CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
INDIFFERENCE TO COMFORT AND - CONVENIENCE
I.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1889.
Light-dress; but it is at all events certain that broken-down prophets. Some little, indeed, k
(To be continued),
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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
minister's churchwarden of such cast-iron probity as to be safely trusted with untold maneys on uncounted collection plates; his grandaires may have been decent, but some where in the murky past, shrouded now by the black pall of the oblivion that covers the just and the unjust alike, thered ank, lied, 'stole, and killed when free, crouched, mouthed, and writhed heneath the prison whip, or fiercely shook the prison chains when captive-a something that' might have been a devil or an ape, but was a Telonious man or woman-the ancestor of the modern criminal, in his or her turn the offshoot of older criminál stock.
What says
Have
This is what science affirms. society? Society is loftily indifferent. we not, it asks in effect, police, judges, prisons? Are there not men in high positions who have fevoted years to ascertaining the precise weight. to a grain of the meat, fat, busgoo, and potatoca a criminal may ent; the size, shape, and hard ness of the bed he should lie on, the work he should do, and the bours, days, or years he should be caged, masked, and silent? What
more would you have?
modern Chinese do not imitate him in his robe, knows about the cause, much about the effect of ned do not fast if they can avoid it. Even new-riminality-but there for the present science horn babes, whose skins are exceedingly sensitive halts. The naturalist affirms that criminality. to the least changes of temperature, are carelessly like consumption and lunacy, is hereditary, that aid under the bed-clothes, which are thrown in fact it is a species of lunacy; that the here. Back whenever the mother wishes to exhibit ditary criminal is precisely what society has In what we have now to say, it must be pre: the infant to spectators. The sudden chill indirectly made him by its treatment of his mised at the outset, that all that is affirmed of which this absand practice occasions, is thought | Farbents, and directly, by its treatment of himself; Chinese indifference to comfort and convenience by competent judges to be quite sufficient to
that he is merely the apatheosis of centuries of respects not Oriental but Occidenti" standards,
account for the very large, number of Chinese the brutality of the ruling class, the natural issue the principal object being to show how totally who before completing, the first month of their of starvation, filth, the hulks, whippings at the different those standards nie. Let us first direct existence, die in convulsions. When children cart-tail, the convict ship bagnio, and the our attention for a moment to the Chinese dress. have grown larger, instead of being provided gallows. Had he an ancestral home and por- In speaking of Chinese contempt for foreigners, with diapers, they are in some regions clad in a trait gallery, then among his ancestors, near or we have already had occasion to mention that pair of bifurcated bags; partly filled with sand, remote, we should discern his archetype. The western modes of apparel bave very little which the mere idea of which is sufficient to fill the malefactor germ in the turbid blood of his race is attractive to the Chinese; we are now forced east of tender-hearted western mothers with may have lain dormant for generations; his to admit that the converse is equally true, To 10.10., Weighted with these strange equip nother may have been ear-marked a saint us it certainly appears singular that a great nationments, the poor thing is at first footed to one of the first water; his father may have been should become reconciled to such ab. unnatural spot, like the frog which was loaded with custom as shaving off the entire front part of uk shot. In the particular districts where the he leaving that exposed, which nature his custom prevails, it is common to speak of a evident intended should be protected. But prson who exhibits small practical knowledge, since the Chinese were driven to adopt
as one who has not yet been taken out of his this custom at the paint of the sword, and earth-trousers P-M. 'C, Daily News: since, as already remarked, it has become a sign and a test of loyalty, it need be no further noticed in this connection, than to call attention to the undoubted fact that the Chinese themselves do not recognise any discomfort from the practice, and would probably be exceedingly unwilling to revert to the Ming dynasty sure. The same
March gh, 1899 considerations do not apply to the Chinese habit of going bareheaded at almost all seasons of the
This is the last overland courier mail, and as year, and especially in summer. The whole we learn that steamers arrived, in Tientsin on nation moves about in the blistering heats of the the 1st, our letters per last and present courier. summer months, holding one arm aloft, with an will reach much sooner than the previous ones, open fan held at such an angle as to obstruct a vid Chinkiang. For several days the weather portion of the rays of the sun.. Those who at has been unusually mild, and the ice began to any part of their lives hold an umbrella in their look as if it might break at any moment, Yes- hands to ward off heat, must constitute butterday and to-day the wind has been from the a most insignificant fraction of the popula north and is blowing with tremendous force tion. While men do aften wear hats upon There is an attempt at snow, but it is completely certain provocation, Chinese women, so far
overawed by the dust which from its peculiar as we have observed, have no other kind of colour, must have come all the way from the head-dress than that which, however great its plains of Mongolia. The thermometer (Fahr.) failure viewed from. the unsympathetic Western from 32 deg, minimum yesterday, dropped to stand-point is intended to be ornamental. One 13 deg. this am. No doubt the river will be of the very few requisites for comfort; according open, in a few days, but it is not an advantage to to Chinese ideas, is a fan, that is to say, in the have the ice broken up too soon, as it will be season when it is possible to use such an ac floating up and down all the longer, and it will cessory to comfort. It is not uncommon in thee almost useless for, vessels to enter, for there summer to see coolies, almost or quite devoid of are no cargo-boats for landing or shipping. clothing, struggling to drag a heavy salt-junk | cargo, up, stream, vigorously fanning themselves mean- while. Even beggars frequently brandish broken fans. It is one of the unaccountable phenomena of Chinese civilisation, that this people which is supposed to have been originally pastoral, and which certainly shows a high degree of ingenuity in making use of the gifts of nature, has never learned to weave wool in such a way as to employ it as clothing. It is believed that in ancient times belate cotton was introduced, garments were made of some other vegetable fibres, such as rushes. However this may be, it is certain that the nationas a whole is at present absolutely dependant upon cotton, In those parts of the empire where the winter cold is severe, the people wear an amount of wadded clothing almost sufficient to double the bulk of their bodies. A child clad in this costume, if he happens to fall down, is often utterly unable to rise, as if he had been strapped into a cask. Of the discomfort of such clumsy dress, we never hear the Chinese complain. The discomfort is in the want of it. It is certain, however, that no Anglo-Saxon would willingly tolerate the disabilities of such an attire, if he could by any possibility be relieved of it. In connec tion with the heavy clothing of winter, must be mentioned the total lack of any kind of under-clothing. To us it seems difficult to support existence without woollen under garments frequently changed. The Chinese are
conscious of no such need. Their burdensome wadded clothes hang around their bodies like so many bags, leaving yawning spaces through -which the cold penetrates to the flesh, but they do not mind this circumstance, although ready to admit that it is not ideal. Chinese shoes até
made of cloth, and are always porous, absorbing moisture fue these les cried the time keeps the feet more or less chilled all the time, whenever the weather is cold. The Chiness have, indeed, a kind of oiled boots which are designed to keep out the dampness, but like mary other conveniences, the use of them on account of the expense, is restricted to a very few. The same is true of um brellas as a protection against rain. They are luxuries, and are by no means garded as neceishies. Chinese who are obliged to be exposed to the weather do not as a rule think it important, certainly not necessary, to change their clothes when they have become thoroughly
wet, and do not seem to find the inconvenience
Several missionaries have returned from dis- tributing, the funds of the Relief Commillee and report that the distress has not been exaggerated. Much good has been done and thousands of natives who otherwise must have died of starv- ation are being kept alive, but unfortunately the matter does not end with winter and there are many points to consider in regard to helping the Chinese. did toi, et le ciel t'aidera does not enter into the thoughts of these poor people. They are patient, phlegmatic, indifferent, or whatever the quality may be, which enables them to bear pain, trouble and injustice, a tenth part of which would breed a revolution. in western lands-but self-help, except for the moment, they don't understand. So in a bappy-go-lucky sort of mind they feel that they will be fed somehow or other. If not, well, it cannot be helped! Can we let thera starve after keeping them through the winter? What are they, to do? They have no land or houses to speak of. No seed for the future harvest. The animals that helped to til the ground are dead from starvation, or have ben killed for human food, Where in the labour to come from to plough and manure the fields ? A grand problem for the Celestial Goverment ! Easily solved! Build a railway from Moakden to the Yangtze, or to Peking, or Kirin, or anywhere, but build a railway. It will pay, and meanshile keep thousands alive, and enrich China 1-N. C. Daily News.
THE HEREDITARY. CRIMINAL.
old familiar
In the police court at Wellington (N.Z.), the other day, Kate Moore, a wild, red-headed malden aged 17 years, recorded her 34th infraction of the statutes of her native land, and for, the hundred-thousandth time the representatives of the law as made and provided by the legal system of an alleged civilised land acknowledged that all their elaborate machinery was a failure, and that they did not know what on earth to do next. The prisoner, it was stated in evidence, had commenced infracting the law at the early age of 17, and ever since she had only been released from gaol to break the head of the first available citizen, or to commit some other act of violence or language, and then go back to bex quarters. During her brief career she had concussed against every prison regula- lion in the land, and had come off best, and she of allowing their garments to dry upon them, at had tried every imaginable form of prison discip all a serious one. While the Chinese admire line, and had professed to be rather pleased foreign gloves, they have none of their own, and
than otherwise with the experiment. She had while clumsy miltens are not unknown, even in the extreme north they are rarely seen.
harassed every magistrate with whom she came One of
in contact, and worried every gaoler, and broken the most annoying characteristics of Chinese
every bye-law and statue and Act of Parliament costume, as seen from the foreign standpoint, is that had come under her notice, and, after a ten- the absence of pockets. The average westerner
years contest, with this one red-headed girl of requires a great number of these to meet his needs. He demands breast pockets in his 27, the whole legal system of the colony stood costs for his memorandum books, pockets an acknowledged failure and a fraud of the first behind for his handkerchiefs, pockets
magnitude, in his vest for pencil, tooth-pick, etc., as well as
· It is the old problem of hereditary criminality for his watch, and in other accessible positions of her gaol experiences, this particular prisoner over again. Sometime, no doubt, in the intervals for the accommodation of his pocket knife, his will find time to marry, and a family will be born bunch of keys, and his wallet. If the foreigner and reared in various prisons and penitentiaries is also provided whh a pocket comb, a folding which will prove a fearfully expensive and foot rule, a corkscrew, a boot-buttoner, a pair of disastrous responsibility for their native country. tweezer, a minute compass, a folding pair of Mrs. Cooper, a benevolent San Franciscan, in a scissors, a pinhall, a pocket mirror and fountain pen, it will not mark him out as a singular excep Pacific Coast, gives a few statistics which serve paper read before the Prison Convention of the tion to his race. Having become accustomed to the constant we of these articles, he cannot
to foreshadow what that household will be like: dispense with them. The Chinese on the other county in New York State share bad coma antorious stock of It appears list - from a sing'e neglected child la a wealthy hand, has few or none of such things; if he were, | criminala, vagabonda, and pupers, Imperiil ag every dollar's presented with them, he would not know where
worth of property in the commanby, Not lers 1540 1859 persons
to
has been traced as the Uncage of six children who wa bora of put them. If he has a handkerchief, it is this one perverted and depraved woman,"
Not much, perhaps. Yet, meanwhile, the hereditary criminal continues to exist, to marry, or procreate unblessed by priest and uncertifi cated by law. And society looks en and concludes that this part of the question is none of its business. When the new generation has grown up society imprisons them and in prison they graduate and perfect in crime; socicly teaches them religion and they add hypocrisy, lo their vices. Finally, when society, as often si not hangs them, it has proved unhing and rid itself of nothing; it has merely branded the children with the stigma of their parents' shame and thereby surely perpetuated the criminal class, Our judges, viewing criminality from a case-hardened professional standpoint, and through a liaze of horsehair and wool, have one remedy only-penal servitude; penal servitude for so years, for life-more penal servitude. Our prison inspectors, even in their wildest
formatory nightmares, never soar beyond "diet" and "solitary," while our prison chap, Jeins seck to regenerate human jackals and wolves by sloshy "advice" and tracts at "6d.
per gross to the trade."
So, year in, and year out, the old farce of bute force versus vice goes on, and crime, spite of all the modern tinkering of shiny. headed doctrinaires, decreases only in official statistics. It has become perhaps slightly more intelligent and studies how to work within the pale of the law, but that is all. The man whose ancestora were foolpads often substitutes bank- ruptcy for highway robbery, or safely thieves from the widow and orphan under the very gir of the law, or maybe runs a swindling syndicale.. Yet, despite some changes in criminal modes there is still a gigantic host of sworn enemies to decency, sobriety, honesty, and society, which for them consists of "coppers," "beaks," judges, and warders. Society, save when it makes its living by them, ignores its outcasts. But how much longer, let us ask, can society afford to ignore the grim and shadowy multitude of here. ditary moral lepers crouching in corners, courts, and footid byeways-ready to spring? Ready aye, thirsting to lave its shrunken limbs in the blood of its enery, society; even as the gaunt. and terrible viragos of France bathed in blood nigh a century ago.
Silently but swiftly the time approaches when society must think about this problem-muat not only think, but act.
Science must leave awhile the glorious wonders of astronomy, electricity, and the like, and take a scientific glance at the bereditary criminal. It must do more. It must bring to the study of him and his disease the same wondrous gifts of patient observation, research, and logical reasoning, and the same bold precision in experiment that it brings to the study of the stars, or the hidden
forces of nature. In other branches science has done wonders, but in this one direction the world stands very much where it did in the days when it believed in "rain-makers" and magicians, and beat tom-toms and blew trumpets to scale away comets and other celestial phenomena. Yet, after thousands of years of criminal coercion and repression-what has been gained?
But should science decide at last that there is no remedy for crime, and that it is impossible to minister to a mind diseased, then let the law attack the evil at the rock, and let it be logical for once in its long career of dreary and illogical Bumbledom and foolishness. For if the heredi- the criminal code, of the Church, and of the tary criminal is incurable-if all the resources of colleges are of no avail, and if it is his fate to be a criminal to the end of his days, and to rear a race of criminals who, in their tum, will pass the moral poison on to their descendants then it
were more merciful to him, to his unborn children, sa subtle yet so strong that it would carry bim and to the world to give him a sniff of something
straight and painlessly to Nurvica, or, it may be,
kinder because wiser, wiser because more in to some other existence, where "society
accord with Nature's external laws-knows how'
to extract the criminal venom by means other than the stupid, brutish prison and wasteful
thrust into his bosom, and so also is a child which The criminal mother's fate we may make a gallows-tree-Sydney Bulletin. he may have to carry around. If he has a paper guess at, but judging from the foregoing state-
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of some importance be carefully unties the strapment, what will be the fate of the criminal which confines his trousers to his ancle, insert mother's offspring? the paper, and gres on his way. If bo wears outside drawers, he simply tucks in the paper without untying anything. In either case, if the band loosens without his knowledge, the piper is lost-a constant occurrence. Other depositasies of such articles are the folds of the lung derves when turned back, the crown of turned-up hat, or the space between the cap and the head. Many Chinese make a practice of ensuring a convenient, although somewhat exiguous supply of ready money, by always icking a cash in ore ear. The main dependance for security of articles carried is the girdle, to which a small puree, the tobacco puch and pipe, and similar objects are attached. If the gudle works loose; the articles are liable to be Ist. Keys, moustache combs, and a few ancient Cash, are attached to some prominent button of the jacket, and each removal of this garment involves care-inking to prevent the loss of the appendages.
Before the hereditary criminal of civilisation the prison disciplinarian-with bie Bumble-like logic, his sawdust theories of punitive treatment, his shorter catechism of so much bread and water, sakum picking, and hard-labour, and his longer ca echism of so much "solitary"-stands aghast, knowing, if not confessing, that his THE Steamship scheme of treating criminal human nature as if
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it were a boil to be poulticed into health by a Captain R. Kühler, will be despatched for the spoonful more or less' of skilly, is one of the above Port, on SATURDAY, the 30th instant, dreariest and baldest of the myriad bald and dreary Gascoes ofofficialdord. That the hereditary at 4 PM. criminal should confound the prison disciplinarian is neither matter of wonder nor importance, for he is nearly always a hopeless, cut-and-dried variety of military Ass with the largest sort of A. Neither is it of much consequence that he or she should badle the professional philanthropist--the tame prig with the tracts, the goleshes, and the subscription-list, who is perpetually organising some new society, and appointing a secretary and If the daily dress of the ordinary Chinese seems president, and opening a set of books by doublo t› usobjectionable, bin nocturnal costume is at entry in which to keep an accurate record of bis least face from criticism on the score of com cut-and-dried Christianity for no one expects Captain Dwyer, will be despatched for the above plexity, for he simply strips to the skin, wraps anything it his hands save dull platitudes and a Ports, on or about the 7th April, himself in his quil, and sleeps the steep of the carefully audited balance sheet. But when it is
This Steamer has superior Passenger Accom- just Night-dress he or she has none. It is necessary to acknowledge that the hereditarymodation. indeed recorded that Confoclu "zequired his criminal has baffled the combined forces of law, sleeping dress to be half as long again as bis | religion, science, and book-keeping, the case - body." "It is supposed, however, that the reference becomes a terribly hopeless one, indeed, t
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