The Traffic section of thi ning and the scholar continues: 'This teller of tales. will now Pr ceed to recount one of the histori: s i of the Tang 'Dynasty of General' Sih, well-known to the well-informed audience which I behold." 'Then in li-turned phrases. and in -flowers' son of his parents, who was possessed of xo prodigious an appetite that in one day he ate five eat tion of rice, He did not speak until he was 15 years old, nor did he work at any profession, ainu ing himself with the practice' of the nillitary arts. His parents died early and soon the estate left him was exhausted because of the mands of his gigantic appetite, that he finally tried to commit suicide by hanging. He was, however, eat down by a man named Wong, who took him home and employ ed him ax farmer and hunter, making him work very hard, While in this pitiful condition' he chanced one day to 4 military official being ed by a tiger and perceiving the official to be in danger he caught hold of the tiger and beat it to death.
The grateful official made him officer in the army and he afterwards became of royal rank, and his fame exists to this day. "Now the swift motor-ear and the clanging tram are just like tigers, and if you do not take care to watch the constable at the corners and obey! his signals you will not live to grow: old and acquire many sons, but will be killed and your sons too, so that} your ancestral tablets will go untended. The Road is like a Tiger's Mouth} From its centre keep agree that it is better to attend, give: heed to the traffic regulations' than' to have one's substance depleted by. funeral processions which afford but, Scant pleasure to the person riding Municipal Police Force ad opted this means of instruct-the Chinese public in the traffic regulations in June, 1923, and the letters received from factory owners and tea-house proprietors indicate warm appreciation of the service rendered. The actual good accomplished cannot be checked, but it} believed that this graphic instruetion, given in the manner which To sve the expression on the face he story teller as he points his adorns his tale or in dales in some witty quip is as good as going to a. pantomime.
Ant How sti the suggestion of tragedy!
Those who feel with "Ulysses" who wrote in the Correspondence Column of July 24, that "nothing is done to train the natives to keep off the roadway," should follow—the course of this tale-teller, as he plies his trade busily every day, taking, the different polies atime, And this the only ving warnings by
ings or aphori wings are post-i lanations of raled all about town, and especially where the juncture of streets gives opportunity for accidents. Every time a new regulation is made new poster announces it and notifications affecting riesha coolies ars inted by the thousand for disbution. Br, Matheson receives 'a consignment of these slips and the regulations are explained at all the Riesha Mission meetings. Every accident is recorded on a chart and should any locality seem particularly dangerous, steps are taken to to safeguard' it; so that foreign, fs the utsanding, concern of an alert Trafic Department.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.