The series of huge processions held in Shanghai and distlet within the past few weeks is an interesting Hign" of changing" times. Full well-intentioned. zeal, the Chinese authorities several years ago banned hem onthe ground of thole super. Hitious matures The police also bad which related to the wily charged politico atmosphere Home features. ofthe. procession. Sespeld last week centd be very well abolished, This applies especially to fie many cater of self torture and the bvidus suffering Inflieted on {he tiny children appearing inthe tabieatx But on ce whole "aves fy the sponsors of the "New Life processions, the incentive
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If the, Chinese. are to Indulge these thinge-and no resident of any fenuth of time in China will deny the extreme pleasure" the populace Fecejvet from" them=—then "Tet the people connie to hold them show Tong as they over the world people are showing greater interest pageants and deriving enjoyment therefrom. A little fatherly advice might be given to eliminate the undesirable features of these Chinese processions in the light of advanced ideas of human standards, but, the remarkable enthusiasm which marked the local processions Unmistakeable evidence of this huse torrent of mass feelling held in check for so many years and harmlessly dissipated,
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