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BY T. PAUL GREGORY

T

About Hades

loh-wong, the Ruler of Hades himself.

Fa-kung, the husband is assisted in GRIN AND BEAR IT

his work of caring for the garden of | the world's future citizens by twelve youths, whom the Chinese dealgnate! as Ea-lung-tsz, or "Flower Boys," while Fa-p'oh has for her helpers the same number of fairies known as Fa-naal-neung, Or "Flower Wel Nurses," and an equal number of hold their appointments from Yim- Dry Nurses."

In mundane affairs, Fa-p'oh is also

are young children, there is a strino

THE belief that there

is a region of dark- regarded as the Goddess of Child- ness inhabited by the birth, and in every house where there spirits of the dead was a erected to her. Usually this la common notion among most the parent's room, and consists of a nations of antiquity. Thus tablet Inscribed with the name of this the ancient Greek mytholo- sort of lamp found here also, but

located under the foot of the bed in

feminine delty. There is likewise a

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of lengths of red and yellow paper, region situate not in the rolled into cylindrical shape and bowels of the earth, but on summed together, five or six plecer to one lamp. Although never lighted, the under side of the limits the old lamp is replaced cachi of the known world-bound- year by A new one, in token ed by an awful river, and that the favour and protecting care BANKS:—AL Malin, on October 20, ruled over by Pluto and his year to year. She is, however, mort

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1938.

YOUTH SPEAKS OUT While their elders are strug. gling with very mixed success to find A way through the dangers and difficulties of the world situation, it is cheering to

of the goddess are confided in fron

Proser-than the goddess of childbirth, but ulro the fairy godmother of children; for the goddess personally The Chinese have a similar or, through her assistants, acts as notion, and singularly enough, until

cuardian to every child from birth it attains its majority, In the fundamental ideas of the prayers addressed to her, she ancients of the Occident seem to generally referred to as Ch'ong-met be incorporated in their con-la-p'oh Tang foo-yan "Our Lady ception of the nether world. In Tang, the Goddess of the Foot of the Bed." Her husband, Fa-kung is also fact, with perhaps the sole ex invariably regarded as a deity of ception of the absence of a the bed chamber, and the Canton counterpart for the wife of ese prefer to designate him as Ch'ong- Pluto, the Chinese Hades, is in t'au fa-kung Lei Sz-paak, "Lel S7- The more one comparea. these the Bed." most respects atrikingly similar. paak, the Flower God of the Head of

two mythologies, one is convinc-

CHILD PROTECTOR

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"The first bump Indicates you are kind, the second says you have a sense of humour, and the big one indicates an unhappy home life!"

MR. PEPYS in

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ed that the idea of Hades and an

0th. October.This day very hot bronchitis, though the lungs bee underworld in general, is a sort It is, however, as the protector of after the storm and indeed it is not clear and $0 to two. days in of universal heritage, und barr, children that the Goddess Fa-p'ol is gensonable in October. I doe feel bed, when the thermometer reads 20 ing, of course, the inevitable dis- best known: for like the trish who mighty unwell and doc cat a hite in in the shade this being mid-October; have a beautiful myth that when an my office and, after ordering my and Lord how I doe curse the gious differences, practically cause angels are whispering in its dinner but gel mee to bed. identical.

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have created an even

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LTD. will fall upon their shoulders if imaginative conception of the nether Chinese people as a sure and cer- the picture bee but a sketch, dashed the garden but Lord! my

IGth.-Lord's Day and at work in

Old Briar Root

Perfect Cleaning Cool and Dry Smoke

15th-Somewhat recovered, but not car, the Chinese aver with equal

well and again a hot day. News of a sincerity that such smiles are due 7th-Somewhat restored in my serious invasion of Kwangtung from to Fa-p'oh who is talking to it in health, to my office and later comes Blas Bay and, as it seems, no resist the land of dreams.

the Baron with my picture of a

Ance. Watched cricket and later did chestnut colt which hee hath restor- dine with Mistress Monk

and her These happy smiles are, moreover, ed to a marvel. And hee tells mee, daughter, and so home early to bed. more highly regarded by the

of the as I had heard from my Mother, that world than even Homer in the in- tain sign that the father will become in it may bee half an hour or broke with the damage the storm heart is morial Odyssey; for like Dante wealthy; for us the Cantonese say: less, but most excellent from the

and then the fleres heat hath done. Alighieri in his celebrated Purgatorio, yar-sili ka-moon hot;

knowledge of the artist. And I dee Both my early sowings of lettuce are belleve it to bee true that Mr. H. gone and the radishes, too. Out of Hall was the leading painter of race every three sweet pea, needs, two be "At the first smile the family door horses in early Victorian times, hee dead, and I must sow all over again being a distant cousin by marriage and then bee late, even if the second of my Mother. With the Baron and sowing comes up. Mistress Barbara At the second, great wealth is Mistress Joan to the Iostelry to take to nuncheon und we take a dish of our nuncheon and I so merry as tea in the garden when, thanks bee to God, I doe feel a chill come in the

they have profited from the ideas of other peoples, and have created per- force their own distinctive conception

of the habitation of the dead. Their

Yi-stu feat-laai-ts'ol",

opens (to prosperity);

they accept the advent of a Chater Road. Next War in dumb acquiescence. The British Youth Peace Campaign, with headquarters at the same address as the League of Nations Union and supported by the Union's Youth groups

Ath-This day 1 doe wake with a sir. For now 1 can but hope to dos and University Branches and even into the world of the living. In sleeping babe, is that if the infant chill or rheum afflicting Bad Well with my bulbs, and this may

fact, according to Chinese

belief, sleeps in its cot with its hands re-whence it comes I know not. To the only bee if wee du have good culd Gouls of ail future of the universe

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underworld is not only a sort of shadowy realm where the spirits of the departed assemble after death, amosed.!

whose transcendental power extends connection with these smiles of the but also a more tangible purgatory Furthermore, the popular belief in never more,

also by the Youth organisations the

more

mc

in laxed, then wealth is surely to be a Races and did take nuncheon in Mr. weather. Before I did dine my are reward of the home; but if it sleeps Tang's box and all very merry but neighbours come in to drink a glasse or less in with Its asts tightly clenched, the i doc win nothing in the sweepstakes of wine with mee and I doe and that

anima- opposite is to be implied.

and Lord! doe wish I were clear they have had similiar trouble to of them. But if I doe drop a num-mine in their garden. ber, 'tis sure to win at the next: 17th. Very busy in the office. A meeting. Home betimes after the colder day and I doe feel somewhat

talk with my friends and back to

of the Liberal, Labour and habitants preserved Communist parties, has become the state of suspended during the last year or two for their birth into our

tion, awaiting the seasonable hour mundane

WEDDING CEREMONIALS vital and efficient part of the sphere. In short, the Oriental belief

In conclusion, one may mention

Better, but Lorul I am so thronged Is that every human being is re-

with business I have no leisure. peace movement.

presented in a sort of garden in the that the Flower Goddess and her Mecting and go to bed.

0th. (Lord's Day)-Abed all day underworld, and while this may be spouse are regarded as being capable

10th. This day to Government Among its latest activities arened to the so-called Garden of of bestowing children to a married and дя wretched as ever I felt House where Sir Robert Kotewall meeting is being planned to Proserpina, as celebrated by the couple, and as offspring is the Role blowing of my nose and so at lass doth receive his Letters Patent 68 Greek and Latin poets, there is a vast purpose of the Chinese conception of fell asleep after many asprins, and a Knight Bachelor and Mr. J. Taggart persuade the Government of its difference; for instead of there being marriage, it is Inevitable that these hot drink of limmon and honey. Is invested with the most Honourable

graves of sombre trees about the two popular deltics should occupy a

10th. This day I doo wake some-Order of the British Empire, while duty to stand clearly along palace of Yim-toh-wong, or the Ruler prominent place in wedding cere-what better and my chyrurgeon an Indian Officer doth receive a high with other peace-loving coun-of Hades, and fields of pale-flowered monials. In fact, on the marriage sounds mee and doth permit mee to order as well. After, much picasant Asphodel, the Chinese conceive of a night, after incense has been burnt go to the Races where I take my my office, but Lord! it is turned hot tries in defence of Czecho- real garden in which every living and libations poured out to the vari-muncheon in Mr. Coldbeck's box and again and I dos feel nane too well, Slovakia,

a representative plant ou gods and goddesses and their aid all as merry as usual-and some of and i minded that I need a holyday with his name written on the pot in and protection invoked, a married the Ladies more so, seeing their and some walking over the hills ixa In this connection its Emer-which it grows. Singularly enough, couple who have had several sons Lords doe return from the South in the open air.

lite and death are both explained in born to them, and hence called a It may be a week. My fortune la gency Committee has recently the behaviour of the plant; for if the ho-ming-kung-p'chi, or "fortunate as 111 as ever though I do make a telegraphed to the Czecho-Slova- latter Nourishes, the person it re husband and wife" are invited to pre-couple of wagers and win a dollar GUARANTEED kinn Committee of the World presents prospers, and if it dies, then pare the nuptial bed, and while they or two. Home very betimes and so

individual typified the

dies also, are

engaged, they Youth Congress Movement, do when these plants blossom, white is the following Invocation to the Fa-

kung and Fa-p'oh: of suns and red of claring its solidarity with them.unblematic

On October 25 a National daughters, a notion which is further "Fa-p'oh têm chuk sham kwong fat, explained by the fact that a common HO INNER BORING WHATSOEVER Conference of Youth is being if somewhat poetic

Fa-kung gung-taz to moon lat, Cantonese ex- pression for a youth is pock-ja-tsol Fa fast moon-tong ch'eng foo- "white flower son,” while a maiden is

kwal, resignated as hung-fa-nul "red flower daughter."

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Fa-kaan kit-taz tsol loh-wal”

10th-Again very unwell, and to the Hostelry at one of the clock when doo eat my muncheon with Mr. A. Joy-whom I have not seen these many days. There wee doe speak chanto bed.

together of the speed of the Japancso 11th. To my office but I am a sick dash upon Canton, which shall either man, and yet no fever. So what to prosper greatly in a few days or shall dee I know not. Mistress Asn to come to some great disaster, Later I did betake mee to his house where nuncheon at the Hostelry and after he hath a couple of pretty ladies and at my office and go home very besome gentlefolk, with whom

I have times and to bed.

much converse. And they doe doubt 12th. This day I doo feel even much of the strength of the Canton

defence, but of this we

we shall assured- worse, though no fever, and soe toly be certain in a few days. I looked Office where I doe pay my insurance everywhere for the dogge Martin but. This may be freely translated some polley and give Mistress Diana a it seems her hath had one of these what as follows:

posset and drink one myself, though hysterical fittes that puppies are It does me little good. Took my nun- wather and so is gone to the Jockey take at the end of the hot This garden is, moreover, under particular round such matters the control of a happy couple who in candles burn bright,

cheon with Mr. Coldbeck and his Club for nursing. But I trust he will na ARP., Voluntary National the scheme of popular Chinese belief

Lady at the Snukepit, but I cannot

roon bee home. So home, and, after Flower god, pray send sons this enjoy it and so, ordering matters as listening to the wiestem which plays Service, the Territorials, etc. sxart a tremendous influence, and home to delight,

best I may in the office, I home and Gilbert and Sullivan, to bed. And 1. There is also to take place, if there is scarcely a native of the

Middle Kingdom who has never Flowers filling with wealth and to bed where at last I doe find I have am somewhat minded to set aside my diary for a space, there being so it can be properly organised, a seard of them. These are the god honour the hall,...

fever and so to a very ill night,

much of other import of which I 13th-14th-Comes my Chyrurgeon must take notice. But how this khalj great Youth posco pilgrimago to Fa-kung "Flower, man" and his Flowers bearing much fruit on this

spouse Fa-p'oh "Flower woman," who bed to fall."

who tells meo I am sick of a bee I cannot "yet say, London

held at the Friends Meeting House, London, to declare the general attitude of Youth In the present crisis. It la expected that discussion will centre in

FLOWER GOD

"Flower-goddess, for theo ottr