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TIBET, ITS CHARM AND MYSTERY.

A country where there is no sugar, no tobacco, no wheeled vehicle where all metion must be There are innumerable differ-clockwise; where prayer-wheels

THE CHINA MAII

wash, but this, though a great "fat will take the place of hardship, was nothing extra" "butter." ordinary in Tibet. Nobody ever "Fish and fowl are considered "Most Tibetans too filthy to be eaten. Vege- washes there.

are unknown. Raw "never touch their bodies with "tables "water during the whole course of "putrid meat, buttered tea, and "their lives, and become prae-barley. flour do not constituto a "tically encased in a layer of fat "and dirt which served the usual "function of keeping out the cold. "In this connection it may be "added that from the time I eh; "tered Tibet until I entered "Lhasa I found it impossible to wash even my hands or my face. "Tibetans find the layer of dirt by "no means objectionable, and are even proud of it. They believe that such a layer not only keeps "the cold out, but also keeps the

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"very appetising meal, but a "march of thirty miles, dulls the "eenses to every feeling, except that of hunger, so I ate with "avidity."

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"la" not tardy, for they sense the "dead from afar and foragather "quickly.

"The first portion hacked off "the dead body is fed to the oldest. vulture of the" flock, which will "waddle forward to receive its re- "ward when called. The birds "are extremely tame, and respond individually to the cry of the "officiating lama."

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there was a calming sort of confi fort in the Impersonal manner of the telephone operator herself an she counted off mechanically the frantic words of his query,

"As he turned away he was conscious of only one impulse; to be with somebody. He must have companionship of some sort, any sort, or he would lose his reason. From the dining room there drifted out to him the plea sant din of human voices, He made his way inside and followed the head waiter to his accustomed

walls." seat beside one af the mirror.

And here it is that he meets and

ent points of view from which curi do instead of Church;"where"luck in, and in many parts of Japanese food he arrived at a have been more evident 'signs. of having been out of it for a day half-way to meet the casual

"the country a young man wants

different peoples, of Sikkim, the brothers); and where reincarna.a lot of trouble. It was not, how beautiful fluted shells by deftly "for an honour, and a glory to the reader can understand the fit new-found friend and finds relief

this engrossing book might be reviewed. Geographically it has added much to our knowledge of Tibet and the forbidden City: Authropologically and ethnologi.. cally, no less than linguistically it has aided pis insorting out the Chumhi Valley, and Tibet proper. To the folkorist, too, and those interested in sociological studies it will carry an interest all its own. Then, too, those who have studied Buddhism or comparative religion and are interested in the relation of the success or failure

Readers of the history of the Middle Ages will recollect how How well we know that feel closely monasticism and so-called To awake to consciousness at ing Everybody who has tra- sainthood were associated with the foot of a wayside ravine with velled at all recollects how often dirt. Chesterton, with his usual but the vaguest notion of the says, "It is circumstances under which the after a thirty mile tramp he has inverted veracity" faced, almost anything with almost necessary to any "now-motor-ride resulting in the ac makes a friend of Mr. Granville gusto, The present writer well adays that u saint means a very cident had been undertaken, and Jarvis, late of Orleans, who had remembers how on one occasion good man." But dirt and some- to find on establishing communi- "that quiet magnetic sort of per to cation with the world that instead sonality that hever comes quite after being for shout ten days, on times even immorality seem more civilised inn. They sup-"Lice were an unfailing token of there are ter months of one's life acquaintance but that possesses a there is no cremation or burials to be sure that, his bride-elect plied good Japanese food and, at "mediaeval sainthood. We read for which one cannot account is subtle, indefinable power that where nobody ever wat is your "ing not a not infrequently the special request, four hard-boileder, a compari on epskin that certainly an uncanny experience; inget pritors as the interven "often a companion of the saint when to this knowledge is added ing. territory 'I have something While I was taking some eggs. teeth; where people spit in your away. Not the

"natural layer will be supple- of the Japanese food the "nasan" "would take it to the fire to clean the conviction that there has been for you, Granville: Jones seemed face as the highest type of salutamented by smearing the body pulled a hair out of her head and "and dispediculate it, because the foul play somewhere and that to say. I have something that I will be glad to give you-if you tion; where meat is eaten raw: "with butter or sheep's fat." stretched it taut between her "seraphic father was no efiemy unless moves are made very care

will play into the care to come and get.it?" The dirt brad plenty of parasi-teeth and thumb. With this she "of pedicchi, but on the contrary fully events

Kenwick tells everything to his cut the hard-boiled eggs into "kept them on him, and held it hands of some mysterious enemy, where polyundry is the rule (one woman marrying a "harern" of tic visitors, which, of course, gave

even till Dr. McGovern had had passing the hair through. The

"wear these celestial pearls in his of paralysing horror which took in his quiet acceptance of even the possession of Roger Kenwick most fantastic of the experiences tion is the accepted belief; a coun-his first wash and had got rid of Auted white formed the outside of habit Wm. James.)

The Tibetan monks have in when the full force of his predi- which have fallen to his lot. try too, where about one person the armour-plating of dirt that the shells, the yolk the inside. I

Unknown to Kenwick, Jarvis is criminal in every five is a monksuch a the real annoyance from these watched, and thought of all that this a close resemblance to the cament came home to him.

*Indulgences"

an investigator of In the solution of the mystery psychology and on the pretext of country must have unexploited parasites began: Then they got probably happens in our own mediaeval saint.

free scope to bite. And the kitchens, the floral designs of our and the gaining of merit are in which is shrouded the missing getting him to help in certain interest for

the parasites in the East seem to find pastry tarts, and other things too, universal with them, but this portion of his life the reader is photographic experiments he sub- stores of

the skin of the white man softer but what the eye doesn't see..... does not mean that their morality forced to take an interest which fects him to psychological tests; foreigner...

There are some very interest-la above the ordinary. Indeed is almost personal. When it is these that the thrilling, mur- and more penetrable than that of the yellow man. Anybody who has ing accounts in this book of Dr. McGovern seems rightly to yellow unatamped envelope bear- der trial, scenes in which form been in the more out-of-the-way Tibetan customs and practices. think that the immorality of the ing the dull black insignia of the perhaps the most interesting part

monastic idea. There can be no him from that very cemetery of

very great.extent." regard to the disposal of the dead doubt that the moral life of letters with a word written across The moment. in which the "Tibet is of a low order. one end which leapt out at him? psychologist shifted the focal "has nothing to do with polyandry with the brutal unexpectedness of point and turns the searchlight of "for both polygamy and polyandry a bomb, the reader himself is con- science from the accused to the "can be quite in keeping with a scious of a reeling of the senses accuser is indeed a dramatic one. "strict, moral code; but in, urban and it is as if he, too, drops the There was an inarticulate stir in From the "Tibet, particularly in Lhasa, envelope which staree back at the crowded rooms.

even among the upper classes, him, "burning a fiery path in his "there is a good deal of moral brain. Up and down the room he strained, forward to catch every rear seats men and women "laxncas, both amongst the men atrode muttering over and over word as it fell, clear cut and de and women.. Curiously to himself that one horrible word cisive, from, the scientist's lips. enough, the real cause of this.is, Deceased Deceased:""

Jarvis sat with one hand thrust think, the ideal of absolute

The walls of the room seemed into his pocket and his keen eyes. "celibacy" instilled by the

to be coming closer and closer: fixed upon the group of lawyers. "Church."

He felt as if he was becoming | below.... A casual observer of the smothered. Taking off his hat scene.might easily have mistaken. he went out into the hall and his position and assigned to him walked down the five flights of the role of prosecuting attorney." stairs rather than encounter the elevater boy. On the way down A. H. CROOK. he decided to send a telegram of [To Lhasa in Disguise by Dr. enquiry to the family lawyer in W. Montgomery McGovern, New York: The indelible pencil Messrs. Thornton Butter-handed to him by the girl in the worth, Ltd., London 21s. little hotel booth seemed to write *net:]

the message of its own accord and true liberty.

Then, too, there is something extraordinarily interesting for the traveller in walking on the

of the monastic idea with the pro gress or decadence of the coun try will find much to think over brink of a precipice, so to say-parts of Japan must have noticed Tibetans neither cremate nor country is largely fostered by the dead letter office finds its way to of the book, revolve upon to a in these pages: The book might the kind of interest which Burton the disc with umbra and pen-bury. As people's customs with be considered, too, from the point felt in his journey to Mecca, umbra left by the Japanese plea. of view of the ethics of travel-one slip and my bones would ling in disguise. But the hive whitened the desert sands"

obvious and most fair-minded

aspect is to consider the luck as a piece of enthralling travel; the skill of the traveller, the interest of the people and country, and the hardships, which had to be under- gene disarming all carping criticism.

Geographical authorities tell us that the hinterland of Arabia that mysterious region from which cume so much of the "over- flow" that caused history in the dawn of civilisation is the least known part of the world. But the next least known part must aurely be the great tableland of Tibet.. The strict prohibition of the Tibetans against the entrance of the white man-and indeed against other races as well-has added to the fascination of the country.

Dr. McGovern had to disguise

his person to get through Tibet. Not only did this require a good knowledge of the language, but it also required submission to terri- ble personal inconveniences and trials which entitle him to a martyr's crown.

First of all, there was the dyeing of his hair. This he had to make a glossy black, and in such a way that it would not come uff on exposure to the snow and sleet. Next, the skin of his whole body had to be stained with a mixture of iodine and walnut juice. The snow and sleet were in danger of making "runnels" in His face and giving the show away, much in the same way as the beautiful rosy complexion of some ladies suffers locally from the heat. Of course he could not

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Food was, of course, another are hard to alter, the Tibetans great trial which had to be faced practice in this respect is of without

Dr peculiar interest. Could it be the McGovern. The fare consisted forgotten vestiges of mummy- of meat, tea, and barley. The dom? meat is Yak flash eaten for the "Curiously enough there is no most part raw and putrid. The "Tibetan graveyard in Shigatse Tibetans eat with their fingers. "or, for that matter, anywhere The tea is naturally "very "else, for the Tibetans do not go coarse." It is made from com-in for burials. The dead pressed bricks imported from "bodies are brought out, spread China. It is "mixed with small "on a large stone slab face down "quantities of yak-dung, which "wards, and hacked to pieces, to "acts as a tement. A portion "be fed to the carrion birds and

There are many other subjects "will be broken off a tea brick and "animals. To assure a good re- "thrown into the water to boil, birth, it is considered advisable of deep interest opened up by this "After it has bubbled for some that the corpse be devoured by book. It stands out pre-eminent time a huge mass of butter will birds rather than by quadrupeds, ly as one of the greatest books of "be added and at the same time "and members of a rascally tribe modern travel. "a small quantity of soda and of beggars, known as 'Rag- "walt. This is thoroughly mixed, "yabas, who haunt the ceme "and then allowed to boil again "teries, will hire themselves out "for several minutes.. Needless to keep off the four-footed to say the use of milk and sugar "scavengers till the kites and vul- "is unknown. Sometimes sheep's "tures put in appearance, which

VICTOR'S RAIDED..

CAMPAIGN AGAINST NIGHT

CLUBS.

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For

few moments until they saw the No one was taken to Vine door opening.

Street Police Station, as was the There were perhaps 50 people case in the last night club raid, dancing and sented at the tables that on the Forty-Three. at this hour. They guessed no- Victor's is a registered club with thing of the raid. Perhaps they a licence to sell drinks up to London, November 23-Vie-had imagined that,, if Victor's eleven p.m., and what charges tor's. the smartest night club in were ever raided, the affair would may be brought will be in respect London, was raided by the police be something as sensational and of the sale and consumption of early yesterday morning..

unexpected as the sudden entry, liquor after hours. This is the club which was through skylights and 'cloak- A man in authority said last over roofs and down night, "If any summonses àre fully exposed in "The People" six rooms,

of police into weeks ago, when its name and holes,

the fasued I expect them to be about address, and an exact description Quadrant Club, the predecessor twelve in number." of the illegal drinking that went of Victor's in polite law-breaking. on there long after midnight, was published for the information of the Home Office and the police under the title "Has Mr. Henders son heard of Victor's?"

These two

The visitors in the club at the WHEN WOMEN SCREAMED, time of the raid, recovered from It was nothing like that. The aeir surprise quickly enough to detectives in the" lounge suits appreciate the cheerful action of were left to guard the door two men who do a cabaret turn Then, before any waiter drenmed on the dance floor. Yesterday morning's raid of moving, or even suspecting men have a small piano, which marks the start of a new and something was wrong, the nine they push round the floor near to vigorous official attitude towards detectives in dress clothes ad- one table after another, playing the night club keepers who have vanced through the second vesti- and singing. made the West End a reproachbule into the lounge. to London's life...

"They even took off their hats

lounge suid Victor

"I thought at first they were a party of visitors.”

"It was entirely different from and coata. and left them in the any raid I've heard of," said "Victor" himself last night,

"Victor" is an ex-head waiter of foreign extraction, who has held posts in leading. London hotels.

- Fifteen minutes after the entry. of the police, the two artistes were performing as usual. After an interval the band also started again; but very few danced, and the club soon emptied when the police withdrew about 3.30 a.m.

licensed for drink after midnight clubs that could be inspected as often as was wished.

The polite policemen" passed the last ewing-doors, walked "Victor" said that a movement towards the floor, and split up, so had been inaugurated to ask for The police had never been that one man went to a separate legislation providing for a cer- there, and as the place flourished table or group of tables. Suppertaini amall number of clubs to be and grew more select-it was parties looked up to find an un- patronised by some of the high-invited guest, quite a nice-looking est in the land, members of the fellow in a boiled shirt, seated at peerage, and leaders of the thea- their board. And the jazz, band

"The People" is in a position to trical and variety professions didn't even stop playing! those concerned began to think

Then one or two people realised state that, following its fearless exposures, drastic campaign that the establishment would be that the police were in. Two or aimed at the plearing out of all allowed to carry on unmolested. tree women uttered small law-breaking establishments has

screams. One or two men turned been entered upon. a little pale as they pictured themselves at Marlborough Street. That was all.

HOW POLICE BROKE IN.

The police officers introduced

Sir William. Joynson-Hicks has

been at the Home Office for only a fortnight; yesterday the night- club keepers were saying that, if

About a quarter to three yester- day morning, three parties of men and women were being let out of the only door next to the Alhambra in Leicester Square themselves to various parties the lordly Victor's had been when the door was kicked open. simultaneously, and where people raided, what was going to happen The commissionaire inside, were drinking, asked what their to all of them? startled, went to push the door to drink again, when a man in evening clothes who had been in the club for some time, gripped the door from behind him and kept it open." "The band played on," said ARE YOU PREDISPOSED (TO:

was. They produced bottles and took samples-and then, perhaps, names.

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Simultaneously, a large man Victor, "and there was one couple with a dark overcoat over his dancing who did not realise even dinner jacket pushed his way in. then that there was a raid. When "I am Inspector" he the music stopped and they went declared.I have orders and back to their table, they found a authority to look over the place." newcomer there.”; }-

He was followed into the vesti- bule by eleven or twelve other men, the first eight in evening dreas, the remainder in lounge sults.

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