Show where china Is st still I 1 11 ll in the lead le ad every year brings to Us some marvel from its ancient civilization washington whistles for pageo pigeons ns Is an tinclent ancient Clil neso device which tho the united states army plans to try out in fasten fastening hig whistles to the tali feathers of messenger pigeons tile the army hopes to frighten oft off hawks pigeon pipes have long ions been used in china to protect the birds western civilization never ceases to learn from china arery year brings to the united states some ni from the treasure chest of Clil cainas chinas ancient civilization buys a bulletin troll from tile w washington D 0 headquarters of the nation a I 1 geographic society this alila year vo po tsat tsal or chinese call cubbage tins lias invaded even tile the chain gro aery stores of some american cities and the big red chinese Clil nese persimmons mona decorate the vegetable stalls this year n new uv knives ond and ointments ments blohin on drug drugstore store shelves sti elvea oa as tor for hay fever sut Terera and their es sentral element clement Is ma huang a drus drug used f tor or cent centuries urles in tile the par far gnat enst ma bla huang or aleal medicinal cinal gross grass grows wild in north chloo china and the exports of it to tile the united states have from nothing to bounds in 1027 china has also helped amerlean american cotton growers to determine fertile from infertile seeds according to a recent recommendation of the department of agriculture which approves the oriental practice of placing cotton seeds in water and only those which sink mah jonge the chinese come tins lias come and almost gone again but gutig tuns oll oil the preservative which has baa protected chinese Clil nese junks for and makes poss possible ible the tremendous chi nese houseboat house boat population now comes into tills this country at the rate of pounds annually valued at approximately so important has tung lung oil become to american industry that the department of commerce tins haa for a monthly cable report of prices at Ilan liow some soma probable chinese firsta nearly everyone knows the wore more famous discoveries like ilke guu gunpowder powder and printing other Clil nese firsts sometimes escape among them tire are india ink really china ink dom inoes silk tea lea playing cards dice encyclopedias chess dictionaries movable type porcelain rag wood and rice paper stone engravings certain lacquers artificial pearls gold fish stitched books chinese lanterns jade mines pekinese pekingese Pe kinese dogs chow dogs wa ter tight compartments for ships peaches Pre firecrackers crackers peonies and seismographs not to mention soy eoy sauce and hean bean sprouts and probably spinach onions cabbage green pens peas cucumbers cauliflower and eggplant in some cases the ultimate ancestry of these products and devices Is obscure though europe first learned of them from chinn china the writings of shen nua kua mention th the e magnetic needle in ill the eleventh century A D long beav beffre ra western civilization discovered it to tc bo be the key to thu tho cairo author gives tile the earliest description of printing with movable type there Is aso so good evidence that one tsal luu lun first made rug rag paper in A D vhf peking at izette which ceased publication in lim had been issued dully dally since about A D oud and thus was one of the oldest of newspapers alth although 0 ugh in tile the style of a 11 government nt bulletin some chinese Clil nese claim that their nhuon had the first well vell devel oiled postal system and the first air mall in support of tile the latter tradition the chinese postal ing flag bears the design of at a hying flying goose reeni ling that trained geese once were used to carry lues messages sages the chinese were also the first to use paper money printing of paper money in led directly to the organization of the birot bank at cichow about UW civil service tests for the select selection lIn ot of government began beall in HO U 0 mens alens leagues and even W oi a colleges late date back bach many centar les lea these facts and many others on chinas cainas civilization tire are obtainable because ot ancient books preserved preserve in ancient libraries silk goes back to dim past pact yet much of chinese Clil nese progress belongs to a past so dim thul fixing tile the discovery of silk in atoo it C and tho invention of the plow in ash B 0 and crediting the first to princess sl 81 ung clive the second to a mon imin named svennung Shen Sheri nung must be rated as mythical as aa the lie deeds of the knights ut the round hound table duven tile earliest contacts with europe are little known so many chinese discoveries appeared in europe immediately after genghis Geng lils khan struck farthest west that it elems probable he spread as ag well wa aa terror trade with china was so uncertain that thal hanese hl nese figured figu reil silks allks were called dab for damascus a halfway shipping PIng city chinese ink inh was knowland know nand still Is known as india ink with nothing more than bamboo pipes to work with the chinese Clil nese drilled salt wells wals 2000 nel feet deep years befort before occidentals dentals attained such depths with out scientific background tile the celestial lias been for rieb n es a successful fish breeder and he learned no one knoy liow how or when to feed tits isla soil eoll the proper erford food and to rotate lila ills crops with legumes which add ul nitrogen trogen to the soil |