The ceremony took place in what is known as the Chuja caravansary, Jwhere Mandeville and. Roubin built {their skin boat, Nightmare, in which [they hoped to sail from Tachienlu to, Shanghai. 'These caravansaries, which there are 48 in the city, are used by the Tibetans when they come from Lhasa, Chamdo, Derge, Litang and Kanze, Usually the' rooms, upstairs and down, are arranged round the four sides of the courtyard, Jand in the old days the yak and.
4 Nomad Visitors to Frontier Metropolis charge being nearly $0, Parts of it had to be assembled here in Tachienli: and apparently something went wrong with the handle bars. Whether they were put on upside down or backside foremost no one seems to know but. Tachienlu's first bicycle soon came to grief and where it is at present we have been unable to dishorses occupied the downstairs and the centre of the courtyard. With the present hygiene movement the animals are not permitted inside the city. These Tibetan caravansaries, however, can be a desolation "of abomination as the dwellers upstair> find the courtyard below a convenient place to throw anything they don't cover. The city 9 full. of old curio ws twant, When Mandeville lived in the hops and no doubt some day we shall face the derelict hanging up for sale outside one of those houses.
With wild flaky yak walking about the streets of this border town it was really too dangerous trying to ride a bicycle; and a nomad when he sees anything approaching him which he does not quite understand is inclined to perform somewhat like a chicken. with yak and nomads wandering about the narrow streets it may be that the authorities wisely tabooed this new adventure in civilization.
Some one told us that the handle-vats moved without giving the bicycle any sense of direction and if that were $0 we can quite understand its absence from the public thorough fares. Both the yak and the nomad have. this peculiarity and. when a Dleyele is included the trio would make life very precarious along the Tibetan frontier.
[Chuja someone upstairs threw water Jon his black bear below.
The Chuja, howe recognized ing one of the in Tachienlu, Frontier Wedding Yesterday, Tachienlu had its frst real society wedding. Mr. Chow Chen-tong, a young oficial in the Central Authority, and Miss Chang Chi-chen, young lady teacher in the local Central Government school, stood before Mr. Cheng. Tong-fu, Special Commissioner on the Border, and promised to be good, kind and con-Siderate to each other, No wedding in Tachienlu has. probably attracted more attention, Mr. Chow is an old friend of Capt. Brace and was connected with the Y.M.C.A, in Chengtu, He 1 quite a popular figure in the city and has travelled considerably throughout the Republic.
Miss Chang's father teaches geography ina number of the schools fand is algo a member of local public Both Messrs. Cheng. Tong and Chang Hong-kuei, the bride' faiher, are men of the old Confucian school and still adhere to the old Chinese classics, Mr, Chow was determined to invite the Europeans here and apparently his idea of a society wedding was that two organs should be used in the ceremony, one on one side of the courtyard and another on the other, and both to be played by foreign Indies, In any. public function, it there is a chopstick or two shari, it isa simply matter to go out into a bamboo grove and secure the neces~ sary material, but this is not so easy where organs are concerned. There they were, however, organs to spare, and some of them lad stops!
"The Europeans in the city had no idea Tachienlu was such a musical wee But it had really to be cleaned up before this-Chinese society wedding }Yook place and the decorations were: Jputup. Mz, Chow and his young, [bride now occupy rooms in this large Tibetan inn while the wedding festive ities continue all round them.
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