CHINESE VILLAGERS
REVIVE OLD RITES TO
PLACATE EVIL SPIRITS
FOOCHOW, Mar. 25—(AP).—The
Chinese yeay just closing being the
“year of the rat when all evil in*
Tuences are most potent, lecent
mouths have seen the greatest re
vival of the rites of “puo-do” within
the memory of any man now in Foo
chow.
“Puo-do” are special and most
elaborate prayers offered for the
outcast dead who are supposed to re
turn and plague the living when pray
ers and offerings are not present
ed for them.
Every five or ten years villages
and cities in north Fukien observe
these rites for protection against an
gered and injured spirits, but this
year, being also the first of a Chin
ese cycle of 60 years, altars have
been set up in scores of places in
and around Foochow and priests
are chanting their prayers.
Usually from five to 20 elaborate
ly decorated altars are erected in
temples or private houses, depend
ing upon the population of the vil
lage or town. Special plays descrip
tive of possible punishment in the
hereafter are given, sometimes by
use of puppets in miniature, some
times by life-size papier-marche im
ages operated from beneath the
stage. Huge mounds of cakes are
provided as offerings, usually ac
companied by feasts for the living.
The least ornate of these village
celebrations cost some $500 and fre
quently the cost mounts to many
thousands.
The “puo-do” is said to be a Fukie
nese rite, and the village of Uong
dong near Foochow, reputed to be
the original home of the ancient
custom, witnessed a celebration last
ing seven days. People from all
the region around, including scores
of Buddhist and Taoist priests, ga
thered in the village and the nightly
crowds numbered thousands. A mod
ern and western note was injected
j into the age-old observance by the
I bright lights furnished by a port
able electric plant in place of the
customary dim yellow lights of can
dles or the dimmer gleam from buf
falo-horn lanterns.
Trick Steamer Will Elude
Low Bridges on the Spree
BERLIN, Mar. 25.—(AP).—Low
brdiges span the river Spree, and in
terfere seriously with the passage of
excursion steamers loaded with holi
day makers from Berlin. Hence a
new steamer is being built, to car
ry 1.000 passengers, that will be
equipped with large tanks which,
when filled with water, will sub
merge the hull sufficiently to pass
under the lowest bridge on the riv
er.
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Vassar Reports Radical
Changes In Last Decade
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. Mar. 25.
— (AP).—Ten years have wrought
vast changes in the characteristics
of Vassar college students, charts
prepared by the college office show.
In 1910 a total of 58 per cent of the
students prepared for Vassar in pub
lic high schools and only 42 per
cent in private schools. By 1920
the public schools were furnishing
35 per cent.
Registration lists in 1916 were
closed two and a half years before
entrance. Students entering in the
classes of 1925 were registered four
and a half years in advance.
Quite as extreme changes were
found in subjects required for en
trance. In 1S65 entering students
were examined only in algebra, La
tin and French. In 1920 five sub
jects were required and 12 were on
the alternative or elective lists.
America Shares In Spoils
of Noted London Mansion
LONDON, Mar. 25—(AP).—Th e
work of demolishing Devonshire
House, for so many years the home
of the Duke of Devonshire in Pica
dillv, is nearing its last phase, and
except for the great marble stair
case, practically everything worth
preserving has been moved to a new
home.
Two of tlite four famous urns have
been sold to James Burden of Long
Island and the other pair have gone
to Sir Philip Sassoon's house at New
Barnet. One of the greate gateways
also will go to New Barnet and the
other entrance gates, with two lod
ges, have been shipped to the Uni
ted States.
The Duke of Devonshire has re
tained many decorative features
such as doorways and mantelpieces.
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Widows Add New Burden
To Patient Taxpayers
LONDON, Mar. 25.—(AP).—Brit- j
ish war widows seem loath to take j
unto themselves a husband for the ,
second time and, because of this j
coyness, the British taxpayer has to
suffer.
When the ministry of pensions
submitted its budget in March, 1924,
for the amount of money to be paid
in pensions to war widows, it esti
mated that seven per cent of them
would remarry during the year. Un
fortunately the calculations were
wrong, for, up to the present time,
only four per cent have discarded
their widows weeds. Consequently
the exchequer has had to grant an
extra $10,0fl0,000 to pay their pen
sions.
Lack of Snow Curtails
Finland’s Buying Power
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar. 25.
— (AP).—The unusually mild winter
weather which has been experienced
for the last few months throughout
all the Baltic states, has had far
reaching effects in Finland, especial
ly on the timber trade, which has
been seriously hampered. Wide
spread unemployment has brought
diminution in the purchasing power
of a large proportion of the people,
and a reduction in the market for
commodities.
Finnish timber handlers depend
upon snow for hauling, and usually
during the winter season find the
rivers swollen by floods, making it
possible to float timber to market.
This year hauling has been virtual
ly impossible, and only in the north
and east has the lumber been got
ten out without the greatest diffi
culty.
England’s Foggy City
Sits for Its Picture
LONDON, Mar. 25.—(AP).—Air
planes flying high above the city will
shortly make 1,000 photographs for
the purpose of making a big air map
of Greater London. The pictures
will be fitted together to form a vast
mosaic, giving a birdseye view of an
area of 100 square miles.
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Alice’s Little Dark Shop
Still Sells Hard Candy
OXFORD. Eng., Mar. 25.—(AP).—
The demolition of the row of an
cient shops and houses adjoining
Christ Church College, on SainT
Aldate’s Street, has at last let the
light into the “little dark shop’’ over
the way where Alice looked “all
I around,” in spite of the annoying
old sheep with the knitting needles.
It is a tiny shop, below street lev
! el. set in the end of a long row of
| timbered cottages running back from
the narrow arched entry called Lit
j'tlemore Court. The door, the coun
| ter, the projecting windows with
! small, square panes are today ex
actly as they were in 1*71 when Sir
■ John Tenniel looked in “Through
I the Looking Glass,” and drew the lit
| tie dark shop for Lewis Carroll’s
! classic. There is no sheep in tin*
■ corner, and the dolls and toys hav*
i moved along down the street, bur
| the jars of unbreakable candy still
i hold their proper places in proper
i rows.
A little way up the opposite side
of the street, in a projecting wing
i of Christ Church, Lewis Carroll, the
; Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
! foundation scholar and lecturer in
| mathematics, lived as an under
i graduate, and later as a don. His
life was a curiously double one. As
the Rev. C. L. Dodgson he is known
| as the author of works on trigouo
; me.try, determinants, Euclid and “cu
; riosa mathematics.” As Lewis Car
j roll he once wrote a book on sym
| bolic logic, but he is rather better
j known as the creator of “Alice’ and
! the “Looking Glass,’ ’and “TKfe Hun
I ting of the Snark.”
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