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·A·MODERN MISSION TRIP IN

(BY

'CHINA.

REV. DE, MIMOTHY_RICHARD IN

"THE TIMES, "}

China is passing through a great crisis, which is watched keenly by all the world, as it affect the world more deeply than the movement in any other land, I have taken a five weeks' trip through North China in April and May, present some features which may be of some general as well as missionary Interest,

Formerly coolies despised our massage; now statesmien are glad to converze with us.

FASHIONS AND FANCIES.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22ND, 1908,

sleeve. In spite of this example and the perm Hon it areated, there is usually colour in the raff, though generally of a pale, soft tono !

I AND Z in the Globe.

OLLA PODRIBA,

EDUCATION OF OFFICERS. OF MBRCANTILE MARINE.

In the House of Lords last month

LORD BRASSBy called attention to the inada quata means of educational training available. for offloors of the Mercantila Marine, and urge that some provision should be made for the education of cadets of the Royal Naval Reserve daring the period of apprenticeship. He said Importance of a Reserve of ( Hoers for the Navy it was not, perhaps, superfluous to insist on The Admiralty had shown their appreciation of

CALLYLE WEDDING, lyle's Bartor Besartus" was written, has just Craigenpattook, Dumfriesshire, where Car been the scene of a notable wadding. The band: was Mary Carlyle, of Craiggupattook, a grad niece of Thomas Carlyle, and the bride room James Carlyle, a farmer, of Pingle, Dumfries.its nephew, Pingle is about four miles from Eoolefschen, Carlyle's birthplace, and this village is the original of the Entaph of "Baxter

on the

WASHING DBISAKO. Bo far as the present-season has gone, wash- ing materials have had very little change. aid by a shower, they would have been which July, up till now, vary expensive wear daring the downpours with has favoured us The The embroidery is arranged in spiral form, and new linens, however, are extremely farloating, is very becoming, consequently, to figures that lack the requisite beight. The little cents socompsaying these and worn over a more or les ornamental and frivolous blouse, are some. timen long-waisted, sometimes Empire. The I started from Shanghai in April, bearing fronts have a little trail of embroidery on each, with me 500 copies of a 12 years' programme for another sorap of embroidery trims the book shire, a son of Thomas Carlyle's favourite of Pertance by enrolling large numbers of the material, social, intellectual, and spiritual between the boulders, and the sleeves are welfare of China, whereby she onld be enriched embroidered with merely a louch or two on the fifty millions sterling per annum for the relief top of the arms. Sometimes the rovers are of her

poor, could secure immurity from turned back with a little bit of colour in Resartus.” internal

revolutions and external-invasions,

the shape of abiatz or cretonne, materials could raise an army of thinkers able to competoriels are both coming very much to with the rest of the world, and could secure the the froat in dress matters. The Irish highest spiritual development that is in the Haons in lovely tones of flax-blue-and forget world, without which there could be no stability ma-not blue, moes-green, emerald green, grape in any other depariment,

groen, raspberry red, wild-ross pink, coffee, brown, oinnamon, &c,, are in grost demand for country sad easide wear.

I called on the Viceroy of Nanking, who rules some 80 millions; he was most friendly, and

CHOICE OF colques,

▲ BURKE LOVE-LETTER,

to an unknown person, signed Robert Baras, An original holograph draft of a love letter with no date or addreas, recently came into the sustion-room. It reads ----

had invited ; the loading Mandarins and a few It must be remembered in choosing these; untits him foremon of the man it almost should-be-able-to-taru out midshipmen every

officials.

of the gentry, about 50-in-all, to mest me, and asked me to address them. At the close I pre..

that blue and purple wear very badly by the sented 10 copios of my book to the Viceroys, the salt air depriving them of their colour which he Immediately distributed among the sad roudering them shabby looking after a single day's exposure. Botohers bine is the Proceeding to Wa-chang I called on the A very charming linen in this pione only shade that is really reliable in this class of Viceroy there. He rules over 50 millions, and was about to loave to be Viceroy of San-chuan, design of marguerites, which appear to be is embroidered in a rather paler bine in a where he will rule over militone Be growing up from the hem of the gewn, soma deeply concerned for the welfare of land taller than others, and the whole fitted with a especially with the lack of competent run." which he strives to remedy by fastering modern

w garnitura completely enriching the lower education,

put, cṛ a gown, and extending upwards to irregular height.

Passing on from Wa-ohang to Peking by train I had important interviews with two Princes and three of the leading statesmen there I was much depressed by the pessimistic feeling of all. Those who had had power when they were Viceroys complain that they are hardly able to do

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Dear Madam, The Passion of Love had used to be productive of mush delight, as when at taken through sartain of return of affection is surely anything else—The lover who is the happiest of war, but bo who is a prey to the horror of auxiety and dreaded disappointment, is being whose situation is by no means-en- gives me sufficient proof. To me, amusement riable, (f this my

experience

you alone engress every faculty of my mind seems fmpertiment and business intrusion,

may wait on you? For Pity's Sake do, and to drop me a line, to inform me whin let me bate it noce. In the meantime allow in the artless sincerity of truth to say that 1 truly am.

My dearest Madam

Your ardent Lover & devoted humble Servant,

ROAT, BURN,

white

in the Boyst Natal Reserve. The atmost care was bestowed, and rightly so, on the education of the naval officer, but for the young andaly on the inadequate means of Instruction officera of the Reserve the Admiralty had relied. obtainable entaide the Royal Service. In the school-ship-stage-it-did-not-seem necessary to in the Mordantile Marine--and it was from onista aépiring to the more responsible positions call for assistance from the Admiralty. For

these that the Naval Reserve was recruited private effort the Conway in the Mersey, and two soboolabipe had been established by the Worcester in the Thames. These two shipe

of the Naval Reserve: Bat when they passed year in numbers sofficient for the requirement to the period of apprenticeship at ses--the most important stage in professional education-the

in farmor years by the P. and O. Company had need was urgent for some sasistance from the State, The

sea-going trainingship maintained

as ship, the Port Jackson, sailing under the long since disappeared. Today they had only safe. Devitt and Moore, in which the education begun. In the school ships was adequats and systematically carried forward. Another similar in was about to be fitted ont by the powerful combinatios over which Mr. Ismay presided. Two sow going ships could not adequately provide for the educational training of the young ofloors enrolled in the Naval Reserve The majority want to sea se appron- tioes under conditions far from favourable to education. Under the

proseuro of severe som- the strictet regard to economy. Apprentices

anything in Peking owing to the obstraction of / after the fashion of the innies once called lase" LABELS ÞÉSBMBLING BRITISH POSTAON STAMP petition, sur merchant ships ware worked with. ignorant of the world-foroes and how to da Hvalasp, Figing the turned up skirt, of tunlo, la following notice: The practies has recent aid the duties of ordinary samen. At sa iti

the reactionaries, who are for the most part their country from continuing to go down from had to worse. The only hopeful thing about but even they are much hampered by the old Peking in that there are a few earnest reformers; national conceit, without world knowledge or experience,

Leaving Peking with a and heart I want on to Tai-yuen-fu in Shan-al. Formerly this journey took a fortnight to get over, but now Leaving Peking at 7 in the morning I reached Tai-yuen-fu at 11 the same evening. That is sa immense boon to the Shan-si Province speedier and cheaper transport by rail.

Thirty years ago Joskus Turner, myself, and others were bearers and almoners of about 260,000 raised by the Lord Mayor of London and foreigners in Chins in the greatest famine ever recorded in history. We then suggested the building of railways, the opening of mines, the starting of new industries and modera edaca tion ao capable of svarting any repetition of such famine. But after two years of famine relief and six years of praeching and teaching and Lecturing to the leaders of the province I found only a few intelligent ones ready to reconsider the value of their civilization and to adopt some of the institutions of Christendom, while the rent were wrapped in dense ignorance and inveterate prejudion against everything foreign. I left the province 20 years ago with a sad heart at the prospect.

A JEEVICEABLÍ PINE, A There is a rather deep shade of pink which weare fairly well at the sas, and a very pretty Trook in limen of this colour is made for a dark- haired girl. The front breadth is turned up Es. Under it is a complete short skirt, of the a baad of zory coarse embroidery in thick hits thread. Similar embroidery to this outline the fronts and falls a little holow the waist in a reach the elbow, are turned back with little point. The sleeves, only just long enough to pointed outer embroidered in a small design to to match that on the bodice. This very thick embroidery looks extremely well on a washing dress if the texture of it be solid enough support it, and one of its great advantages in that it comes home looking even better than now from the hands of the laundesen, if she will but remember that is should be Ironed on the wrong side so as to bring the raised petals into good relief.

COILARS AND BUFFLES.

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The Postmaster General has issued the been adopted by soms persons of affixing to tho covers of letters adhesive labels, resembling postage stamps, which are used for

WAS somewhat

labels are obviously not issued with any advertising or other purposes. Although these intention of defrausing the revenue, their use, placed on the address side, onusen embarrass on postal prokets, especially when they are mont to the officers of the Post Ofoe, and gives rise to delay in the treatment of other corespondence. In these cirnurastences, the Poefmaster-General has deemed it necessary to issue instructions that, after the 31st of July, any latter or other paoket observed in the post bearing on the front private label in and resembling a postage stamp shall be returned to the boniter.

WOLFE MEETS MONTCALM At the Chateau Frontenac, says the "Daily Telegragh" correspondent, I mest M. le Comte Bertrand de Montesla, a direct descendant of General Montealm, arm-in-arm with Mr. George Wolte, a direct descendant of the immortal general.

Later I learned that the descendants of the illustrious heroes coupled bedrooms at the Chateau Frontenac, divided only by bathroom which both gentlemen used in common:

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Neck wear is important, not only at the seaside and in the country, bus at all times, and the ingenuity of many minds is brought to bear upon producing an abundant variety. The little ruohe round the nook is now considered almost indispensable to these. A turned down vollar in plosted fine batiste has rising from beneath it a high collar with three pleats to match, hoaded with the little ronbe and finished with a neat black satin bow and ends, Another pretty bit of neckwear has no Irish lace band with high tucker of the mae and frill below the collar, pointed longer in front than at the back and sides. This does ap maatifully, a great recommendation, for fairly fnerpensive as these small articles are, they scnstitution suficiently robust to be washed at Dr. A. Bulleid, of Midsomer Norton, Somer-

par for themselves unless they are of least four or five times. A very elaboratet, who discovered the British lake village at ons is made of folded ribbon with festber Glastonbury in 1882, has now found another trimming sewn into the under-side. This group of lake dwellings at the village of Mears,

about three miles to the north-west of Glaston Teatens at the back, with a bow of the ribbon. hury. The site of the lake village consists of A very simple little collar has five tucks of two fields oqyering about 12 sores, and is marked white batiste. In the centre, with a band of by a number of grassy mounds formed by the lase top and bottom. From the middle fall four leaf-aksiped pieces of the tucked batiste, excavating on Monday, and has found large Boors of the dwellings, Dr. Balleid began sach surrounded with an edging of lace match quantities of rolics, including objects in bronse ng that on the collar.

boge, born, and pottery. The village is supposed then that at Glastonbury, and it is anticipated to be of late Celtic date. This village is larger will yield more in relia

scarooly

HOME MADE TIES.

DISCOVERY OF A LAKE VILLAGE.

part in working the ship, but, in he and stilur gued that the apprentice should take his

carried up to the standard required in in port was given to chipping paint and similar. occupations, his naval education could not be the Royal Navy. Adequately to extend the facilities for the education of officers of the Reserve Blato and should be given to a limited extent, and under conditions which would ensure that public money was well applied. Competent naval instructors should be carried, and for trai ping in seamanship the ships should be fully over the progress of education and professional rigged. To maintain an efrotire supervision training every boy should be examined on the completion of sich vorage by an inspecting offloor of the Admiralty, and thus the incom palent would be weaded out, and defects in edusation would be discovered and rainedied. On the completion of four yere service at ses the cadets would pass other examination. Assuming that the policy of grants for the training of Beserve or data were charge to the State would be inconsiderable in approved, the smount, Assuming that the amount for each cadet need not exceed £25 a year, and that 40 endets were carried, the annual grant for each ship would not axceed $1,000, Four or five ships would supply the full number of young offloorn quired for the Reserve, and he was confident that, with soms encouragement from the Admiralty, abipe would promptly be fitted ont in this country as they had been in Germany by the leading shipping companies....

Instruos tion in engineering, which had become necessary for every ofloor trained for the ss service,

could he provided for the Naval Reserve at small expense. Midshipmen of the Navel Bs. serve should go through a six months' course at Liverpool and the necessary cost should be approved schools of engineering, ach at those which had been established in London and covered by a grant under suitable conditions. The exporditure which be had ventured to re- result would be more than commensurate. He commend would be inconsiderable, but the did not propose to deal with the general ques- tion of technical education for our ear, There were some admirable rebools, but they were all too few, and there was a strong case for more liberal appropriations from the grants voted by Parliament for technical education. and other nautical establishments, which existed Lord MusKaser said the two school ships

But today I find that a marvellous change has taken place there. They have not forgot- ten the charity of foreigner Christians. On arriving at the station in Talynen-fa, near midnight, I found all the leading offlails and gentry had sent their servants with cards of welcome. I was invited to address over 2,000 studenta from 25 different schools and colleges in the capital, but with students from every county in the province, Each school orme in its respective uniform, some in khaki, some in blue, some in matre, and some in white, Aging great banzers and marching to the music of two bands. As there was no building in the

The butterfly how is one of those very nity large enough to hold them all they mat in easily made at home, whether of silk, or a great square in front of the museum, and I, or chiffon. A piece of about sight addressed them from the verandah on the lushes wide and equal depth, is caught toge second storey of the mazeum, On my right on

ther in the centre and fastened round with

AVILLON UTOPIA the verandah were about half a dozen of the morsel of the stuff. That is all, and it is An agricultural village in which half the gentry, and on my left were the foreign really almost as simple as it reeds. Coloured houses ars on the telephone, where the cottagers professors of the University.

ribbon run through a bit of openwork can ring up the shopkeepers in the neighbouring I was introduced to the students in a very tril sewn on to pleated batista, makes a journay, where the village school has been broderie anglaise, and surmounted by a lace towns and order their stores without taking the kind speech by the chief of the gentry, who

transformed into

* paradise which is to the Donfers. He said that our suggestions made to

out the jabot of pleated lawn and lace. The them more than 20 years ago had not been for colour of the ribbon can be mailed to any kind care for the teachers and motor launch for of toilette, Another very easily made at home the youngsters-it sounds like "News from gotten, that they had now commenced to sot on

is again in Irish creabet, a perfectly plain, Bat Nowhere, and yet it really is in the very heart thom, and that all the schoolay men who had band forming the collar and headed with a small of England This village Utopia is, says city bad as teachers many men who had edging. On to this band are siltsbed three row shire, Bvs miles from Towkesbury. The village, been trained in our University; he wanted

Bredon's Worcester. to of shaded velvet ribbons in any colour, little show how greatful they were for the instruction of the same marking the centre, Below until the advent of the prosent owner; was in not think it was at all the case that there was a given there, and he had gathered them to hear. any further instruction we had to giver them. comes deep frill closely pleated, and stitched the tumble down condition which is typical of for he said to the students we desired not only underheath the third row of velvet. The frill so many decaying agricultural villages iu the good of Bhan-si Province, but also the good itself has s row of velvet above the little wheat England to-day. The village school of all the Chinese Empire, and the pasce and patterns that form the border.

managed in the bad, old, inefficient style, and prosperity of all nations.

the villagers were as much out off from com- manication from the outside world as if they had been in the centre of the African Continent

holde the highest literary degros the Empire very dainty finish for a toiletle with or withdren a perpetual joy, where there are motor gave & Tery excellent education and they turned

After the president of the University and another of the gentry had spoken a few words

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out a quite sufficient number of officers for the present time there were hundreds of captaina and officers, fully qualified able men, ont of employment,

marine service. As a matter of fact, at the

The EBL of GRANARD in reply, said he did great lack of opportunity for members of the Merchant Marine acquiring knowledge, Ho had made some inquiry into the matter, and he found that there worn moboola in

nearly

Vary big port in the country where persons wishing Shaded materials, since they have been

to embrace the calling of the sea could study all adopted by some of our Royal Princesses, have

matters connected with it. In addition to this, re-emphasizing some of my remarks, the colone are kept pale thong as the ones of

found much favour, and so

there were the two ships, the Conway and the students dispersed in the same orderly manner successful, tressmakers show great skill in are likely to be very

Worcester, which rendered very valuable service sa they came, each school marobing out under making up those, for it is by no means

Mr. Sidney Holland recently told a story of that the Conway proposed establishing a course in this respect, and he had just been informed its respective colours to the sound of music.

easy so someone who was sent for hurriedly to see his of instruction in engineering. He had no On Sunday 1 attended our mission church indoubted success. One of them in s kind of Hospital. When be arrived he was wet at the was being fitted ont by the White Star Company, to arrange the shades of material as to make an father who was in extremis" in the London particularsat band with regard to the ship-which service and found that the building, though gause, very transparent, is made up over palest door of the institution by his slater, who told but be anforstood that it was going to carry only lately finished, cannot properly bold the congregation, so many had a stand. The gen, and is itself in a alternate stripes of him that the patient had just passed away. about 60 mailets and that there would be people want to know the secret of our love for arranged in diagonal folds from the waist over father's last words !*

green and very pale pink and maave. This is Very much distressed, he saked, What were instructors on board who would be competent them. They find it in the spirit of our Saviour, a front breadth closely pleated and hang the

"He had no last words," to teach all branches of marine knowledge. Not only to the Viceroys on the Tang-taxe, way of the stuff" se ruiliners phrase it, this

was the answer, "Mother was with him to the There each year about 75 to 80 vacancies in the but also to a number of the leading statesmen in

Navy for officers of the Royal Naval Reserve, Peking-and the officials in Shan-ai did I distri-ing that the material is not on the bisss.

and for these vacancies there were generally "The manner in which the soft tints play into bute my programme for the uplifting of China. one another in this pretty frok is extremely

BISHOP POTTER STORIES,

400 to 500 applicants. The Government took On leaving Tai-ynen fu st 10 o'clock at night pleasing. I need scarcely add that only

The late Bishop of New York was a great the pick of these men, and from the reports to with Mr. Turner, my friend and colleague, the black hat can be worn with so many colours, story-teller. One that is attributed to him hand the efficiency of the officers of the Boyal readig officials were there in full robes to bid In this one it is of black orinoline straw, with

concured the visit of a certain Mrs. Raggle Naval Reserve was beyond question. (heers). us.good-bye. Thus, notwithstanding so much three or four black feathers and a band of black Apollo Belvedere. Burveying it crately and Therefore, much as he sympathized with the to an art gallery, where she a copy of the The men wore everything a captain could desire. stagnation in Poking, we feel profoundly satin round the rather high arown. Have I grateful that the koed sown in much discourage mentioned the sleeves! They are fitted airly oritically, Mrs. Ruggles romarkod, according to object his noble friend had in bringing forward ment, sorrow, danger, and death (200 foreigners closely to the arms and at the front stop at the blas Bishop, Well, if that's Apollo Belvedere, this discussion, he thought no ease had been were massacred by the Boxers in 1900)

To taken root in the

lady who, made out for spending any extra money. 5 young province, 60 that we can see

apropos the question of Sabbath observanes, Hear, (heat), plainly that the Kingdom of God is alread it, ending in two little tag some inches below give me Huggles.

asked if she might bathe in the Atlantic on but meet that the churches at home should sing feather boa sare back to favour, and was a vary

the cooler days of July, the long dear young lady, is a aen over which I have do Sunday, Bishop Potter replied: "That my Te Deum for God's glory, and note also that comfortable asset on a cold afternoon or evening nothing connected with the University costs a spent out of doors, but with the warm weather

jacladiction." cent to any missionary society.

Our missionaries

s here tell me that the teachers neatsing rather clubgly round the neck and that we may now begin to expect, the short in our Christian gehouls both for boys and girl tied at the back, in likely for the nonce to take are in such demand for the Government its place. that they cannot supply a tithe nor a hundredth part of what is needed. The late deputation

COLOUR IN THE EUFT. There are prettiest in black, and one of the here has testified that the deep gulf

which formerly separated, the missionarion, and the cational successes of the present season was achieved by a lady who, on a smart racecourse, Chineze is being bridged over by the Universityware su extremely tight Directoire bitek gaura What is going on in Shan-ai lo taking place to gown, much cut away in the front, with an large extent in every province in spite of the absolutely immense black tulle neck ruffle, and ignorance of the Central Government,

has now elbow,

but at the back

come and is being rapidly established. It is

Would that sil the missions in China would urite and bare's model University in each provincial capital in the Empire, and begin this very year wherever noge exists alrosily.

With

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