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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1936.

INTERESTING PEOPLE

WEST CHINA

Rev.

W. H. Hudspeth Addresses The Rotary Club

MIAO TRIBE DESCRIBED

Hong Kong Rotarians at their weekly tiffin hald at be Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden yesterday heard from the Rev. W. H. Hudspeth, M. A., General Secretary'in China for the British and Foreign Bible Society, a most interesting address, entitled "With the Flowery Miao in West China",

At a early stage of his talk, the speaker produced a colourful Mizo garment and wore it. He described the Mino tribe and said that the people worshipped hills, streams and peculiarly shaped stones. Most sacred of all to them was their hut door.

Thirty-one years ago, he remarked, the Miao had no literature. Christianity had made them a new people. To-day, knowledge took the place of ignorance,,, purity the place of drunkenness, and manliness the place of a cringing disposition.

The President (Mr. W. N. Thomas Cam), on behalf of the Club, wel- comed Rotarian H. Bruce Clarke, of California, and Rotarian T. F. Wel of Canton.

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Quests welcomed. Included Mr. R. H. Scott, His Majesty's Acting Trade Commissioner, Mr. E. Lloyd Jones and Mr. Tilley.

Introducing the speaker, the President said that although he may not look it, the Rev: Mr. Huds- peth had beer. 25 years in China and had made a special study of the aborigines bound to the West of China near Yunnan and Kwel- chow.

THE ADDRESS

Was

Do

The historian Gibbon amused by the Emperor Julian's

"his beard was boast that pulous." On one or two of those Chinese Inns within an hour after turning in, the whole body can be "populous." (Laughter). On such a journey one meets with amusing experience. I recall that one night 38, my boy was arranging my blankets on one of the Chinese wooden beds, I noticed a coolle standing in the doorway watching, and I overheard this conversation: "What are you doing." "I making the teacher's bed," was the reply. "Is the teacher going to sleep in those blankets " "Yes. where do you think he is going to sleep?" asked my boy. "Alya. said the coulie." I always thought that those foreign devils were like

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The Rev. Mr. Hudspeth said- Mr. President and Gentlemen: It is a privilege to have this oppor-horses and slept standing up!"

tunity of addressing the Hong Kong Rotary Club, and I appre- ciate It. Privileges bring respon- sibilities: I will endeavour to dis- charge mine by giving a talk on

a little known but one of the most interesting people in the world-

I refer to the Flowery Miso of West China. In imagination let me take

former home you to my

on the borders of Yunnan and Kweichow.

(Laugther),

STONEGATEWAY But we must hasten on, so taking the wings of the morning we will speed to the end of our journey,

From the "Shu. Ching" (that is

OF

are quite a different people from the Chinese,

THEIR DRESSES

(a) Their language is different. I cannot speak Cantonese but I know Mandarin; is tals for Have you had your evening meal"? we would say "Ch'in-lao fan muh- fu?" In Miao this is Dle ban mo dang?" For "Where are you go- ing?" we would say in Mandarin "Ni tao na-li ch'u?" In Mika "Gu Elab k'o du?" For "Are you well? We would

in Mandarin, "Ping-an puh ping-an?". In Miao this is, Die zao nioh chioh?" You will have heard for yourselves that it is entirely different language.

(b) The Miao wear a different dress. Most of the clothes won by Misc are homespun, a Miao wo- man being expected to weave all the clothes necessary for herself. her

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husband and the children. How delightfully useful this, would be were it the customs in England. It is no light task, however, and it means that the women have very much more work to do than the men. The weave the clothes. carry water. collect firewood bear Innumerable children and in ad- dition assist in the farm work.

Miao men wear sandals, always made by themselves, short trou- sers reaching down to the knee and a loosee Atting upper garment which is between a jacket and a gown. For bead dress they weari a turban. The women wear san- dais, coloured puttees. pleated skirts

which are intriguingly pretty, they acorn to wear trousers as is the custom amongst Chinese women their upper garment, a very open necked bodice, is ultra modern. They wear no head dress but when married they wing their hair into a poke which makes the wearing of a hat impossible.

Unmarried girls wear their hair In two plaits, something like our English girls. On. gala occasions both men and women wear Lowery sowns, hence the tribal name of "Flowery Miao" The dress is pic- turesque and pleasing harmonis- ing beautifully with the mountains on which they reside.

HOME..MADE DRESS

I have brought a gala dress with me and with the President's per- mission I will don it so that you might more easily plcture the Deo-

will turn round for a few moments for you to see it. It is entirely home grown, The cloth was woven from hemp cultivated in à village garden. This woollen tex- ture was made from wool sheared from their own sheep these pretty cotones were obtained from plants and roots gathered from the hills. This gown was made for me by girls who had been forced to live caves for six years having been driven from their homes by Chi- ese briganda.

CORRESPONDENCE

MAH JONGG NOISES

(To the Editor of "The Hong

· Kong Dally Press”)

Sir-May I be granted a little space in your esteemed paper for publishing this letter.

OBITUARY

Mr. Herman A Nelson

A FRIEND OF YOUNG CHINA

It is with deep regret that we My relative has told me that he have to record the death of Mr. has always been troubled by the Herman A. Nelson, a very valued noise of playing Mah Jongg made helper at the Wing Shan Moon by his neighbours after midnight Mission, Yaumati, who died at the and he is afraid to prosecute thein Kowloon Hospital on Saturday to fear of making angry of them evening from

erisipelas at the who would make him some harm. early age of 32 years.

The funeral took place at the

After bearing what my relative has said I hope that the Authori-Colonial Cemetery, Happy, Valley. tles should pay attention to those yesterday afternoon, when 'Rev. V. who play Mah Jongg over mid-Mills conducted the burial ser- night

vice at the grave-side..

Yours faithfully,

LL

Hong Kong, August 11, 1938.

NO CASE TO ANSWER

Temporary Receipt And Stamp

WARNING TO LANDLORDS

Ko Lo Chi, living at No. 1, Lynd-

DECEASED'S HISTORY

Prior to the burial rites, a fune- ral service was held at the Peniel Mission, Portland Street, Kowloon in the same afternoon.

The Rev. V. R. Mills in deliver- ing the oration said.

A few items, culled from our departed brother's history will be „of interest to all of his sorrowing

friends gathered here..

Herman Arnold Nelson was born, In Stillwater, Minnesota, on Octo- ber 8, 1904. cf a godly mother. From childhood Herman showed religious Inclinations, but not in- til he was eighteen did he make's definite decision to follow Christ and experienced a change at heart which altered the whole course of his life and work.

Early in December of 1932 he arrived in Hong Kong and pro- ceeded to Kanylu where he dll-

studied gently

Cantonese for about six months. However, this did not prevent him from spend-

hurst Terrace was summoned, be- fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Cen- tral Court yesterday charged with issuing a rent receipt without a stamp on March 28,. in connectioning hours alene in his room with the Word, his devotional practices being the outfitqw of a sincere, love with No. 51A, Sing Wo Road; of which premises he was the land-

for God and the lost. lord.

During the past three years he largely engaged In teaching. English in the Colony. Sergeant Whitcroft appeared for his purpose being to lead the the prosecution and stated that the youth of China into a personal case was brought to light when Mr. knowledge of Christ as Saviour. In J. F. Mugtord. an Inspector of the YM.C.A., both in Kowloon and Stamps, was rung up on the tele- Hong Kong. he was much beloved phone by Chan Hon Pak, enquiring by all the student body for his into the validity of a certain refaithful presentation of the way ceipt which had been issued. of life as taught in the Holy Scrip-

Mr. A. el Arculli appeared for the has been defendant.

Chan Hon Pak, tenant of the premises concerned, stated that he had paid the rent through his son. He had received two similar reat receipts from the defendant and no printed receipts.

tures. He was an act've worker in the Homuntin Bible School alto.

It is thought by those with whom he resided that Herman had a' premonition of his homegoing, for on leaving the house for the Kow- loon Hospital on Tuesday 4. he said: "I guess my work in Hong Kong is finished. I am going to

Chan Kai, the son stated that when he went to pay the rent, the defendant was not there but an- | Tin Tong." other man had given him the re- It was on the following dáš, celpt saying that a proper receipt | Wednesday that his fever" mount- would be sent the next day.

ed and he became unconscious Mr. Arculli submitted that he from which де never rallied. had no case to answer as it had Erisipelas had developed from a not been proved by the prosecution that the defendant issued the re- ceipt. In the evidence of the son it was pointed out that he had said that the receipt had been issued by another person who had no au- thority to issue receipts. Under those circumstances, Mr. Arculli argued that the defendant could.

tiny eruption on the alde of his nose. He was released from his sufferings by death on Saturday. 7.40 am. August 8, 1938. "For

to me to live is Christ. and to die is gain." Phil, 1: 21.

The principal mourners at the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Bullock and Miss "Devore.

a little native village called Hmaople I am endeavouring to describe. Nah-which in English means You will notice that it is some- Stonegateway, Bionegateway stands thing like Joseph's coat of many some 6,000 feet above sea level, colours and as it is more colourful and is on the tall end of moun- at the back than at the front I tains which run up into Tibet. Boarding either a French or a BI tell my friends, therefore, that tish steamer we will sip down the

we live in the backwoods, on the coast calling at Holhow and later roof of the world. Stonegateway later at Pakhoi and after three of

15 interesting because it stands in four days we will glide gently up the midst of one of the child races the delta of the Red River into

of the world known as the Flowery Haiphong. Here you will board a

Mlap. The word Miso means day-train which after chugging for "sprouts, shoots," and I think it three days I use the term "chug- was probably used by early Chinese ging" advisedly, since at time the settlers to describe the aboriginal gradient is so steep that one feels people, the sprouts of the earth, who that by leaning forward one will were in many parts of China be- help the puffing engine) after tore the Chinese. chugging for three daya this train

(c) Again unike Chinese the will deposit you in Yunnan Fu, the the Chinese book of history) we Miao never worshipped idols. nor capital of the province, known to

learn that 4,000 years ago Miao had they shrines or temples some as the Switzerland of China,

tribes occasioned considerable trou- Indeed it took me a long while to to others as an "Ethnological gar-

ble to such historic figures as Bhuid.scover what were the objects of

THOSE PRESENT den;" both descriptions are very

His Worship in discharging the and his successor the great Yu. At their worship. They were hills, a

defendant said that the case was a

Among the large gathering of. apt.

that time the Mlao occupied sacred tree or grove, some pecu-

and colleagues, This Tonkin-Yunnan rallway Hupeh, Hannan and Kiangat and larly formed stone to which sacri- warning to all other landlords who friends" with its ascending slopes, its daunt- I myself think that before then fices were sometimes made, and,

are in the custoin of issuing tem- assembled together at the grave- less bridges, 113 viaduct and they were found iri areas still fur strange to relate the hut door wasporary receipts. It was a danger-side to pay their last respects were tortuous tunnels, is one of the en- ther North. Since those far off worshipped, since it was through our practice, and be hoped that all Inspector R. Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. glasering feats of the world, of | days, however, they have been gru-

this that evil influences, sickness, landlords in Hong Kong would take V. R. Mils, Mr. W. H Lye, Mr. and Mrs. Sheets. Mr. Henry McCune, which the French "may justly be dually dispossessed of their lands. misfortune demons or hobgoblins warning.

Mr. Paul Lel, Mr. 8. P. Ho, Mr. proud. Yunnan Fu is the terminus driven to the West and brought might come. The ritual of the

D. O, de Silva, Mr. W. Smith, Mrs. but our destination les still from into subjection. ten to twelve days further North

Philips, Mrs. A. Harrison, Miss Cole, Mias Ward, Mias G. Dunn, The first day may be done by the

Miss W. Waters, Miss M. L. Oak- recently introduced motor buses

ley, members of the Y.M.C.A. and but the last nine days must be

many others, travelled either in a sedan chair or on the back of a Yunnan pony. Yuonan ponies are -wonderful beasts being as sure footed as goats. If you are particularly en- ergetic, you might walk. .......

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A CHARMING. JOURNEY

• MANY' TRIBES

It is of interest to mote that

· door had a detall and sacredness which reminds one at the Pass- over Feast of Old Testament days.

an important part in Miao re- Wizardry and witchcraft played

igen, but I have not time to give any details.

(d) For food the Mizoeat vegetables and steamed malze

though dislodged and subjugated, "they have never been absorbed by the Chinese: Indeed the impact of Chinese religion and of Chinese culture has made surprisingly little impression on the Miao. They are which is something like what I how divided into many tribes. I

steamed sawdust would have come into contact with the be, they also eat buckwheat and Black Miao, the Red Miao, he once a month or once in two

imar.ne

not be convicted.

TOURISTS IN

PORT

11.

AFTER VIEWING AUSTRALIA

who

FLORAL TRIBUTES

Wreaths were sent by the fol- lowing:The Bullock Housebold and Bro. Paul. Let, Bro, and Bis. D. K Bheets and the Lul Shul Mission. S. Peck Ho, Coralee Haist,

White or River Miao, the West-of-months they may be able to afford The Australian and Oriental Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Lew, Maple! the-Water Miao, the Magpie Miao

a Uttle meat. The salt which liner, Changte, which arrived yen- Quon, Irene Lee, Dr. and Mrs. and the Miao, about whom I am they cat & rock

salt purchased cerday in the early morning. Lechmere Clift, Mr. and Mrs. R L. how speaking Their ancestors from the Chinese, but when food brought with her a party of twelve Faillips, G. Nabi, Fong King date back to the days when Moses is scarce salt becomes a luxury tourists led by Mr. H. C. Bister, of was leading the children of Israel and many familles live for as the D. F. Robertson Travel Bureau, through the wilderness, and when many

as three months without David was guarding his father's being able to afford it. I have flocks and perhaps humming some seen Mao children fick salt in the of the psalms, Miao were hunting same way as animals. wild beasts on the hills of China,

and their bards were singing a

GREAT. HUNTERS

of Los Angeles,

It la a charming picturesque journey 'running over wild, wooded hills, down beautiful valleys, post smiling landscapes. At one point the mountains rise' to more than ten thousand feet above sea level. Along the ancient' route you see China as she was one hundred, two hundred, even three hundred years ago; there have been few changes. Each day you travel twenty-five or thirty miles and then rest at some little wayside inn where you meet Mino version of the Creation, of They are great hunters and will- with a great deal of kindness. Na the Ficod and the Re-population track animals with A keerness turally these inns are neither so of the world; whilst their story- | similar to that of the American comfortable nor so sanitary as the fellers were narrating quaint le Red Indian. The wild boar is Chinese hotels in Hong Kong, and gends which have been handed hunted on foot and stuck with a They enjoyed the trip from in summer they are inclined to down to this generation; one of knife when he charges; they run be overcrowded. (Laughter). One these I will relate presently. down a deer by surrounding and hears a good deal these days about

Some years ago when passing chasing it from point to point un China's teeming population; you { through Hong Kong I was asked til it is exhausted, they decoy come into close personal contact by two Chinese undergraduates, it pheasants and shoot other and with it in these inns, and a tin of Keatings Insect Powder comes a in boon and a blessing to men.

(Laughter),

it were true, as recorded in Chinese mals with a cross bow and poison- books, that the Mian have tails, ed arrows.

(Laughter). Of course it is not true, but unquestionably the Mino

(Continued on Page 11).

Cheung and family, Ling Yi Shing. Mr. and Mrk E. L. Broaddus, Lo Yee Koo and Mary Chue. Mrs.

proceeded to Honolulu, Samoa, Fiji, Mr. and Mrs. V. R. Mills and Mr. The tourists left Monterey, and Braga and family, Bls. Harrison and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown, New Zealand, (Auckland), and and Mrs. W. M. Burnside. spent nineteen days in Australia. They travelled across Australia,

The Chinese Y.M.C.A., The Pen- tecostal Church, The Pentecostal from Melbourne to Sydney, and were pleasantly surprised at me Holiness Church. (Rev. and Mrs. TH Rousseau, Miss J. A. Sher- immense size of the continent.

merhorn, Miss A. D. Cole, Miss Ethel Strickland and Miss Mavis L Oakley), The Gospel Tabernacle Assemblies of God Mission, Fenfel Mission, The Bethany Bible School, The Chinese Y.M.C.A. Bible Re- search Bociety, The Workers and Members of the Eternal Life Door Mission and the Tsung Fa Pente- costal Faith Mission (Mr. and Mrs. H. 8. McCune) and many others.

Sydney, travelling within the Great Barrier Reef. At Thursday Island they hired a pearling lugger, and viewed the many coral reefs along the coast line

A short time will be spent in Canton, and the party will sail back to America -on the N.Y.K/ liner, Tatsuta Maru on August 13.

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