From Ove The students in the local government schools jad a great time at the Confucian festival. Schools stopped for two weeks and big preparations were made to do homage' in no mean way to the great. sage of China, The central government building was artistically de-crated following very much the decorations of the local French Mission at Christmas time. Inside end out, flags and banners, and bunting of every description gave the building a highly festive character. After the sacrificial rites had been duly performed and all had respectfully paid honour to China's great sage, the teachers and scholars gave themselves up to having a three days' show. Tibetans and Chinese, and these who claim descent from both, flocked to see the wonderful performances given by the students. Three pieces were staged and apparently to some ad-_ vantage as the audience showed their appreciation in no dismal way.
The first theatrical performance was the new play entitled, sent the way that Europeans capture Chinese women in Shanghai and marry them. Now as "Marriage by Capture" is not unknown on the steppes of Tibet and as this form of matrimony is much more interesting and exciting, the woollies of Lamaland infinitely prefer it to any other form of marriage. Stealthily to capture your bride, have hair-breadth escapes getting her home, to guard her day by day th see that her people do not come and carry her back again, thi to the wild and woolly nomad is the summum born of a highly successful marriage. They failed, therefore, unless it was surgically. explained to them, why and how. Europeans were cruel in adopting this romantic form of marriage. honour had been paid to the ancient sage, simply revolved itself. into 4 theatrical performance, with the latest and newest plays. The head~ master of the government "school very kindly sent us a letter telling not to be disturbed about the! Plays as the students In playing them "had "no "malice pretence." There is such a mixed population here on the frontier where absolute Purity of race is rather a dificult question that we are somewhat me clined to believe in the headmaster's sincerity. "The. theatrical perfor nce, it it did anything, gave the Tibetans a keener apprecia of Europeans, The Shanghai Riots Some foreign clothes were procured and the persons dressed a lo foreigner were armed with guns and were depicted firing on a defenceless, most of whom, if not all, were harmless school boys. Naturally a number fell and their supposedly dead bodies were ruthlessly grabbed by the foreign-dressed boys and carelessly thrown it the latrine—what effect this had on
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