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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY APRIL 27, 1960.

SIK ROBERT HART ON CHINA.

INTERESTING SPEECH AT THE

AUTHORS' CLUB, BAN

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THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT,

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pod Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 24th February, Toog.

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fature, and all that science cau teach, or his given him the abiding feeling that, as ability to do can pefform, will sooner or later Confucius knew dotklar about it, nobody

"MOTHRKS SHOULD KNOW. be possessed in full, The Chicaman is, how else could koow anything. As regards Chinese ever, in no hurry; be takes things, quietly and and foreign marriages a great Chinese scholar

The troubles with multitudes of girls is a goes slowly, but he will go surely. Years ago and a high official was one day talking to me Sir Robert Hart was the guest of the Authors Prime Minister, Won Hsiang, said to me, and the said our foreign way of letting the want of proper nourishment and enough of it. Olub ata dienge held at Whitehall Court on You had better let us sleep on; if you young people fall in love and choose, and the Nowadays they call this condition by the 21ad ult. The menu included "birds'-nest will awaken us, we'll go further and faster that Chinese way of first marrying and then making learned name of Anemia. But words change soup, and as the card, designed by Mr. you like! They are awake now, and the new acquaintance, reminded him of two kettles of no facts. There are thousands of girls of this Charles Ince, the menu was translated into learning is at work all over the country, but water; the first the foreign-was taken at the kind anywhere between childhood and young Chinese by Mr. Ivan Ches, secretary to the mistakes will be made and the crop will not boiling polat from the fire by marriage, and ladyhood. Disease finds most of its victims Chiness Legation. On the top table was a yield so much or so quickly as has been anti- then grew cooler and cooler, whereas the among them. They are too weak and Trail to model in sugar of the summer-bouse in Sir Robert Han's gaiden in Peking, Lord, Mosks.cipated. It is no easy task to force four bus second-the Chinarea kettle of cold rasist. Some of them are passing through the dred millions of people into lies, yet the new water put on the fire by wed-lock, and over mysterious changes which lead up to maturity well, who presided, is proposing the health of learning will have scholars, and the end will be afterwards growing warmer and warmer, "so and need especial watchfulosis and care. Alas, Sir Robert Hart, said i

the product of evolution at work, and the fittest that said my friend, "alter so or 65 years we how many break down at this critical period 1 The life work of our very distinguished guest will servive. The Government, marching with are madly in love with each other. One the story of such losses is the saddest in the Carries us back to the days of Lord Palmerston, the times, has promised the Chinese people a

* curious chia came to my knowledge in Peking history of home. The proper treatment might whose high-handed methods with Chins were Constitution, and with it some form of repro A certain Junior mess had an excellant cook, bave saved most of these household treasures,

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION not universally acceptable to, his own country. saatative or parliamentary procedure. What but an ugly that do matchmaker had been able if the mothers had only known of men. The problems he was called upon to solve, this will eventually be remains to be seen, but, to provide a wife, and yet he was, des. teemed with dangers and difficulties, When he as a matter of fact, China is, and has, always pite his ugliness, one of the most ami- and given it to their daughters, they would have was appointed the Chinese had lately been very been, a Constitutional Power, the Emperor's able and lovable of mes. At last a grown to be strong and healthy women. It is roughly bandled by us. They were at first action being guided by laws that exist, girl was found, and rumour said she palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive unfriendly and suspicious. They naturally by precedente a record, and by pro was just the prettiest of Peking's lovely and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil,

›00 VIS suitable for Offices in No. 10, ICE suspected the foreigner of "running the show cedure which has become, fixed, Repre- maiden. The day was fixed, she was brought extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined for his own benefit. But Sir Robert Hari show teatation has hitherto been enjoyed in a home; the marriage ceremony was gone with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites R HOUSE STREET, in rear of David, ed the melal that the best Englishmen are measure, inasmuch as the official appointments through; the grooms siw what a treasure he had and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. Sassoon & Co.'s premises. made of, He was not appalled by the difficul. have all been open to the people and competi-go, and the bride saw what a hideous mate building up pals, puny, emaciated children, ties or the magnitude of the task he had taken tive examinations have long been the rate, and the fates had given her. The groom then left particularly those troubled with Anemia, in hand. He had the patronage of an enormous the gentry in every province enjoy, 100, a the room to join bis male guests, and when be Scrofula, Rickets, and Bone and Blood diseases, staff under him. Every country in Europe was

certain amount of parliamentary life, as they returned with them to present the bride, they nothing equals it; its tonic qualities are of the A Medical Institution says: interested in his appointments and keep to

are called on by the officials to form.com- found that she had undone's garter, and with highest order. scent the suspicion of a job. But it was soon

mittees for handling various local measures, it hung herself to the window frame-the poor We have used your preparation in treating apparent that neither fear nor favoured Every Chinese official has a seal of office girl was dead, and had evidently committed children for coughs, colds and inflammation, tered into bis compositing. Ooo great accret which is handed over to bis successor with suicide rather than enter on married life with its application has never failed us in any case, of Sir Robert Hart's 'success is his entire frm and solemaily, and it is that, and not bis the man she had Just sees for the first time, even the most aggravated bordering en sympathy with the Chinose people. The sac.

gozture, which counts. There is a Censorate, So, tragedy is sometimes the concomitant ofóniapneum. The children like it, and it builds cess of this department, organised on Euro. the members, of which have, the right to the cold-water ketile style of arranging how up their bodies; many little children owe their pean lines, and carrying on its operations with criticise, and they may even question the Em- people are to marry, instead of letting acquaint lives to it"-The more it is used the less will mathematical accuracy, amid the comparative peroi's own performance of duty, a right which ance, intimacy, and love settle that for the pair be the ravages of disease from infancy to old age. It is both a food and a medicine,- chaos of Oriental methods, has made a pro- Confucian teaching establishes, for the Em-themselves at boiling point.

modern, scientific, and effective from the first fund impression oo the more progressive peror owes duties to his subjects just as Chinese. The material advance made by China they do to him, and it is the subject's

dose. It never deceives or disappoints, and is in the direction of introducing Western teach-duty to displace at Emperez who fails

the medicinal triumph of our time. "There is no doubt about it Sold by chemists. ing and Western' manufactures is largely due

to perform his duties just as much as it is to this object-lesson. Not content with or

"his "daly to punish subjects who fail in theirs. ganising the Customs, our guest in 1896 1ook During its 5,200 years of bistory China bas over the administration of the Post Office, seen many dynastic changes, and each of them which he founded and developed over the has been ushered in by the failure of the accu- greater part of China Lighthouses are also pint of the throne to fulfil his duties and by the under bis control. It is, moreover, confidently proved superiority of the leader who establishes reported that he has frequently acted as ad: himself on the throne thus emplied. Govern viser to the Throne of China on all manner of ment is, in short, a sort of antiatic machins, subjects not connected with his owa work. He and various safeguards come into play, on every Was in Peking throughout the siege of the

point. Legation.in igno, Qur guest has done a great work, and a work that will be his enduring

monument.

SIR ROBERT HÄRT'S KEPLY.

Sir Robert Hort, after describing the ease with which bis band learned music, stated that during the Boxer troubles some Euro- pean troops got out of band nod commenced to last. A party of Russian soldiers enter ed the house of one of his bandsmen and threatened violence to the man's mother and sister. The bandsman thea' played the Rus sian National Aethem and the soldiers stood at attention, saluted, and passed out without saying a word. He often thought be bad wasted a good deal of money in keeping up ike band, but that little incident was worth all the money he had speat, for it saved property and protected women from outrage. (Cheers.) Proceeding, Sir Robert said: A country which covers some five million square miles of the earth's surface, divided into some two dezso provinces, which are eich large enough to be kingdoms themselves, the smallest having'a population of six or seven millions and the largest of sixty or seventy; a people whose numbers comprise some four hundred millions, and whose history goes back some five -thousand years; a-literature which has beca growing through two dezen cenfuries; a Government which subsists on the moral support of its subjects rather than on the physical force of its armed men-there and other categories into which the subject might ha divided give room enough for lengthy treatment, and even then would be but skim med over 1 therefore avoid detail as much as possible, and only put before you some general thoughts on this occasion.

As regards deaths, the important thing in to choose an appropriate day for the 'burial, and also an appropriate site for the grave. I temem- ber hearing that special care had been taken to select a good burial site for the great Li family, A colleague Viceroy, Chow Fu, told me he visited the great Li Hung-chang when dying; the latter could not spark, but looked anxiously at him, as if troubled about unfinished businese,

So," said Chow, "I just said to Eim, "Set your mind at ease; I'll attend to everything: you. just shut your eyes and go' and he thereon closed his eyes, and soon died quietly." Annual- ty familiesvisit their burial places, and, spreading

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feasts before the tombs far the delectation of WE SELL, the departed, eat the good things themselves, and overhaul the site, cleansing and beautifying it, This regard for the departed"Ancestral wor ship," as it is called-icisava check on the way. wardness of descendants, and amin would suffer much bimself rather than be false to this cult

and degrads his accesibre. It has its bad ride, tending to keep in the old and keep out the new, in ausgery' in particular. The matela medica of China is large, but freign prescri- bess would find it. ifficult to use, though some of the postrums are possibly efficacious. The celebrated Bishop Favier said his only relie from bis gout was an extraordinary Chinata prescription. And now I think I have taken up entugt-of-your-time; but tha.subject is one that cannot be exhausted. (Cheers,).

A short discussion followed. - L. & C. Ex.

Among the people births, marriages, and deaths, of course, make up individual and family history, and volumes might be written about their ways of doing things, if a wife has not borne a son by the time her husband is 40, it is her duty to urge him to procure,, or even provide him with, a concubine; and even when there are already soul of the first wife, a man may bring in a concubiae ora secondary wife, or more than one, who are numerically referred to, but the children of the Nos. 2, 3 or 4 mistresses are all considered the children of the No. 1 or real wife, and this practice has wrought out two results in thina of a socially useful kind there are very few unmarried women, and there are still fewer illegitimate children. A girl child is just as welcome in a family as a boy, There is such a thing as infanticide, but it is- not general, and it sometimes affects a boy. child just as readily as a girl, the cause being press. probably poverty. A good many years ago a Consular doctor and his wife were walking at. Amoy; asthey passed adung-heap the lady cried out "O, Charlie, Charlie, what is that?" And poisted to a small matted package from which a tiny finger protruded, and was seepto be moving; they look up a package, opened it, and found a baby boy, newly born evidently, inside) They took the baby home and reared it and after- wards on a visit home 10-Scotland took the child with them and gave it some education: in 1856 that Consular doctor came to Ningpo as Consul when i was an assistant in the Con salate, and they had with them as under-builèr a fine, bright healthy lad of 13 or 14′′; this WAE the child is question. Later on they left Chipa and got the lad a good billet au steward on an English gunbent; his name was Les Buch. Still later on the Chinese Government sought to create a navy, and, wanting men of naval experience, they made Lee a commander, and gave him a five steam corvette to take charge of. I once visited his ship at Canton and found all in excelicet condition. Soon afterwards he was caught in a typhoon, and the veite! broke and went down, but some of the crew escaped, himself among them, and be was then condemned to death, but forgiven, for losing his vessel. He was then given command of one of the Mosquito Squadron," boals buil by Armstrong, and he was at the Pagoda an chorage Foochow, in 1884 when Admiral Courbet destroyed the Chinese fire in port

The Chinese may be said, in a general way, to be a homogeneous people, but, of course, spread over so large a superficies, while there in general similitude, there are infioite dif- ferences, the outcome of climate, covironment, occupation, &c... The Chinaman of to-day may be considered the product of heredity, educa. |tion, and custom. Ask him why he does so

and-so, he replies, "Buy ola custom," and that old custors has come down through, per tapt, a hundred or more gaserations, is now as Imuch part of his nature as acquired hábit could possibly be. Possibly heredity has had more weight in China thon elsewhere, its influence coming dowa from a far-away past into the life | Lee, knowing his little craft was no match for of lady in a continuous stream, and with so such vessels, escaped up a sballon-water creak little disturbance from without among that and saved himself, vessel, and crew; for this-- exclusive and self-centred people. Education for saving bis ship, ead not dying with his in China has been of its own kind, and has had comrades of the fleet-be was again, con- demned to death, bu, as the Commander-in. for object rather the formation of character and the performance of duty than the spread of Chief, Obang Pei Lun, son-in-law of Li what our Western world chasiders knowledge. Fung-ching, was also condemned to deaths "You have husbands and wives-you have and respited, with a sentence of three years' pirants and children-you have brothers and banishment and hard labour, Lee Buah was sistors –ysɑ have friends and relations-you | similarly treated, and in 1988 bis banishment "bava neighbour and acquaintances➡you have | ended, he visited me in Peking, and gave me your Emperor and 'bin reproveniatives the on intéresting, account of his various ex oficials. Each of these relations has its duties: pariences. After, that he got some other fulfihem and you will be right-salf to futbl official appointment of a novel kind, and did themand ill will follow!" There, is nothing wall in IL. He brought up a family of BODE, controversial-nothing ibu reqsiros proof-in and they did well, too, being successful at the such teaching, and sensible men-and Chinese literary examinations. Such is the bistory of are very sensible, people-accepted the Cone baby boy exposed by his Chinese parents for facian teaching, ravered it, and lived the life, death in 1842 et Amoy, and rescued and roared The reinit is singularly law-abiding by a British Consular official. The Chinesa intelligent, frugal, industrious, and themselves have foundling bospitals, and so have bave during their long the Catholic missions. Regarding Catholic mis possibly every took they rather look for the church's growth commonsense viawai in the propagation and reiting of Christian. The teaching has, familles than in the conversion of grown Protestant isionary rather lities; it has been people. T

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