'A. Leitao, the former 0. C. was in News." or Mancit 2, 1876 command' of No. 2 Group, and this Our Peking correspondent writes tlreumstance afforded him the oppor- th Feally been no cold weather 10 spee fie witter Is over and there has tunity for very close ce-operation About ten fakes of snow for works if the share folders are not thankful to the British with his old unit, In the spring of morning In December, vhich.
Government for. their recent purchase 1932, the President of Portugal, acting moisture 'Peking "has' experienced for they ought tobe, and if left alone on the recommendation of the Consul-{the last three-months. A. vanely" of they soo" soon will be. There are, of course, ing thing was not that Mr. Sweeney objected but that he found so little support and approval for his objertion, King Edward VIT died on a Satur day, May 6, 1910. When the House assembled the following Monday no attempt was made to adjourn. King Edward VIt- was popular, but the Trish question had entered into American domestic polities and agreement would have been possible fon a resolution which showed respect to the English Crown. The Senate general, Mr. Paula Brita, duly second. ed. by Dr. Bianchi, " Minister at Peking, conferred on the Portuguese Company a very especial distinction by decorating the Colours of the unit with the Cross of Officer of the Ordem Militar de Cristo, an award which Ihas never been conferred on any but units of tke regular army and navy.
The present. officers of the Portuguese Company, S.V.C. are:—Cap!. IM. F. R. Leitao, 0.C., with Lieutenants A. da Costa, J. R. Collaco and F 'M, F. Gutierrez as subalterns.
Feports have been current among' the Chinese "regarding the Emperor's health. He has lid small-pox, measles, typhola fever. Indigestion, sore' throat, anda number of other unpleasant aliments attributed "to. his" sacred person the fact being, apparently, That he has been a lift' out of sorts: There ts no other news of special Interest, except the removal. of "Yang Kusko from the Commander-in-Chief porte at Port Said and at Suez. There water communication betwixt these two ports, it ts therefore. possible to maintain these ports and to keep thi waterway open, but only By unceasing oda i as Europe "australia on the ether end, it may be worth White for Great Britain to keep both Crab grass, which grows big, fingers atop (and so is also called "Finger Grass"); Sodge grass which grows In the places where water stands; Stink Grass (the floral spikes of which do Goose grass, Foxtall, Bottle-brush, Awned Wheat, and all the other grasses down to the com: mon Bamboo Grass which we have adopted for our use. And as I boggled with the sclentifle name of that parti. cular grass (Zoysaipungens—or japonica it you like) I had visions of that day In March so soon to come when my lawn will look like a home for aged Chinese women—mixed with aereche for ditto bables—and when 1 shall say to the Chief Harridan, "cut and that, and that and wna Teave. only _that"—and will Blink at me through leery eyes and say "Yes, Head-oftheshouse, It shall de done"—and when I, knowing that it will not be done, will walk back into the house and will think to myself, "I wonder why God made the other' Afteon varieties, unless He was really trying to make things dimeutt:
February 29—The days of our weary waiting for the fullness of Spring drag drearily on, and I am forced back to my own diary entries for inspiration, I find that In a recent entry I referred to myself ax "ead of the house" and that T had quite unconsciously translated this phrase from the local Chinese ¢x-pression "Toong-ka" it intrigued me fo wonder how such an expression arose, and so T went into solemn conclave with my gardener, my houseboy and other experts in order to unravel the problem, Taking thing? backwards, as one must always do in. China, "I realized that the "ka" merely means house or home: but this left me with the "toong" which Is 's0. seldom written in the sense indicated that it needs somebody like a mafoo to.unwind the problem... rather than a sinologue who would only et mixed up with meanings dating. back to B.C—and all that, The whole point of the story seems to be that that "Tong" means East and that the Chinese do not say South, West" they say "East, We oF, even more logically, "East, South, West, North"....the reason being that the sun rises in the East, goes to its highest point in the South, sets in the sand is nin the North. "So when my coolie or weed! lady refers to me as '"Toong-ka", am being paid a high compliment fam the light of life which controls their world—symbol of the rising sunt Tam the high-spot of the household.,..the ruler of destinies....he-who-must-be-obeyed. How delightful to have a language which can say so much in two syllables!, But, by the way, T have not told the wife about this,
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