What Their Home Life ix Really Like The following article concerning the modern. seamen. in. China, tat toritten by Bir. 0. D, Rawmussen the "Nex Chronicle":—all very. well your saying the Chinese are like us," exclaimed the Englishovoman to. me, recently; "but tell me: do. Chinese husbands and wives have rows?" I had been expounding my pet theme, some-that academically, T am afraid, and "audience" wanted facts, have never hidden in a great vase, or a boudoir Eunbonr, fastens bab New of Things and went back to mother being wife who packed up her
feauce, het hubby" stayed out playing. Ma-Chiang at. the club. [hed here was young chap Knew who got fed up because his wife wagect him for smoking cigars making the curtains *hat's enough," the lady inter-[red, coldly, TT sappoes, the ext you'll tell me is that they quarrel when a petting ready for a show, or gets frame to late from a bridge party get the supper, or because a husband finds the breakfast coffee cold, or he reads the paper at the fable?™ 'Yes, I couldn't think of all, those things' at once," I replied; "but T would have said: tea' instead of Don't they drink coffee?" she inquired.
"Very little; usually only when they entertain foreign guests."
"Do Chinese make love?" she conued; "I've heard that their mar-consulted, dowry fixed by patents, and all that sort of thing."
"Of course they make love,' angwercis "they always aid "if they. are so romantic how is that they have no roman litera ture?" I was asked, "But they have" doc riteratare teem with romance, Th have. scores of romantic dramas qual ie our best "The. story" of Yang Kuetfei the beastfelsingioo girl Who wae concerned in jovial ofthe. Ming Deas is the most appealing ove Stories inal iteratare, You should Berable'to gets copy of it from booksele "Do. they marry young, India a by Not under earlier. In the Ming Dynasty they fallowed engagements before, birth, Dut this was later prohibited."
"Can they be divorced and remarried?" she asked.
"Yes, Under the new code of Jaws there is equality. Under the old only the husband could get it. "There were two certain reasons, and five under special conditions "Why do some Chinese have English names?" came another quer; see so many alike, too; 1 can make head nor tail out of all the Changs"in the cablegrams.
"The name system is involved, but I'll be brief. 'The Chinese call themselves the people of a 'Hun-red Surnames,' although there are factually. about 440 different surnames, Naturally, they have their 'Smiths' and 'Joneses' in, the numerous 'Changs,' 'Wangs,' and "Li's" But while' their surnames are limited, their given names are mot, We are restricted to, ready-made John, Henry, Charles, William, toy but the Chinese have an infinite variety of combinations, After birth @ bay is given a milk' name, to be used by relatives and naig! hours. Upon going to school he is given a book' name, for his school mates and teachers. At_ marriage receives two more names, one '\'great" name for use by relatives, the other for use by acquaintances.
"When he pi te amination he "studio names.
If he, enters life he takes an name, and one is even added posthumously, if his life has been suftently. important or. worthy. All of then are Pacey aura, after Thus, if he be an eighth child, 'a boy might be called simply Wang Eighth. If he seems right to his teacher he might be called Wang Bright Wisdom, and $0 forth. "That, is why they get English names. The "book! name is given by_an English-speaking tea-her, a missionary, perhaps. Sometimes. the name is 4 phonetic, play {upon the: mille name; for instance, Chang Welling might be Angicized as. Wellington Chang,, with the Surname last, as with us."
One things Twas going to, ask you," said the Englishwoman, "if a Young man has a sweetheart, is.he allowed to call? And can ho take the pictures, or whatever they for entertainment?"
Yes, of course he can. The boys rot only may call, but also they take their sweethearts to the Talkies, buy them chocolate, ice-cream, and lemonade, and, possibly, tal to a decent dancing hall afterwards. There are hundreds of cinemas in China, Must they be back—the girls, I mean—must they be back home by a certain hour?"
their ear has not crashed into a tree, or there are no Ticshas of taxis, or it {sn't raining too hard to walk, the girls might be back home before one clock.
"And what happens if they don't iret back, until "all hours' of the morning?" my interrogator wanted to, know.
What happens in England?" 1 countered, "There would probably be a row," she replied, "Swell" I observed, and so there might be in China."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.