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FRIDAY.

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Per OCTOBER B1.

Lahore NOVEMBER 1.

.Omblilin

Sunning .Zosma

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Shanghai

THE MME TUSSAUD'S

OF JAPAN.

Holiest Park in the World.

THE PAST RECALLED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Yamagata Japanese. Wux- work Exhibition lies far away from anything resembling the Marylebone Road, far, indeed, also from any Metropolis. Yet it la in even more national affair' than Madame Tussaud's and lies in the very heart of the national life, Bays the Yamagata correspondent of the Morning Post.

Tokyo is much too new and

business-like to enshrine the soul of so antique and mysterious a Hence, ration as the Japanese. if one wishes to find the fons et origo of the Japanese Empire as well as its present inspiration one west of must travel far away, Tokyo, to the little country town of Yamada, where lie the ancient U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan, and Shanghat (San

.President Wilson

Ise Shrines. Francisco, Oct. 3)

2,

The chief of these shrines is NOVEMBER

.President Cleveland that of the Sun-Goddess, Ama- NOVEMBER 3.

terasu, the divine ancestress of the first Emperor, Jimmu Tenno, Sourabaya

who is said to have founded the Canada, U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai (Van-

..Empress of Russia present Imperial Dynasty as far couver, B.C. Oct. 16)

back as 660 R.C. Of this Ise President Madison Shrine one may, for once, correct-

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NOVEMBER

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President Pierce. Oct. 18)

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ly employ the much-abused adjec tive "unique.". Not only is it de dicated to the only Sun-Goddess. founder of any existing dynasty, but its beautiful precincts stitute the cleanest and holies: park in the world.

Holy Ground.

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BIRTH OF THE ALPHABET.

Influence of Mouth Gestures.

CO-OPERATION OF TONGUE.

London, Sept: .18. Students of the alphabot bollove the influence of mouth that gestures is responsible for its de-

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A corresponding sympathy of movement. between the human mouth, tongue and hands is said to be the paramount reason why we have a definite alphabet, so named because it is derived from the Greek names of the first two on demand letters-alpha and beta.

Sir Richard Paget speaking be- fore an anthropology group said that the symbols are commonly 鄒 closed suggestive, either of mouth, or of two lips closed or pro- jected, or on the point of opening. If the alphabets of different nations are examined it sound that in the letters standing for the sounds of P, B, M, and W, and also for the vowel sound U, the two lica are more or less protruded brought together,

and

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Shape Sounds. Sir Richard believes that evary letter of the English alphabet, a series of conventional symbols each indicating a single sound or of sounds, except combination possibly H and Q, is closely re- lated to the shape of the mouth.

A number of examples of the Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par. English alphabet were given by Sir Richard which follow:

A-this letter was originally written lying on its side, suggests an open mouth facing right.

Bs the profile of two lips, pointing towards the right.

E-representa a mouth pointing to the right, with the tongue at midheight, as in pronouncing the sound of e in men.

Is an elavated tongue, as in the sound of ea in eat. sign.

Lis another vertical tongue

All of it is. Indeed, holy ground, from the shining white wood of spans the the Uji-bashi that sacred Usuzu, clearest of all crya- tal streams, to the woodland paths that lead to the serenely simple. structure of the shrine itself. Not a cigarette may be lighted there, nor even a match or fragment of paper dropped.

.Near to this pure and holy

standa ground

the national not only museum, that contains choice antique treasures to glad- den the eyes of scholars, but also the most perfectly satisfying wax- works exhibition I have ever seen.mouth. As we walk solemnly and in due order down the corridors, where even a whisper fades fearfully we find ourselves in the away.

W-is a pair of lips, like M, but midst of antique Japan.

The life-size tableaux and pro-pointing down instead of up. cessions, of priests and, princess, warriors and malds, some in robes

M-represents two lipa in pro- file, pointing upwards.

O is a front view of a rounded

Tis a vertical tongue touching the horizontal palate.

U & V-are both pairs of pro truded lips.

The contentions of Paget coln cide with many other scholars of the alphabet.

Madame L. Cantova, a

Swiss

of severe purity, others shining with rare wealth of colour and ornament, are instinct with real-school teacher, in 1929 pointed out ity.

that handwriting and, articulation in childron are closely allled, and that good articulation promotes good handwriting.

Bygone Life,

Still and allent though they are. they carry us far away into the very heart of bygone life, and F. M. von Helmont in 1667, with reference to the Hebrew alphabet their august presences impresa us as demantding our abashed rever-advanced the belief that. mouth ence. Real, also, must they have gestures are responsible for the seemed to their skilful makers, development of the alphabet- for they have scrupled to dress United Press. them in, anything but the Best .Nov. 3, 3pm and most genuine quality of robea

their dignity expects.

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those days it was at the risk of death that any one intruded his

person in the processional course prehend the essence of Shinto, the Way of the Gods; and here, of a great foudal Jord

Just as in the shrine itself, so at Ise, one approaches the convic bere one is impressed with the tion that such devotion to external air of spotless cleanliness and purity could not be achieved with almple dignity. Ultimately, ablu-out a corresponding cleanliness of tions and bodily cleanliness com heart and mind,

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