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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1926.

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Five old gates guarding the in- mit od by youthful bandits steadi- An American writer, who was ly increasing in numbor, Now}

nor castle of the Imperial Palaces in Peking just before Christmas, York is reading with astonish of Tokyo, reminiscent of the Toku- says:Poking's social seasonment the Frison Commission's gawa regime, are to be dismantled this winter is much more lively report on Sing Sing, the chief than usual, because of the influx ponitentiary, of visitors from all parts of the world to attend the international

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This report dwells glowingly on the prison yard where the 1,000 odd prisoners enjoy their strolls V

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"It is adorned with flower-bids,

and taken down, so the Imperial Household Offico bus decided.

They are Hirakawa, Kikyo, Bair- in, Sankaku and Yamasato gates, every one of which dates back to the days when the power of the Tokugawa Shogunato hold sway.

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etenographer who was brought shrubs and grass plots, and arose those days, Lady' Kasugano-1

over for the wintar has suddenly found herself to be the "belle" of

Peking.

The foreign community in Peking has the reputation of being the most intellectual in the Far East. During the last twenty- this five years

has group increased from 300 or 400 to as many thousand, dentered in the Legation Quartora European Village in the midst of China's capital. But it is a cosmopolitan villago, with residents from, all parts of the world, and apparently with every other person the author of a hook, or two-or at leust the wife or husband of an author.

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blossoms grow about a fountain, Tsubone, reigning beauty and SCOTCH WHISKY where goldfish sport among the court attendant of note, passed the night outside the Hirakawa Illies. The flowers are raised in, Gate when she failed to return to and transported from,, the green- houses, situated near the death-the castle within the time limit. house."

It was none other than the Hira-- kawa Gate whose doom was 'do- Sports, music, radio and ama-cided recently by the Household tear theatricals are provided. Department. Several prisoners, some of them desperate briminals, have boon! taking parts in a musical comedy entitled "Top Hole."

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It was around the Bairin Gate0ONALD BROS. that Dokun Ote, poot-warrior, planted clumps of plum-trees. "Just a bunch of prankish The Sankaku Gato was ocedted boys," the keepers call their between the Double Bridge and charges.

the Imperial Sanctuary primarily for emergencies. The Yamasato Gate was built on the approach to the Fukinge Garden, celebrated landscape garden within the en: closure of the Palaces. The Kikyo Gate was established in order to facilitate the entrance and exit of the court ladies in thoao days.

One despicable young thing, arrestod lately, proved to have been recently released from gaol,

"Aw, send me back to Sing Sing," he said to the judge. "I've Kot somo fine pals up there,"

No doubt he hankered for the table delicaces of Sing Sing. Convicts are allowed to spend as much as 15s. a week there, and to prepare their own food, the way

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One of the worst errors practis- ed at table is that of "washing down" food before it has been properly masticated. It is an ovil process which prevails in every- accompanying the "speeding-up' thing we do to-day,

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As Shanghai is famous for its cabarets, so Peking is noted for ita dinner parties. China's capital has its tea dances and after- dinner dances every day in the week, but it is not uncommon for a group to remain at home

tion, these five gates are not ex-

What the moon does for the after dinner and spend the eve

sotly indispensable, according to farmer in the matter of the field ning in conversation. Seldom

the viow held by the Household it can do for the city man's indeed does this occur in Shang-

Dopartment," and inasmuch as it hai, er in any other Far Eastern

takes at least 30,000 yen apiece to hirsute crop,, according to Mr. foreign conter excopt Tokio-

keep each of these gates in good Theodore H. Morgan, "a customs where there is no dancing. are constantly improving their repair, they have decided to get inspector in the Federal ship

Brilliant conversationists are minds." Lecture courses are rid of them.

in Peking that given all winter in 20 common

boarding offices, of Philadelphia. various hostosses declare

the universities, well-attended by REGRETTED BY SCHOLARS --

Mr. Morgan denies he is super- difficulty is in finding good lis- foreigners from ovary, walk of teners, One hostess tells of life. Almost all permanent only reason, the authorities would

"If cutting, overheads is the stitious in spite of years spent at ontertaining a famous visitor residents study the language, do well to reconsider, I think," Bea; and bases his conclusions on ach was never intended to digest, from America, a man who was a while there are grown men and remarked Dr. Chuta Ito, wal scientific research which, he and the other evil, that of diluting. great tulker himself, and a lover women in Shanghai who were known architect, commenting on says, proves the moon has great the stomach's juicos so that they an born in that city and speak the decision to take down the fire influence on all growing things, become too weak to work. Then

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search for knowledge has resulted in the formation of a group of Chinose scholars who specialize in teaching foreigners.

However, social life, in Peking

of talk. She assembled imposing group to meet him at dinner. But early in the evening she discovered that she had made a fatal mistake there was not a listener in the group. As result, the American visitor could not get in a word edgewise, and This hostess was certain that for him the evening had been ruined. In Poking almost all foreign residents are rally interested in are very 2nd Floor, Powell's Building..

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Batas reported as arrived at by the Imperial Household Offico.

He continued:-

"I have always boneld the de- creasing beauty of the Outer is not entirely oarnest. Besides Mosts of the Palaces with glancing and dinner parties, there great deal of regret. From the

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as well as the tides. When bald- ness approached and all seemed lost, Mr. Morgan decided to give the moon a trial. On the premise that his hair was a growing thing, he evolved the idea of having it cut only when the moon was full.

The effect was remarkable, Mr

ure year-round. Sports, Ponies expert's point of view, these gates Morgan asserts. His hair took

Doctors have declared that nine-tenths of the casos of in-

digestion begin with this violation of nature's law, for to wash down unmasticated food is to introduce

into the stomach a two-fold:evil: of lumpy solids which the stom-

indigestion begins its tortures, and other maladies follow, for the digestion, nerves and blood are: sympathetic, and on them de- pends the whole health of tho body.

The key to the proper treat- ment of indigestion is renewal of the blood; this will promptly create an appetite then the new strengthen the digestion and blood will nourish and re-energise the whole system. For making new blood, and as a cure for in- digestion and stomach troubles, Dr. Williams Pink Pills have proved their value in thousands of severe cases.

and it is as well as the remaining towers customary to own "half a horse," and what not afford a remarkable on new life, and in a short time meaning that the cost of upkeep study of the science of fortifica- baldness was definitely forestall is shared with another person, tion. The Yedo Castle, which we od. Before the experiment much who rides the animal every other later came to call the Imperial of the cutting had been done day. There is a fair golf course, Palaces of Tokyo, is a rare exam-when the moon was on the wane, in discussing Chinese politics and a race course with semiannual ple. Particularly, the Kikyo and therein lay the trouble, he literature and art in Poking. An meets, tennis courts everywhere, Gate, from the historical stand-firmly believes. American journalist who has and in the winter skating is the point alone, deserves to be pre-

There were 1 number of been following international most popular diversion. And served.

sceptics in his office, including politics for the last thirty years always, when there is nothing

"In Italy and France, palaces Customs Officer James T. Wells, in the Far East complained else to do, one may "walk on the bitterly of this characteristic of wall." A yer r ago it was possible and castles built in mediaeval who sits across the desk from Mr. Peking society. He expressed to walk fourteen miles on the times are being kept as far as Morgan. Some time ago, the the desire to get back to Shang-city walls. "But the Chinese possible to this day with painstak-"going, going, gone

I spend my working day have closed their portion of the ing care. To my way of think-started in for Mr. Wells. He discussing politics," he explained wall, and the walk has beening, means should be devised looked with envy on the luxuri- diet guide, sent free on receipt of

whereby historical reminiscences ous, curling locks of Mr. Morgan "When the day is over, I want limited now to about two miles can be preserved as far as possible, and asked him how it was done, postcard directed to the above,

But there is no chance of getting it in Peking. In the afternoons there is quite a since there exists an organization Morgan told him.

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relaxation.

go out to dinner, and the pretty girl on my left, who should be thinking about dancing or racing, plunges me into an earnest discussion of the relative merits of Feng Yu-Hsiang and Chang Txo-Lin, or begins to tell me nii about the policy in China, of Japan or Russia. I never stay here any longer than I have to. I go back to Shanghai, where the pretty girls know nothing about Chinu and care less. They havo their minds on higher things."

GLORIES IN "SHAME". Nevertheless, Peking glories in "hame." Men and women

alongside the Legation quarter. promenade of men, women and children on the broad ramparts of the Tartar Wall, well above the noise and confusion of the city, entirely away from its persistent odors.

Circumstances have compelled Fur Eastern cities to build up a foreign communities in various distinctive typo of social life, and one city. absolutely differs from the 'others in this respect. But no one in the other cities will deny that' the foreign intelligentsia" of the Far East are most úbviously represented in Poking.

purporting to the preservation. of such historical places."

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To-day, Mr. Wells can run his fingers through a crop as luxuri. Three other gates, namely the ous as that of Mr. Morgan and Ote. Sakashita and Sakurada all because he now consults the which were bally damaged by almanac before visiting a barber. the Great Catastrophe of 1923, Unloss the moon is just right, he have since been repaired, and are, lets it grow, he to be preserved to all intents and

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John Rogers, another customs: officer, also is a convert. So, is is A. E. Steiner. Both claim they have warded off off the day of baldness by the simple process of culting their hair when the moon is right.

"Be sure the almanac showe's fall moon and then go ahead." Mr. Morgan says.

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