"Starlight Fancy" is another poetic name said to have been eon ferred on a special species of ebry= anthemum by the Into Emperor aieiji and which prompted the peet= laureate of those days to comprse 2 poem which reads:— upwards to the Palco fed chryaanithemuns twinkling lustre of a star?
The same sentiment was express Inter poot-laurente, Now I can see chrysanthemums steam he Hace oh high neers ae tar That have dropped Fron the The chrysanthemum is often (vained and pruned into shapes fan! fui—men and gous, boats, bridge fund castles. Frequently, historical mythological scenes are repre= sented or some tableau from popular drama, Another noteworthy fuct inthe ion of the Japanese with flowers isthe intimate personal relation which, they' feel "towards all Ulossoms. "Gentle flowers, tear drops of the stars, standing. in earddens and nodding to the het ens" is how one poet apostrophises them, One of the facts in. whicl the lover of flowers takes n speci delight is that here flowers are never, however withered, thrown, carelessly upon rubbish heaps dumped unceremoniously into. the arbiyge cans they are given sepule fave beneath the ground or erennates fed, or, best of all, when it is poss sible, are placed in a little hand: wrought raft and Inunched on the boom of some running stream of, water, often to the accompaniment of some appropriate verse.
The final attitude of the Jupane towards the chrysanthemum, the national flower of the land and eme blem of the Imperial crest, is sume wed up in the lines of Baron Takésaki, a poet, who saysi— the tall ehsysanthemum leetest Hower on Tula Ar least five tourist trips pros ese to include Peking within the months. The first 1 the Empress of Australia which is due there in' Februar Whether these tours can actu wadi, comments the "Peking depends on the rest of normal traffic by rail.
Muatrens of the Manchu House ave reported by the vernacular press. to have approached the Peking atte thorities with a request that the of the persons arrested in con"
fon with the looting of the I perial Tombs should be expedited they are afraid that certain leaders who have been implicated will cape to foreign countries, where the willie out of the reach of the hinese Government, PRerarations are under way: to erect a skating rink at Ying Tai in the former imperial palaces, Ying Tai is a hall of historical interest, it was there that the Emyror Kuang Hsu was imprisoned after movement are surrounded by ating will not be pos sible on the lake of the Pei'Tai thi inter, as practically all the v ater there has dried up.
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