| Show YOUNG RULER OF CHINA HIS 1118 FAIRY FAIRYLIKE LIKE PALACE GREAT CHANGES ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE the outside ot of the emperors palace all that any european has ever sees seen of it since the days of marco polo is ideal a fairy palace high walls shut in the forbidden city a moat surrounds them teem a and nd then there are uie glistening y yellow tiles the roofs built by the old fd mongols in imitation of their tents then there re is the green hill with its trees mud ad the palace roots roofs climbing up it the entrances are of deep blue bright green golden dras drag boned witla with here and there a touch of vermillion the sky is blue above tte sun shines and there in the roadway sits a child stark naked its lac fac so dirty that it is impossible to lo see what it is like ith head bead misshapen with dis dia ease no wonder the present emperor never dever cares to come outside and ts s supposed never to have done so the he world inside must be more delightful if it matches with those glittering fairy roofs report does not speak well of the young emperor he is described as unwilling to learn sickly and forward very ready to fling flin things at peoples beads if di displeased andalio and altogether cut out to commit some great loll 1011 folly it if he ever becomes beedles really the ruler of ahina china he receives the high officers of the empire kneeling on their knees he be alone sitting in state but behind a curtain sits the reigning empress hearing all and really ruling china the fathers and the sisters of st vincent de paul who alow alone B of christian missions have for centuries nestled under the palace walls and who ol of late years built themselves a charch to high towers the empress strongly objected are now moving into other quarters and it is said the empress intends to occupy the lathers house and to use the church as an andi audience ence hall ball in which to receive foreigners if this last bit of gossip be true irue peking may shortly isee sec great changes she has particularly asked for the organ to be left and the high towers from w v aich if not as now walled up you could inspect the palace garden she sav s now no w that she has always been fortunate alace they were built this little incident may perhaps illustrate the chinese state of mind the chinese minister lately accredited to a leading european court was taking leave or 0 a very em anent englishman mud aud pitying him that his wife had gone to england edgland for the education of their children said you yon must be very lonely but of course you have a number two 1 I tried to explain to him said the englishman that that was quite out of the question my wife would be in a great rage if 1 I took a second wife and my govern government would punish me severely 11 the chinese diplomatist was astonished but after a pause he said you yon europeans have so much more intercourse with china now that we may hope you will soon become sufficiently civilized to act as ye ve do in this spirit the chinese diplomatist started for europe and in this spirit he will probably return pall mall mail gazette Ga zelte |
