visit to malbeid in the reign of the great bord Salisbury, and of that exceptionally clever woman his wire. arter linner, he records, there was absolutely none of that interchange of ideas which makes Parisian society so agreeable. Everyone, without exception, read the evening paper.
The entry of women into business and the Civil Service has naturally much to do with the passing of the once famous English family life. Where are those imposing homes which contained ten children and
an equal number
of
servants; the enormous dinner-parties, the weekly visit to the theare in winter, with at least half a dozen stalls duly booked
They simply do not exist. The girls are out working, the boys are in the Dominions How, then, can an honest Briton and his wife contrive to collect his progeny under. his own root-tree, or,, rather, in his exiguous fat? The thing is impossible. It is not that English people are really careless of family sins, but that they often liko each other better when they are apart. Often they have violent likes or dislikes, which would not be visiblo, say, in a French family, where, though they live in hordes, every- thing goes smoothly-on the surface and by dint of exercising a formidable courtesy. But in France the family is as sacred as it is in China-Daily Vail.
The tiger is quite ferocious enough for most people, hit it is rather the fashion in these days to describe him as inclined to be a coward. Small naked Indians have been known to drive him back into the jungle with the blow of a stick
the two, the tiger grows to the larger across his back; bat who can say that size, 300 lbs. being known-five hundred such a flight is not magnanimity? He pounds of impatience, and a large soft was quite ferocious enough for Lord aw which, in a playful pat without any George Sanger, the famous circus-owner, swing behind it, can kill a bull! It is who, when asked what steps he would
& fearsome beast indeed, and Mr. take if the tiger got out of his cage, Kipling makes us shudder vicariously promptly replied, "Damned long ones.
when he describes that savage cough of But these are all chestnuts of the most the tiger returning empty to his lair dried-up type. It is not quite so geacaiter a night's vain hunting. Yet bow rally known, however, that the jungle. much like a cat the tiger is in all his people sometimes catch the tiger with actions, basking in the sun, rolling birdlime; Anding his track, they spread luxuriously, and performing his toilet limed leaves over it; the great cat wipes even seeking his prey, he creeps up and off the first over his ear, the second,
pounces on a peacock exactly as cat third and fourth in the same way; they
pounces on a house-sparrow ! stick over his eyes, and annoy him, and at last he is rolling in the vile stuff and blinded by the leaves, a helpless victim.
T
The tiger resembles the cat even in the size of its litter, and in the curious jealousy of the husband, who sometimes slays his own offspring, apparently an Everybody knows the history of Sherc noyed at being neglected for their sake Khan, the tiger. When Mowgli," who by his wife. There is an Eastern' tale had a score to pay off, found him asleep about the bare saying to the tiger," with I bring in the, ravine, with the buffalo cows an air of conscious superiority, grazing with their calves on the plain up two of three litters every year, but below, he drove the bulls down theI am told that a tigress may have only raviné from above. Shere Khan, fleeing one or two cubs in a whole lifetime. for the open, sees the cows-and turns "It is true," replied the tigress, "that
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to death. Which shows that the tiger have but one in my whole life, but that considers that the female of the species one is a tiger!'
is more deadly than the male. Buffaloes,' however, have a special antipathy for the tiger, and it is said that if half a dozen of them are together, and a tiger comes along, they will attack him with the utmost fury.
The poets have not been specially prone to discuss the tiger. In the famous speech before Agincourt, King Henry the Filth sys:
of war blows in
action of the tiger;:
summon up the
But when the blast
our ears, Then imitate Stiffen the
blood.
the
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And there is a passing reference to the borrific aspect of the tiger in Macbeth adjuration to the ghost:
Approach thou like the rugged Rus-
sian bear,
The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan
tiger,
Take any shape but that, and my frai
nerves.
Shall never tremble.
Blake is so familiar that one hardly dare quoté bis-
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night, What immortal hand and rye Framed thy fearful symmetry
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
And it was Tennyson who, turning evolu tion into moral maxims, taught us to look upward, "working out the brute, and let the ape and tiger die."
The naturalists tell us that there is very little difference between the lion and the tigeran absence of mine and tailtuft, and stripes instead of a plain. dun-these, with minute skeletal differ- ences, make the whole distinction. Of (Continued on next column).
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