1936-03-13 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1936-

Today's Short Story

THE RESCUE

ahead.

By Francis Steegmuller

FLOCKE tightened

"THE greatest performance around the tree, pulled the outer

Its branches

CHINA BY A CHINESE

Book By Sensitive Interpreter

AN APPEALING STUDY

Chinese. Mrs. Pearl Buck, whom

chauffeur who loved the West, branches inward, and soon, under "My Country and My People,* took place one Sunday after the force of our motion, the whole by Lin Yu-tang (Heinemann, 158.); noon in 1910," the old gentle-treetop began to come slowly to- lis, an account of China, and the man from San Diego remark-ward the road. ed.

cranched and groaned, but it did many have come to accept as the "He was driving my wife and hot tremble. Nearer and hearer most sensitive Western interpre me in a big Winton we had at came the rear wheels of the little tar of China, thinks the book "the the time, and we were in the red car.

{trnest, the most profound, the touched the mountains in northernmost Cali- "Finally, they

most complete, the most import fornia, I remember, on our way road. In a moment they want yet written on this subject. to Seattle. Few people drove such resting firmly on it and with The author knows the West as long distances those but a TOBY of his motor and well as Mrs. Buck knows the East his He was written his book in fluent and had him drive us wherever wheels, the man backed his car to exible English, and he is able to we wanted to go, even though the safety about forty feet behind us look at his country with the wide route took us over the most par-

eyes of a man who has also look- row, winding and dangerous

ed at the world. He turns upon it a glance at once of admiration. compassion and despair.

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"Ko road we had ever been on, though, had been so scary as they one leading us through the moun- tains that Sunday afternoon.

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a hundred or so feet deep, there' was no parapet of any kind, some

TO-MORROW'S STORY

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"It was a relief to be able to of the turns were hair-raising, and talk in loud voices, but, of course

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those His admiration is for qualities which, it seems to him, are laching in the West. and par-i ticularly for that "melow wis- Įdom" which might, with advantage. leaven the busy, trivial ferment of

enlightened" nations

stincts we want to die for

in

OUT

Deeply Ingrained This ancient wisdom is so deep- pletely ungraded, sleping down-to-jeould not even whispe:, now that

ingrained in the Chinese that ward the edge.

he was all right. He just slump they cannot be bothered to make "Some of the big redwood and ed there in his seat, staring at

|themselves a "peril" to other na-| sycamore trees. which were roots, and nodding his thanks weaktions- “Deep down in our ed in the floor of the ravine werely from time to time. almost exactly as tall as the ravine: "Pierre crouched by the side of family, but we do not want to die Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London was deep, so that as we sat in the road, cut the rope at the knot, for our State. None of us ever

the high tonneau of our Winton and with a whiz the treetop sprang want to die for the world." we looked down on to the very back to its natural position. Then

In a series of delightful chap- tops of the trees, which were flush he wound up the rope and put it ters, Bustrated with instances away, and we drove on. The man drawn from the past and the pre- with the road.

tense. would be all right in a few minutes, sent, the author exponade this con- "We were just a little but Pierre was managing things Pierre assured us, and we were tented character of a people who with his usual skill, when sudden- too full of admiration to doubt his ask nothing more than to be per-

. rounding a particularly vicious word." curve, we saw a terrifying sight. The marks of the tyres of another automobile, which we had noticed!

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time, veered sharply off to the edge, and there, perched on the topmost branches of a big redwood, was a small red car, its motor run- ining, and a very scared-looking man sitting helpless at the wheel.

at

of "Pierre stopped

obce, course, and for a moment we just stared, speechless. The tree the man was on top of was swaying: a little in the breeze, and he, in

(THE END).

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Chinese The qualities of the character he catalogues as:" mel-] lowness, patience, indifference, old roguery, pacifism, contentment, humour, conservatism: and the qualities of the Chinese mind as; intelligence, femininity, lack of science, logic, intuition and im agination.

He goes on then to explore the moral ideas that have formed the Part Chinese character; and in Imperial Airways, by arrange-Two deals. with woman's life, social

his red car, swayed with it, palement with the British Air Ministry and political life, literary life, the and the British Post Office, have artistic life, and the "art of liv- las death

"Even when we found our vol-decided on the desirability of making." ces, we scarcely dared use them, ing certain alterations to lest our breaths add just enough existing schedules for their Em- Singapore, Perang, Rangoon and extra to the breeze, and the vibra-pire services.

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HOCKEY WIN facing London on Saturday for Singapore modern times is brought before us same thought. He

nor that

which in a way that is never pedantic] away from us, of course, and the and Australia, imploring countenance he careful- leaves Singapore on Sundays for or stilled but always lit up with OVER GERMANY y-turned- towards us was rigid, London.

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Now is the time to vasit, Australia & New Zealand sake, he whispered it with scarce- tions

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la comprehension of life's common

(Continued from Page 6)

(Continued from Page 5) and when he finally whispered. The mid-week service, however, duties and dilemmas.

There was one point on which la reader would probably like more. V. Bond, brought into the team did come up in the latter part of In the section on at the last moment, gave a crew the game he was often caught in Services which under the exist-information. ly moving lips. It was terrible.

the "The Artistic Life" author ditable performance on the left-

an off-side position. "It was in this emergency that ing timetable are due to Pierre showed all his character. London on Tuesdays for Singapore, deals delightfully with calligraphy wing, where his beverse stick cen-

has nothing to say about pottery-

leave

Apart from Murphy, in the

How long have you been there, will as from Wednesday, March 18, ṛand painting and architecture, butres baffled the Guzmins ́ defenders half-back Kine, Ravenhill also

Sommer's Good Work

shone

T. S. D. Whitely and Mackay Kennedy was the better of the

Monsieur? he whispered, and when 1936, leave on Wednesdays.

Services, which under the exis-one of the great glories of crea- the man, his face agonised, whis-

he ing timetable are due to leave tive art in China, and one in which

be were the most dangerous of the two Irish backs. Carson, though pered back, Nearly an hour," turned to me and murmured. (Singapore for London on Thurs-we are the more interested

will as from Wednesday cause Chinese practice profoundly inside forwards, and the former's & sure and hard hitter, was uncer- Monsieur, we must work fest days,

much March 18, 1936, leave on Wednes-affected the practice of the West speed and tricky stickwork often tain in his tackling and was often There is no telling how

All these are matters for the carried him beyond the German passed..

Garthwaite placed England in tree days. longer the branches of the

lzuthor's admiration. His compas balves, but Sommer proved a little

the lead with a hard shot, buz sion is for the present plight of too much for him. will stand the strain.

I congra-

8-day Schedule

tulate that Monsieur on having The alterations briefly, there-the people; his despair for the S. MacNider worked very hard Ireland equalised early in the had sufficient presence of mind to fore, in so far as they concern chattering of the "white-collared, at inside right, and his scooped second half through Ravenhill, keep his engine running. That, Singapore, will bring into opéra-English-speaking Chinese" who goal was a brilliant piece of op-from a short corner taken by

Let tion the following revised S-day would like to cover China up with portunism.

schedule.

New

if anything, will save him. us hurry.

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rope which Pierre extracted from the tool chest beneath his seat-

EASTBOUND

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WESTBOUND Arr. Mon, and Thurs, Dep. Sat and Taes.

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"I wondered what he was going Imperial Airways' schedule of

to do with it; certainly he did

not plan to step off the road on African services has been alter-

to the tree, to attach the rope ed, entailing the following new

Wed, and Sat, Tues, and FH Mon. and Thurs. Sum, and Wed.

Arr. Sat

to the car, for the very force of connections with England-Anstra-ja huge shroud as if it were

-

Nolaz The German forward line swung S. A Fowler then scored for a cross-shot and the ball about in fine style, but England with very rarely made ground, although Dawson increased their lead after Sander broke through on two oc-Boyd had saved well from Wraith, casions, only to fail inside the A first-time shot by Fowler and circle.

further goals by Garthwaite and Welsing and Lange were very Wraith completed the scoring.

Ireland: Boyd; Lieut. Carson and rarely in a position to take the ball on the right-wing, but Muel-Kennedy; Murphy, Lieut. Ravenhill ler made a good impression at in-and Kerri Morgan, Nolan, Capt. Fri- side-left, and thoroughly deserved elle, Lient. Harris and Nolan

England: Owen: Cox and J. E his goal, after an earlier effort, Poder, Lieut, J. P. Williams, W. Reed C.-C. Garthwaite, Sob. Lieut. Wraith

his weight on the branches might lia-England service as from the stinking carcase," and whose con- had failed when he over-ran kim- and 3. Farmer, S. A. Fowler, Lieut.

ruin everything, and yet what else African Southbound service lea7sultations about the future of the self and landed in the side-rigging | Liect. E. M. Dawson and D. A. Carey.

ing London for Capetown on Tues-country resemble a council of of the Scotland goal, ringing the was there to do?

quack doctors at a patient's death whole of the net and poles down bed "Suddenly, watching. Pierre, Iday, March 17, 1936:

Dep. African Southbound: understood. Hastily tying in one Alexandria: Mon. & Fri

from

African

end of the rope a lot such as Northbound: Arr, at Alexandria: Mon. cowboys use, he passed the other & Thurs.

end through it, and in barely an instant he was brandishing a lasso. He whirled it over his head, it spread in wider and wider circles,

and finally, flying out into apace,

it fell not around the cat.

I had expected, but around the

top of the tree itself.

Short And Sharp

on top of himself, much to the amusement of the spectators

Lin Yu-tang's own remedies Dobernecker, at left-half, spoil-i would be short and sharp. "The ed well, but his distribution, lacked sometimes sense of

Scotland Score First

ST. JOHN BRIGADE only way to deal with corruption power and

in the officials is just to shoot direction.

wards Mueller took the ball down them. The matter really is as sim-

the left wing to beat. Howlett with ple as that. Democracy

N. Whitley opened the scoringja "daisy-cutter P easy thing when we can fimpeach during a goalmouth scramble after Band Havildar Gobind Singh an official for breaking the law Van der Vaal had saved from Mac-and Mr. A. A. band umpired and with a chance of winning the case." Nider and T. Whitley, and not long the teams were)——

Further Donations Acknowledged

The Director of Ambulance has “Hurriedly tying the free end the honour to acknowledge with to our rear axle,. Pierre climbed grateful appreciation and thanks jinto his seat.. *Shift softly into the following donations:—— reverze, Moneleur,' he whispered Per G. S. Kennedy-Skipton to the mum in the car. “Be ready Esq; District Officer, South

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afterwards. Mackay culminated aj Scotland:-Spr. Howlett; C. Black- solo effort with a good goal. Just burn and J. Badger (Captain); J. T. E. Gilchrist, D. McLellan and N STOLEN FROM 'PHONE BOXES before the interval so awkward Whitley: W. W. C. Shewan, S. Vac- was neatly wider, T. S. D. Whitley, N. A. E

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