Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Where Love Is Secondary.

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1895 A conspicuous difference between the English and Chinese dramas is explained by the fact that, whereas in the former love holds a leadi...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Printing in China

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1895 Shun Pao, Shanghai Daily, Has Eight Pages of Thin Rice Paper. Shanghai is China's chief port and contains about 400,000 inhabitants...
Friday, May 30, 2008

The Telegraph In China

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1895 Outing says that at first the Chinese were very bitter against the telegraph, as it was reported the foreigners cut out the tongues of ...
Friday, May 23, 2008

The Walls of Peking

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1895 The outer wall is about 27 miles in circumference. It was built centuries ago of mud and bricks. The inner and outer face are of the la...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Clever French Potters

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1895 They Imitate the China of All the More Famous Makers. Entering a china shop recently, I asked the dealer the price of a small and very ...
Friday, May 16, 2008

The Meek and Mild Chinaman

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1895 The Chinaman, although proverbially meek and mild, is a man of dauntless courage and unflinching fortitude. Voyages over vast tracts of...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Our Day On Earth

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1916 Augusta registered its first Chinese voter this. year, Chin Bong, who runs a laundry there. He was born in Seattle 28 years ago and is ...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Stolen Tapestry Sold

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1916 New York, Sept. 18 — A Beauvais tapestry presented by King Louis XV. of France to Emperor Kien-Lung of China in 1766 and looted from th...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

Helpless China

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1916 Mr. Boyce's Talks Japan has served a new set of demands upon China. Taking advantage of the fact that most of the world is at war, ...
Monday, April 7, 2008

True Sports Never Die

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1901 Bicycling is almost as old as the present generation, golf is far older, though Americans in general seem not to have heard of it till ...
Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Before and After

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1910 The young Prince Tsai-Tao, during his visit to America, welcomed criticism of Chinese customs, and retorted politely with counter criti...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Chrysanthemums

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1910 Chrysanthemums stand fourth in commercial importance among flowers. Only the rose, the violet and the carnation surpass them, and that ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Memorizing Poetry

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1903 To economize time in memorizing a poem it should be read as a whole; that is, entirely through each time. Tests made in psychological l...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Canton and Its Population

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1878 A correspondent writes from Canton, China, as follows: As we arrive in front of the city the famous boat population presents itself. Th...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

How "All Men Are Born Equal"

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1905 The woman born beautiful doesn't bother to educate her intelligence, is spoiled by flattery, is unable to hold the men she attracts...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Puzzles in Chinese Names

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1900 "When I went to school I was always at the head of the class in geography," said the Studious Citizen. "I could 'bou...

How to Cook Rice

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1905 Physicians and others who have eaten rice cooked by a Hindoo, a Chinaman or a southern darky must have remarked the difference between ...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Gossip About Women – "The New Woman"

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Feb. 1896 Ella Wheeler Wilcox believes in reincarnation. A training school for waitresses is a new Philadelphia institution. Miss Helen Culv...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

Chinese Fond of Swallow's Nests

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1896 Crocodile Steaks and Rats Of all strange foods that men have ever used, the one that seems most singular to us is the bird's nest u...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

A Remarkable Pilgrim — 103, Walks Long Way, Fails

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1900 Aged Woman Determined to See Paris Exposition An almost incredible story comes from France of the resolution and energy of an old Alsat...