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CLOCKS IN CHINA.

DEVICES OF FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AGO.

THE DEATH OF LISTENING.

(And the Birth of Listening In).

[BY STACY AUMONIER.] The time measurers that preceded the modern clock were the sundial, the hour-

Listening is dead. In the old days, glass and the clepsydra or water clock if you visited a friend, he welcomed you The last named contrivance is generally supposed to have been invented twd with courtesy. He inquired about, your thousand years B.C. by the Chinese, Phenith. He was solicitous about your. welfare. He declaimed-even if a little. It consists of two copper vessels joined verbosely-his views on current matters, together, by a narrow neck, the upper and he was always anxious to hear your vessel having a hole in the bottom to views on the same subject. He went allow water to trickle through. In the fifty-fifty with you in a discussion. In bottom vessel is a float, which rises gra- other words he listened. dually in correspondence to the inflow of the water and indicates thereby the pass, ing of the hours, each hour being marked on the sides of the containing vessel. Sometimes the clepsydra is called a drip

clock.

After its invention, its use extended throughout all Eastern lands, what time the West was using the sundial or the hourglass. It is also said to have been introduced to and adopted by ancient Greece: while traders from the Middle East undoubtedly carried home either clock or the iden

Later, mechanical devices were added. The water was made to fow in tears from the eyes of automata. An ancient temple clock in Tsitsihar (Heilungkiang pro vince) has been called the Adam of alarm clock creation. Water drips steadily from the beak of a large hallow bronze bird, the hours being marked by the see sawing against a gang of an oscillating" trough after being supplied with its 30 minute quota of water.

But how different now is a visit to a modern home, let us say a modern coun- try house! You do not visit so much as tack yourself on to a auid social con- dition. Presuming that you are fairly familiar with your host and hostess, no one takes any notice of you. You have to shout your way to recognition: You go up a drive, where you are greeted by the barking of dogs, and the panting. of motor engines. You find yourself in the company of people, some of whom are familiar to you and some of whom are not. Everyone assumes you arè familiar with everyone, and not only familiar with everyone, but familiar with the joke that is going on at the moment, Someone says,Hallo, old bean!" and they continue to shout at each other about "Miranda's linsey-woolsies" or something which conveys nothing to you it all.

There are surprisingly young parents with grown-up sons and daughters and the sons' and daughters' friends. If you Finally, a mechanism was introduced want to play tennis it is best to grip a by which the water, as it fell drop by racket and shout out that you do, and drop, turned a little wheat which moved try to make up a four, because no one the hands on the face of a dial, and so

is going to ask you. You sit down to marked the hours. This is the closest lunch amidst an extraordinary confusion that China got to the modern instrument of sound, a kind of communal interpretn

tion of high spirits. The person who OLD TIME WATER CLOCKS.

Ecores is the person with the biggest Some of the old-time water clocks may be seen in various parse of China to this lungs. You quickly discover that no one day. Two particularly fine specimens knows anything about anyone else's ar used by Ch'ien Lung (A.D. 1730-1799) are rangements. They are all leading their now on view in the Museum in Peking. lives, but lustily contributing to the formerly the palace of the Manchu Em-interpretation of what they consider the peror. Before he resigned his title, inappropriate mass attitude. You shout "Where is into the mother's car: 1924, these clocks were in use in the royal Evelyn (This is her daughter, aged about twenty). She looks round and says: I don't know. I think she must have one to town for the week-end with Joyce." (Oh, Queen Victoria!)

apartments.

It was not so many years ago that the official town clock in Canton was a clepsy. dra It was made in 1315 A.D., consist ing of four copper vessels, joined in cchelon fashion.

The first timepiece on modern prin- ciples to be constructed was set up in Germany in 1879. This kind of clock was brought to China by Father Ricci (1559- 1610), one of the Jesuit founders of mis sionary enterprise in China. It aroused the keenest interest at the court of K'ang Asi, and the versatile Jesuits were order ed to duplicate it. Their products be came increasingly popular, and when trade with the West developed, a depand had already been created for foreign elocks and watches.

The father gets hold of you and says: This is a nice thing about the coal strike. Wha; do you think?" And then his mastiff jaw spreads, and you know quite well that not only is he not the slightest bit interested in what you think about the coal strike but he is going to take jolly good care that you don't say. it. You begin speaking, and then he shouts: "Well, what I think is this." And off he goes. Fortunately he is not always allowed to finish, for a younger daughter, whose voice is more penetrat ing, calls him a silly old fool," and proves by figures she has culled from a FOREIGN NOVELTIES.

Blue Book that he's all wrong.

The They were valued as novelties as much argument becomes pleasantly acrimoni as necessities. Curiously-designed clocks,ous, but is side-tracked by someone turn- set with precious stones, were ordered ing on the gramophone. The argumen from abroad... According to account, there tatire, daughter claps her hands and were hundreds of marvellously-wrought screams: That's Why is your beard so bristly Lovely! Do dance this with timepieces in the Summer Palace near

whose name it appears is Tommy, rises, and he and the fair young daughter rush into the adjoining room and soletinly go through the movements of this doubtless. ennobling dance.

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However, there are some parts of China where the people are still too poor to afford timepieces. Instead, they use a time stick made of perfumed sawdust wixed with glue. These are a couple of feet long and smoulder for five hours, ex- enjoy thote than any other is to be allow- perince being the indicator of the passed to talk themselves. If you would give vised, instead of engaging someone like successful party you would be well zd- In 1920, there were 296,833 clocks and Chaliapin or Kreisler to entertain your sticks are absolutely uniform is make.

guests, to ring up one of these depart- watches imported into China..

mental stores that supply, everything from a duster to a dancing partner, and to order a dozen or so professicral listeners. They should be well trained in the art, capable of assuming a virtue if they have it not, with sympathetic faces, and a goodly repertoire of auch phrases Really" Well, I never!" How interesting!" What a clever idea!"

Do tell me!" "Oh, how amusing and so on.

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In 1994, she ranked as the second largestas: exporter of clocks and watches to China, with a record of 712,581 pieces.

THE PRESENT DAY.

I don't know how you find it! George, Richly ornamented timekeepers appeal but my experience is that unless I am strongly to the taste of well-to-do Chi- allowed to go on to a platform or speak nese, Swiss watches, on account of their on the wireless, no one listens to me at low price, are generally used and retail all. I go, for instance, to a tea party. on the average between 83 and 813. The I lie furtively in wait for some lull in Chinese are fond of decorating their the general talk when I may cut in and homes with round and hexagonal wall say something. At last such an op- .clocks, +

portunity appears to offer. I exclaim Standing clocks with ornamental dials breathlessly: "I had an amusing ex- and gilded figures appear to be parti-perience last Friday. I was going dow cularly favour. In this connection, Ger- the Boundary-road- As soon as I many supplies most of China's demands; get to the words Boundary-road, some though the Japanese are strong com- woman cries out: "Boundary-road! petitors. However, the Germans are Bow curious! My brother-in-law has a rapidly drawing away from other com- perfectly charming old house there. I petitors..

was there only yesterday".

I never get beyond the Boundary-road, and the annoying thing is that so far as my amusing experience" is concern.

Attempts are not lacking in China in the manufacture of clocks and watches The Chung Hwa, or China, Clock Co., Ltd., is the pioneer in the field. This Ermed it might just a well have been the

is situated in Canton.

It imported its machinery from abroad, and is now turcing out products of excel lent quality. It has a capital of $360,000. Other firms of a similar nature have been started, but inadequate capital has proved the drawback.

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The birth of listening-in was the natural outcome of the death of listening. Something bad to be done about it. Machinery had to be set up so that people were made to listen. Talking on the wireless is curiously comforting. It is like falling into a large feather bed after Now, then, you thousands of chatter- a titing day. It is delightful to think: boxes, Ive got you! You needn't listen,

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