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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1050..

Fireside Echoes--No. 5:

THE WOMEN OF FUKIEN

In one's wanderings, over Fuklen province one is struck by the large majority of wo- men doing manual labour not only in and about the villages, but out in the countryside on. the fields and mountdifi-sides.

Of these there are two Utstinct classes those from the villages. and those drawn from the enor

The mour Boating population: women of cach district wear it distinctive head-dress, is also the Fo-called boat woment, and the awful practice of foot-binding

By. Wm. M.S. Brand

In those days the populace were men here discussed are unusually ront meat-enters: some historians fond of adorning hele. Hair With record Cannibalismut Foochia. Dowers, and both hound or bout As the Scotchman (one cannt kept clean and tidy as com

knife pure with the working women bal) woreda Weard his

provinces Othe

patiently for the husband's re- turn. Then the news 'crime to het that the husband had tol lowed the wife to Erigland. She was in possessioti of The English aduress.

Self-sacrifice

News real.

Messrs. Sdong and Kung aro reported rendy to reveal their Anancial standing.

I wouldn't believe that if I saw It on TV.

Well, that amoh eventually

French actress, Jooking at the made her way to England with that child, and her amazing self-busy streets, besn't know where sherifice and devotion was the

or dagger tdeked in his síbeing- of other whole they are' except { means of an eventual reunion be. / Americans are hurrying to:

top, so the grass-eurting Women, laying her coat mide and sind ing her fiend with her wash to keep her well-oiled half clean, work place to told her catfig iripal

tionally neat and clean in their understand a joke, quick or anger, habits, are good-natured, ready for more trust-worthy than the

She

would listen tu

tween humid and wite, to-do English family who m

The husband came of a well-scow some line. medlutely

adopted: the amnh.

Radio

has never been a common proc-1 and her hair, the most. logical inku, and are fond of children: Wherover that family, went, the Just how EÇA funds are to be

thee among any one class, hence the women of Fukien are re- ferred to in the Northern pro- vinces as "flat feet."

dis-

ments.

amah went too. The amali did spent to aid South East Aula is not return to China. She lived the 504 million question.. for many years with every com fort money could

pirmies and Invadereram the tárry and their whole attention how "yung' Thester"/ "ved to scol

lities which make the Foochow Note the three articles held women the best amahs in China there. Foochow "City Hbs more for foreign children, as well as The village, or feld "women,

the best housekeepers until they than once been attacked by round about Foochow are tinguished at once by a very North Interly hillby, O

Of is diverted elaborate hend-dress consisting of one ocenaton some 400 yours and hasters to their new lord and three large sword-like silver pins so the story goeh, the city Helen Many Interesting stories may FAVELI TODD The Engage thrust through a large coil of hairders were nearly of killed with be told of the devotion of Foo-

ment la announced between

worn at the back of the head, the women foll came to the ter chowamah, to their foreign HENRY

FRANK FAVELL with enormous circular car-rings son of Mr. and Mrs. Hmade of the same metal. The cue and won the day. Their rewards; but one such is outstand

busi- FAVELL of Moseley, Birming wealthier class used to wear gold word followed bylin Tperial ing and deserving of record. A

Edict permitting them to websit young couple of the foreign and

This rings. ham, and GLADYS CAMILLA pins

symbolical plane community In Toochow re- three kn

en shelved word of their transfer to SPENCE TODD daughter of ornamentation went with massive in their

hate of bracelets of silver or gold. Mr. and Mrs. R. Todd

Now, the handies of these pins Canton, so it was arranged for Berwick-on-} Tweedmouth,

The accompanying dress con-

cotton are not the sather the two buter the wite amah, and samil son, `sists of black satin or

sed, have round is accompany the heavier pieces with Lindes crossed," Tweed,

trousers, ankle length with wide w terminals Teorieshoutingasta of fuginge and set the new bottoms hemmed with embroidery, the chopsticks) with Chethird home at Canton while the hus. for The with long wide-sleeved blue salin or cotton knee-length robe bute upright tawem. His we having but really in hoshow

a pyramid terminal, daviene Vinur kivival of his relief." toning under the chin, across and

in specimen ola arti under the right-arm-pit

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

head

wedding

go through Another fact perhaps not

that boy happily married, and that Khan *performi school and college, lived to see gehorally knowit is that the Aga boy, before he lost his life in ceremony... World War I, lived to see his de- voted amoh peacefully lald to rest b on English church-yard.

The Worth of the many in- teresting hill-tribes of Fuklen each have their own distinctive diffure find style of embroidery to their dress. One of the most fantastic of these head ornamen- tations is that worn by the San Tak, or Bak-ka, women of the Lo-guan District.

German magazine' says Hiller is nitve la a monastery In Tibet. I've said it before-let's havo nun of that.

Mascow." 'up

present in England, wishes thenee straight down, the whole knives'te dü"and Chiless] through" one' cause and parent, sweeping it back to cover the

Mrs. Beatrice Church, who is at

kind

to thank the many friends who sent flowers,

and cables, sympathy in the loss of her beloved husband,

NO REMEDY

In China there is want: in the United States a glut. The remedy is obvious--but there

010

Happened to BRITAN

be greatly delayed. The boat women do not what of aged-about, and Carton in wife was young and a bit these wins, though "they?! drvää) of their hair in a distinctive way those days was a gay spot.

bit

She

the

"Lle reaches Prague on way to Usually, of course, propaganda stories go the other way.

Combing their hair down and cara, to form the customary bun

"Resisting the temptation to on the nape of the neck, they cylinder on contrive to keep in place a silver shoot himself a close range, ho the middle of the cleverly dicked the ball sideways head, from

of the goalkeeper's reach." front of which ornament projects a short rod of the same metal to which a piece stand? of red cloth hangs down, tassel- wise, in front of the face; on the of the cylinder is another piece of similar cloth resembling smoke! the dorsal fin of a sharke, rumming kept the length of the cylinder,

strings

of brightly coloured beads, or unpolished Why make a song about it? semi-precious

stones,

looping

Is there a psychiatrist in the

Holy

•

fire. Church catches

to "Choral Group

present Cavalleria Rustleaga at Lec's."

robe hemmed with embroidery and caught at the waist with a * Jetters'' öfļ separate satin of collon sash. drawing it tightly back to a bun apont most of her time at Hong head Jutting out from the fore- to. Anderson, who shot well out

To complete the outfit are at the back of the hood from Kong to the distraction of the shoes of the mocensin type

which is combed a horn capace tanco on a

amah, relied more for assis- elaborately embroidered. Before

neighbouring family with

Aligree a sliver, or gold, the Introduction of knitted socks,

Their costume in much the who were old friends of the us such as were used were made to P

same in style as the village wo band. These friends, however, measure out of coloured cloth, men, except without the colour-

our- found themselves transferred, so the omah took the child to Hong padded and quilted for winter

ful hemming. wealth

of wear. One judged the

Both classes of these women are Kong to search out the wife. the

Meanwhile the husband reach- the by women's head- dress and ornaments, be they of an arcingly handsome Tea- cd Canton to find a deserted strong robust majority gold, silver, solid or pinted, or of tures

Mongolian

on devold

house. He

was distracted pewier. I have never known of characteristics, which forms an hearing all that had

ethmological puzzle remaining to As soon as possible he visited brass being used about Foochow used the past tense

se in places and

I have be solved. Some authorities as-Siong Kong only to find his wife sert the people of Eukien are of had claped and was then on her this is because war and civil strife Malay-Simose-Polynesian strain, way to England, The amah had for the past decade or two has quoting their sensfaring and done much to eliminate such piratical record in support of this finery, and not, as many people theory. imagine.

reform a government

Certainly both classes wo-id Canton, movement in 1922 to do away with the use of these pins.

The reader will note

Interesting

of

occurred.

discovered this to be 'so and,

scraping a few dollars here and there, took the child by rail back Here she waited

over both cheeks to the back of the neck, where yet another piece of similar cloth, stiffened, hangs over the shoulder blades like a bobbed horab's tall, which also is aftached to the cylinder.

(To be continued)

That's the Lee's they could do,

o, Mores.

My ignorance, of course, but yesterday was the first time I'd New York "custom

heard of a smelter."

I thought that in America, the old traditions hud long ago been thrown in the melting pot.

Bit baffling, 100.

is no remedy, President Truman told an audience of farmers in Wyoming that since the Communists seized control of China, the United States had been unable to help the people of China. He described the plight of the Chinese as "tragic," and said their new taskmasters had been "heartlessly indifferent

The history of these pins la to the worst famine which interesting. In the olden days has occurred in China in 100 village women going out to the fields or mountain-sides at dawn

The economic plan for South The Commonwealth. con- genuine interests It should dealf years." If this denunciation carried their slekle tucked in the is harsh, the authorities have sash at the small of the back with ference on the economies with first things first, and that East Asia. caniot be made in

the first thing happens to be the single day. Certainly, the Syd- brought it partly on them- a double-edged knife or dagger South East Asia begins on May

at the back of the head held in 15 at Sydney. Preparatory re regarded as giving hypocrience without make more than

Improvement of agriculture, they ney conference a brief confer will last only one selves by the shifts, subter- fuges, aspersions, and denials itke a bun, which, in turn, was the different delegations will

place by a pig-tal curled round talks' by the civil servants of Sical advice. They are supposed tal contibution to evolting | sbout the nation's huge surpluses to which they have resorted held by the owner's pair of chop- of late, in an attempt to justi-sticks. fy to the people the refusal of

The Sydney Conference

begin a few days earlier.

Al conferences of this kind, success depends to a great extent on the preparation which his gone beforehand. During the fast two or three weeks there has been muth activity in Whitehall, in Canberra, and presumably als covers a great many questions,

aid. The President said his reference to the offer of aid Government are trying to in food supplies, and declared find a way to get food into China would surmount the the country and there food shortage without an iota are still American re-of foreign grain. ligious, educational and charitable organisations re-than that afforded by the plain that interest will be coa

presented in China which might be able to help in the distribution of such aid.

No contrast could be greater

realistic, detailed address of Vice-Premier Tung Pi-wu to the relief conference In Peking over two months ago, and his statement to the re- cent six-day conference. This was intended for popular consumption and

ta

Delhi.

Thought

At

are

Prisoners

U.K. to the

against increasingly rebelling' their guards.

ko-called freedom movements.

It seems that South East Asia

is not the only place plagued by -

The U.S. Congress is worrying to be Carrying bn covertly the old Imperialist game.

the The Sydney conference may of farm products.

There is talk of amending the very least they are giving advice prove to be only the prelude to which runs counter ta all the other

even the law of supply and demand. deepest desires and ambitions of bring in Who Carm subsidy law, and possibly the Asión mind.

or his country equipped steel mills, smicking with fat

By

WINDRUSH

Comm3City free quiside

*

The Asian nationalist dreams If hopes tire pitched too high with before the Sydney meeting, they will be disappointed. Yet slowly, piecemeal, by improvisation, plan will emerge. All the differ- ent exploration of the economic crisis will in the end flow to one centrated bri of its heads the

of "development

gether, and action will result. rach of the countries of

Sout

„mas. More-is-being done. each

at first be realised. East Asia, both inside the

providing the surveys and statis monwealth and outside.

Short-term development

naces, covered with great Indus- tien material so urgently needed Is to be practienbic. long-term? That is one of the triaf cities, Lis skies made rectiess if a pla questions which people have been with aircraft. Industry connotes The International Bank has sent

parties

to Abla. in London sking misleading to suggest that

Actually military strength, and countries out its prospecting

the Tike India and Pakistan passion- There have been a succession of Me Griffine

Berenti

Com

for the emference must choose 'one asi hody' fostra strong fúlitary forces, | American missions t

In the old days natural calamitics were regarded with falalism as the inescapable visitations of pitiless nature. As Mr. Hsieh Chueh-tsal, the Minister of Interior, told the monitors abroad. Two-thirds the other. It will be

of being able to pursue their own there have been all the rumours conference of relief workers of it was devoted to a vehe- In every possibility of

be foolish foreign and defence policies. from Ameries of the plan to embark exclusively "on

The Sydney Conference, If it is translate some of Britain's Isler- times the ruling class "which can imperialists" and on the fects

mling balances into dollar bandes. which

results give their

therefore wise, will

show a Spmething will eventually, emer

Industrial a long time lag, frem. rode on the backs of the peo-motives of the proffered aid

Interest in the

East from all. this. The open questions which the South plo" did nothing about such an attack which even in- One of the main

projects

starm calamities. The People's Gov- cluded the work of the ing the conference is one which Asian countries will lay before it is whether it will emerge in time

rides out of the political psy-Some of

are quite before the, Communist of these ernment, on the contrary, he Hoover Relief Mission in chology of the peoples of Asia, practicable.

ey breaks on South East Asia. said had combined production Europe and in the Soviet To them, modernisation has come

Now for with relief. How efficient or Union during the great Rus to menn Industrialisation.

in Peking last week, in former ment attack on the. "Amerje me But it would Partly boostise of the very novelty visit was

lects

pathetic dimculties tac-

provided icy

land,

Inefficient that effort has been 1 sian famine after the revolu- the supreme need of most of the ruled by a programme

post-war now a

Mf the Chinese Communists of self-reliance—or, as he pit Which to base a rapid, industrial timates the AsIk' as'.

will be very use- in the country for Asian countries is to

ls to expand their which they are intended but over only the people themselves tiba. Mr. Tung referred to

agricultural production and the whole region. An example is can tell. But that help was the blockade and described remedy the inefficiency of their the extension of the Indian ateel and still is needed from the American offer as agricultural methods.

industry. Prove

Indin, for example, could

But where can the capital come abroad to supplement the "tiendish double-dealing."

projects of this sort? meagre resources available The Chinese people would improve its agricultural output m cannot be doubted if only no longer be duped or insult-By, say, 20 per cent which could Very large sums may be needed, an amount equal to that ed, he said, and the work of, and its present diffcuties, entry Great Britain has already passed normally imported in a good recovery and relief could and a favourable balance of payments, on 16 Ario headly all are assist- under Marshall Ald. (Mr. Bavia year."

would be effected on the basis and secure the internal market on since which it has itself receive

development.

British had been really anxious to it in another more ominous Main task

000,000.) kdep open a window to the phrase, on the basis of the There can thus be little doubial is in increasingly short sup

** Inside the Commonwealth, capi, Western world, the offer of people helping and saving that, if only economic considera as there can be only one ail in famine relief would themselves.

tions are taken into notice th have given them an excellent In case there were any conference would

farming sites quate

A Amerien. And good moment for opportunity. They turned it among them who could not be improvement und traten pathe source of new sums on an ade- down with scorn and con- convinced either of American main Talk. And ter much the ti

the Commonwealth, by proposing to America tempt. Perhaps more strings villainy or of the wisdom of organising technical aid and the should undertake vast new com- were attached to the offer rejection of aid, he took an Investment of capital, could db mitmin at which it could not

to

Can agricultural ro- see the end. promote than was altogether wise other tack. China was now But the fore and temper of victorious, and so far from volution in all the

Baht Asia, the lands of South tob the refusal to accept ald made taking aid from others, ought But if the Conference states to

even to scorn asking the help explicitly that this is disain, ALE

political a mere matter of detail such of overseas Chinese. On the will run luto all Finds of

dmculties. For two generations as the machinery of super contri

among the propaganda vision, determined the rejecthom and tion. The

it clear that politics, and not

line was

laid down by

Liu

ing

cht in his n

to Party

China should help

which

East)

dhired to keep The Asign

'tho

Danger of Communism

that it

opinion 16 that something maturing i

to be done for South It is not, the eco- #titantion will deteriorate gibre, and the only end Communism. Here la ene population of this wrthy standards" of living Large the lowest in the ough there are okses në

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