Here were displayed to the on-Jookers gorgeous silk garments, fi shoes, pillows, rugs, vases, a comforter and both gold and silver ornaments. These tables with their valuables were carried between two men, and, evidently, to make sure against' "'three-handed" individuals laying—unfidden hands upon any of the goods and articles mentioned and to make the glory more complete another company of cavalry closed up the procession. The parade naturally covered considerable space and to pess one point along the route took a long time.
The writer recalls how some yea: ago. when Gen. Ma An-liang's daughter was married off into th home of Ge the conqueror of the Tibetans in Labrang, a parado of this kind had to be called off on account of threatening rain. People had at that time had congregated from the countryside in order to view what was to be seen. This desire for pomp and self-glorification not. only is extant in weddings of this Kind, but also in funeral cortdges in this place.
'A movement has been started in England to raise a fund for Mile, Aline Dostoievaky, the daughter of the Russian writer. Mile. Dosievsky, left penniless by the Rus-months, sian Revolution, has been ill for
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