Show SUNDAY MORNING MAY 8 3 TH r THE SALT LAKE EAKE TELEGRAM S 5 SK K 1 JOYRIDE THE WORLD I C Copyright 1920 by the Wheeler Syndicate Inc WITH DOROTHY 1 I DIX Worlds World's Highest Paid Woman Writer Writer reached kong Hong about 9 ock k at night and it was like sailing I The Th harbor Is one of at most beautiful ones in the world 1 Ills Is Is' crowded with th the shipping of Jt f the seven seas torn Tom the deck of at our boat we could Ithe low lying old Chinese city of ofIl Il loon on across the bay and shadowy shadow rids ds in the dim distance while whUa all und us loomed the mysterious of other boats from far ports right before us gleamed the city scintillating mass of ot lights rising tier like the galleries in m a a. a isn't really a I r Tat at t all It is an island one of ot Er Ergis Erg Erg- 1 is flung far possessions and its itol city is named Victoria after late great queen But nobody ever city by its name world over means the great port the je island he city rises abruptly from the theer theer's theer's er ers er's s edge in a series of ot shelves On I lower one along the Bund are the I ui mess iness ss houses of the better betterson sort son and great shipping offices Then come hotels and the shops for or selling sand and and china and curios On the thedie thedie thedie die shelf the Chinese are crowded subway passengers In a rush hour on the top shelf shelt live the English hese various arlous shelves are connected lights of steps and roads that dou- dou back and forth like a corkscrew w in to make the grade and one house home above another that the teo is looking down ones one's hb 3 chimney The latitude of is almost exactly that of or Orleans There Is the same semi- semi cal ical growth and many of the f- f fr fr- r- r residents who have amassed great tines anes in trade live in veritable pui- pui et t in the midst of palms and let top of th the mountain to whose the city clings is called the tha Peak Bhe Bs Its s reached by an incline railroad l that it makes you hold your our th tho At the summit of at the Peak feal l located a fine hotel and many residences The view is mage magent mag- mag e ent lt sweeping the city and the bay fd id d with Islands and the m laC hips from the far places of ot the are ceaselessly com coming in and 1 IT OF ENGLAND AT ATNA'S ATNAS ATNAS ATNA'S ATNAS ATNA'S NAS NA'S EDGE tir firt t flavor of ot is pure- pure You feel that you vou are hack oar r old Lunnun when you when you meet at turn lanky Englishmen with cles in their eyes and bulldogs on s s. s i and women with blouses that fi f jn in n the back and flat heeled s and wearing that unconcerned bout abOut b ut they ther look that nothing t th the grace of God or being born inand inand in inand and can give a woman l ien you plunge into the Chinese and see the Chinese thousands and hundreds of thou- thou f them and you ou begin to realize the he Ie foreign part of the city is s Just inge on the native part and you face to face with the Insoluble erv z of race rac race race-of of f how wherever he man man somehow dominates situation there are a great many manyi i educated and wealthy Chinese pad the great good fortune to be beed bel l ined ed in the homes of ot some of 11 Chinese inese have ave the social genius Japanese so far as my experience r fat at t least are poor con conversational conversational- versa and are arc not v what hat v We e call can l They are solemn and andus us and ponderous and have no nou 11 u talk talk anyway anyway none that they willing or able to hand out to a agn agn agn woman but the Chinese are arely ly adept ey y are so jO o simple So o unaffected so al so adaptable and th they y are I. I scintillating as conversational- conversational jl I never heard wittier table talk that hat at was was quicker in the give and han I heard at two or three din din- what hat I attended in China and I een lucky enough to know inti- inti ly many of the men and women are re the famed after dinner speak- speak d what wonderful English they hese educated Chinese who are of Oxford and Cambridge Harvard and Yale and Princeton Vassar Y-assar and Bryn Mawr Not t the theof of of an accent Every word well I Iw w the drippings from a I apparently as inexhaustible as the thery thery ry dictionary and that makes Suddenly decide to take up the theof i Jc of ot the English language when got pt t home INESE WEDDING PARTY e e of at th the most interesting of these ers rs was given in honor of ot a young I whose enga engagement ement was about to I The dinner itself was wasly wasly ly Iy Chinese and consisted of ot about one Jy-one one y-one courses but the hostess for the scanty spread She Shet Jt t was an impromptu affair got- got up up on the spur of at the moment In rj hat we the four foreign guests lJ be present Otherwise she would iad a full meal I gathered e Chinese use chairs and a a. a table- table I lad as we do and on the table 3 were flowers and sweetmeats U hie bowls of nuts and dishes dishes- seed of which the Chi Chi- r rare fare re Inordinately fond and which old ld ladles munch continually they hough though a foreigner never Plasters masters art of ot cracking them so as to get Iny my kernel out of ot them e dinner began with four tour little littles i S s of cold meat meat cold cold chicken npr ham and sausage After that every course two dishes con- con rig ng the different courses were d in the middle of the table and andl l these hese everybody helped them- them f s with their own chopsticks You a little at a time only a and kept repeating Every nd then the host would pick you bit tid-bit wIth his own chopsticks put it on your plate This was special compliment ere seemed to be no regular arment ar- ar ement ment of ot courses We had soup or r three different times during the theft ft also fish two or three different 3 st Then stewed partridge stewed and and so ao on We had the 4 L Chinese delicacies birds bird's nest which tasted exactly like our ca soup SOUR and is very good and ed sharks shark's fin which is very ex- ex Ive ise and arid Is as repulsive to our taste ur ur cherished terrapin Is to most We had year twenty-year-old are a dark green in color have haye passed through so many lical al changes that they have be- be odorless and I think would be ious Iou 1 if you could forget what they dinner dinner partner was a famous ese physician and he assured me they ey the b best st digester in the i r 1 world world and more potent poten than many soda mints The last course cours was rice a anice anice anice nice big bowlful of it and we were al already already al- al ready as stuffed as a Strasbourg goose but not to eat this Is a deadly Insult equivalent to telling your our hostess that her dinner has been an abomination with nothing fit for human consumPtion consumption consumption tion so v we e shut our eyes and gulped it down The young oung man who was about to become engaged was a civil engineer a graduate Of-an Of American university He was therefore an advanced Chinaman Chinaman Chinaman China China- man and atho although gh his marriage had been arranged by his mother and the mother of the young girl he was to marry he was acquainted with her and had in reality selected h her r himself him him- self This is very unusual as ordinarily ordinarily ordinarily marriages are arranged entirely between the parents and the young people never nevet meet until after they are tied fast and tight WHERE WEDDING PRESENTS ARE A REAL PROBLEM The family explained to us the etiquette etiquette etiquette eti eti- eti- eti quette of a After the matter matter matter mat mat- ter is arranged the mother of the young man sends to the mother of ot the bride little sweet cakes Sometimes as many as worth are sent though part of this gift may be sent in whisky whisk or wine if the girls girl's mother so sug sug- The brides bride's mother then distributes distributes distributes dis dis- tributes the little cakes or the liquors among her friends to whom this peculiar peculiar peculiar pe pe- pe- pe culiar gift conveys the tidings of her daughters daughter's engagement The brides bride's mother in return sends to the bridegrooms bridegroom's mother as many fried cakes as she has received sweet cakes and these are in turn distributed distributed among the bridegrooms bridegroom's friends as asan asan as' as asan an announcement that he is to be mar mar- ried ned The brides bride's mother must send exactly as many cakes as she received and when the brides bride's mother asks much it is an Indication that she is going to give glye the girl a very handsome dowry As soon as the marriage is arranged the man sends to the girl presents of Hong XII A 01 g-A g A City Built in Shelves I i. i H I J t. t A 4 0 o. o 0 moo 0 i I 00 1 o 00 e 00 p pO r 0 a i f r- r 9 1 I 1 ji i I t. t r J 0 I o 0 4 o 0 0 r T I U 9 e UM c cU U U 0 U n I U Ua a 4 U k P I if- if Ii HI U Harbor silks and embroideries and clothing She sends to their future home furniture furniture furniture furni furni- ture linen bedding and household utensils On the wedding day she is carried to the b bridegrooms bridegroom's house Ina Ina in ina a closed sedan chair that looks like a Christmas tree It Is a shaped pagoda-shaped affair covered with gold and silver ornaments ornaments or or- nam and blue and red flowers made of kingfisher feathers and is a gorgeousness to behold If the wedding is a smart affair there theres is s a band of musicians and a long procession procession procession pro pro- cession of friends and relatives When the he bride arrives at the gate or the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of her new home the bridegroom comes to meet her and unlatches the f portal and leads her in Then he re removes removes removes re- re moves her veil and sees her for tor the first time They worship together be before before before be- be fore the tablets of ot his ancestors and she s his parents with tea The next day they go to the temple and make offerings and that night they give ghe a great feast to their friends often at some tea house where their names are put up in electric fights lights over over the door like tb the names of ot actors over the theatre When the bride arrives at her husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hug bands band's home after they have sacrificed I to his ancestors they kowtow to each ot other Superstition has it that the one f 0 V V 7 d ow j cIl I j v 4 S 7 4 l 1 The bound foot of a o. o Chinese woman I who kneels first will be the one who is bossed and so ea each eath h tries to Jockey I the oth other r into doing it until someone from behind forces the brides bride's head down After the couple have been married three days th the wife goes goes' b back Ck to visit I her parents and the husband must send with her many roast pigs pils as a present to his In This custom originated In the buying of wives when the man agreed to pay for tor his wife Ithe if It he found her virtuous Otherwise he returned her home WHERE WOMEN GET THE BEST OF DIVORCE Divorce is common In China and men do not have it altogether their own way A woman who does not get along with her husband may leave him and go back to he her hc parents and he can neither force her to return nor divorce her for it He can only divorce her herfor herfor for tor In China a man may have one legal wife and as many concubines as he can afford to support The No 1 wife is the one selected for him by his parents parents parents par par- and is of ot the lady class The concubines concubines concubines con con- he picks out for tor himself and they may be of low caste but the children chil chil- dren of the concubine are all accredited accredit accredit- ed to the lady wife and call can her mother while they call their own mother aunt A woman who has no children often orten forces her husband to take a concubine so that she may have sons to honor her and worship at her tomb when she is dead There is much discussion in China about the effects of the concubine system system tem tern upon national life Some hold that concubinage is largely responsible for forthe forthe forthe the lethargy of the men in high positions positions lions that It paralyses energy and drugs ambition to sleep Others de defend defend defend de- de fend it Speaking of it one of the greatest Chinese statesmen said to me Concubinage simply means that a aman man mn accepts responsibility for his acts The concubine has a respectable place in society as the mistress has lias not She shares with the first wife In her husbands husband's husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- bands band's estate and may not be thrown ou out t when a man tires Urt's of her as a mistress mistress mistress mis mis- tress so often oCten is Her children are le legitimate legitimate legitimate le- le and share equally with the children of ot the first wife in their fathers father's fathers father's fathers father's fath fath- ers er's property I recognize that the modern thought of ot China is against concubinage espe- espe I I S P-S The Peak dally daily among the Europeanized young people but I doubt that China will be beas beas beas as healthy and moral when it adopts the Western Vestern idea on the subject as it itis itis is now But I inquired how do you solve the eternal problem of Jealousy Involved in involved involved In- In in the one man and the two or thre or more mere women Hundreds of ot years of training In hi that line of thought have made the women accept it all as a matter of or course and coincide happily in the arrangement arrangement arrangement ar ar- ar- ar so there is no friction in a Chinese household where a mans man's wife and his concubines live together in peace and affection he replied Later on I learned that this eminent statesman and eloquent defender of ol the concubine system had married as his second wife his first wife wife- having died a brilliant young woman the I I graduate of ot an American college and that she made It a condition of marryIng marrying marry marry- ing him that he should send his many I concubines away to an estate he owned I far Car in the country So evidently it I takes more than a few hundreds of years of thought along any line to eliminate jealousy from a womans woman's I I system and make her willing to share her husband with other women Speaking of or Chinese marriage customs customs cus cus- toms reminds me rue of an amusing story I cus-I that I was told and that aptly illus mus- I the old China into the new In China a a. man often has two legal fathers his own father and anda a foster-father foster for it is customary for tor fora tora a childless m min man ln to adopt some boj bo relative rel- rel aUve so that he may have a son sn to worship before his tablets Both of these fathers have the right to arrange a a marriage for their mutual son In Inthe Inthe inthe the case in question both of these fathers did so and they picked out different dif dif- ferent ladies The two new wives to start started d out for Cor the mans man's house assuming ot course that the first to arrive arrhe would be bethe bethe bethe the one to get the prize One w ni Inan Inan in inan an automobile the other in the J regu regulation gu- gu lation laUon bridal chair Naturally the lady of at the auto won out but the other lady contested her claim to the man in the court and the court sustained her rulIng ruling rul rut ing that an automobile was subservient nt of ancient Chinese usages and customs cus CUI- toms and no fit and proper way for a bride to journey to her husbands husband's home So the chair triumphed and pr presumably t mably m- m ably they lived happily ever after aften TO PLEASE THE MEN In as everywhere else else- In China you see thousands upon thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of women hobbling around around on their poor little stun stunted ted feet There Is a 3 general impression that foot binding binding binding bind bind- ing is no longer practiced in China Nothing |