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MEANING OF "MARU,'

A POPULAR MIS CONCEPTION,

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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 16, 1926,

PEERAGE AND STAGE. Ket's cousin, Lady Patricia Black Riveré, daughter of Lord Forator,

"wood, daughter of the second who was Governor General of. Marquess of Dufferin and grand-Australia until last September. daughter of a Viceroy of India, She is. to net in Barrie plays in went on the stage a few months Australla under the management ago under the name of Pamela of Dion Bouclenult. Dartrey. Sho first did a brief

OLD-TIME POSITION

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BIBLES IN CHINA.

· LAST YEAR'S RECORD.

The largest oirculation of What is the meaning of the A traditional fact about the tour in Australia in "The Cabaret Miss Grizolda Hervey, a member Scripturon in its history, despite terin "Maru" applied to Japan-London stage which every one Girl" and then appeared in Lon of the Marquis of Bristol's family disturbed conditions in various eso ships?

knows is that every now and

don in "A Kiss for Cinderella" and cousin of Lady Grey of Fallo parts of the country and the This is a question frequently again an actress becomes # and in “Uncle Hiram's Here.”

den, had no doubt as to her wide-sproad anti-Christian move- asked by the public and it is peerosa-that is, some nice young

desires, for she was offered a mont, is shown by the China difficult even for a Japances, be lord falls in love with her, marries Among other society girls who choice of going behind the foot-Agency of the American Bible ho litorato or illiterate, to know her and carries her off to his have become professional lights and going to Oxford Society in ita roports for 1925, exactly what to answer.

ancestral mansion. This proce- Factresses дре Mrs. Konneth University. She joined Sir Frank The total circulation, 3,733,538, 18 The following is an explanation dure once was supposed to re- Barnes, the strikingly pretty Renson's school of acting, then an increase of more than a million given by a Captain of the N.Y.K.present something not quite daughter of Lady Cynthia toured with him in repertory and copies above the preceding year, Linos (Nippon Yuson Kaisha) comme il faur, and was frowned Graham, and Mias Pamela now is a full-fledged member of which exceeded all provious re- pioneers of the "Maru Boat" ser-on severely by dowager duchesses Boscawen, sister of Lord Fal- the Shaftesbury avenue. com- cords. A similarly large-circula- vices to Europe and the largestas diminishing the purity of mouth. One of the Hon. Pamela's munity,

tion by the other Bible Sooloties shipowners in Japan.

English aristocracy.

brings the total for the year in The "Maru" moans literally

Even the relations of the vener-China well over eleven million **Roundness," "Circle" or " Com- But times are changing. And pletences" and in ancient timos now, indeed, the London stage is

able archbishops are unable to volumes, as compared with less escape the lure of the stage, and than nine-and-a-half million the was added to the end of the name getting its revenge. It is taking of persons of noble birth, partien- peereases out of their ancestral

the Archbishop of York has a year before.

While reporting these largo larly to their precious sons, and mansions and making actresses

nicce, Miss Dorothy Barclay, who also to a part of the castle, the out of them. Only the stage is

has made a considerable success figures it is shown that the sale Matheson Lang, known to Ameri-of wholo Biblos and Now samo being considered of great more charitable about it. The

can moving-picture goers as well Tostaments has fallen off rather value and importance to the dowager chorus girl does not

as the London stage, is also a oonsiderably and that the in- family, or to the strong defence frown, cluck her tongue and

cousin of this same archbishop. oreases have boon only in single of the whole castle. For example, regret the diminishing purity of we find the term applied to per-the stage. For the stage is not

gospels which soll largely among sonalities in such names as

eities, Haretofore the students have been the largest single group of purchasers for Bibles. With the smaller anrolment in many mission schools and the abolition of required curriculum Bible study in a number of institutions, there has been a noticeable de- crease in the demand for whole Bible. Thore is no dis- position to accept this as more than a temporary condition-

ciousness and defence the

recent parts was as the maid in "Grounds for Divorce," and the very thought of a lord's sister on a London playing the maid

tage must have made ald Burke, compiler of the first revered "Peerage" there ever was such a person turn in his grave.

Both Miss Bosenwen and Mrs. Barnes renched their ambition as actresses with real wages via the.. Itoyal Academy of Dramatic Art.

the

Times have indeed changed. so conscious of itself.. It takes its But they are highbrows in com-It only remains to be seen whether the poople in villages and inland "Hitomaru" and "Kiyomaru recruits as they come and makes parison to Miss Dolores Mullens, sonic peeress-actress and to castles in such words aa

will we Houomaru Inner Citadel of social comments.

daughter of Sir John und Lady Mul- some impecunious playgoer and Castlo "Iohinomaru (First)

lens, and sister of Princess George carry him off to her ancestral The Hon. Eileen Plunket, second Imeretinsky, Destiny has inspired mansion, for then the cycle would Citadel).

sister of Lord Plunket, la a case' With the same meaning of pro- in point. During Christmas week her to become a chorus girl in be complete. Without doubt such favourite yachts, as constructed she appeared in a small part in The Blue Kitten." at the Gaiety procedure will never be the rule. Theatre, the self'same Gaiety The invasion of the stage by "The Blue Bird," and also under- by the Shagunute before the re-

which has seen so many of its young women of the aristocracy studied the leading lady. The storation of the Japanese

llon. Eileen is going seriously into thorus girls marry titles and points to two other morals. One Monarcho in 1807, wore con- sidered as floating castles and her new profession after u speil later, now and again, be divorced is that twentieth century young from them. Miss Mullens also women, no matter what their bore the denomination of "Maru" of hard study and preparation intakes her new profession moat rank, are less and less content not after their proper names, the the Royal Academy of Dramatic samo being given to other vessels Art and confesses that she aspirea seriously, knits her brows when to be leailing independent lives: precious to their owners for the to have a long career in "straight" interviewed and tells what a dear and the stage is finally breaking her father is not to oppose the down the last vestiges of the transport of merchandise and plays.

life of her choice.

unsavory reputation which has other valuablos.

dogged it since before the days of Footlight corpuscles, apparent- It is said that when foreign ly number pretty high in the

Still another recruit from the Shakespeare and the Globe vessels.us large to the eyes of the Plunket blood. For Miss Plun-peerage. is the Hon. Mrs. Pitt-1 Theatre. Japanose as castles afloat, first! visited the shores of Japan, to open up intercourse, they were called "Maru" and the assortion has been made by some people that the Maru", was likewise

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some seventy years ago, although! at the present time the term "Kan, meaning war vessel, is applied to the latter.

The "Maru" has now come to be applied to all vessls of a com mercial character from small craft such as steam-launches, fighters, soiling vessels, etc. to the largest ocean liners.

While it is impossible to trace the actual origin of the word, the foregoing may be taken as being the most authentic.

There are a number of other explanations and some may even be found in legends. One of these is that the word "Maro" was applied in former times to popular men of rank, such as the grout General Tamura-maro and tho prominent scholar Abeno Naka-1 maro and that in the course of me the Maro has become clang- ed into Maru and applied to one's favourite servants, pets, floating vessels, in fact anything precious to its owner-honce the Maru Boats.

Inasmuch as the term Maru meaus Circle. Completeness and in one way All-embracing, it is considered by some people to have been applied to ships on account of their running about the seas surrounding Japan..

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