An attempt to acclimatize to this country a Chinese silk moth was made in Battersea Park this week by Mr. Cartwright Farmiloe, of Tilehust, near Reading. Mr.' Far-mile released some hundreds of fully grown caterpillars of the moth on 19 some of the ailanthus trees, of which thor are several isolated specimens in the park, near the superintendent's office. He said that if the present month remained warm there was quite a possibility of the incect's establishing itself. silk, moth had lo its appearance at a London ind in. it is depicted the Mandarin—who really. never exists!—It is the story of a young Englishman who betrays a and leaves her. As. father Li Hung, strangles mother, and then' thirers for revenge for 30 years. He desires that the father of the young fellow who betrayed his. daughter should Jhe foreed to kill his con, even as he had himself murdered his daughter. The great scene of the piece occurs when Ronnle—the illegitimate son "ignorant of the details of his rth and believing -himeelf merely the protege of Li Hung, is told who Jhe really is. The obvious thing is for him to hate his father for the wrong done to his mother. He has, however, neither the Chinese nor the European sense of honour, and his fury against his father is caused the discovery that he himself is partly yellow. Li Hung's desire eventually becomes true, and the father shoots himself and his son; whereupon Li. Hung gives way to his immortal longings, by, killing himself with a dagger. The play was very well received by a numer~ ous congregation resolved—we hope [when next they visit China not to Go as the Engfish do! Of course, these Oriental plays are extremely, exaggerated, and are all more of Tess. based on the type-of "Mr. Wa." Such tragic happenings rarely happen in real life between the East and West—in these, days.
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