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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-05-23, Page 4FOUB ■e ?r the lucknow.sentinel W condition Of ■ ’. YO.UR BUGGY TOP . . ... - *• J». “ ‘ ■ JT IS QUITE TRUE. THAT THE BUGGY IS NOT SO PQPU- ' LAR AS THE AUTO, AND YET A BUGrQY IS ALMOST A -NECESSITY TO EVERY, FARM. . . The object to this reference to “the buggy” is to bring to.the. attention , , . of every one that drives a buggy/ i that we REPAIR THE TOPS or M.AKE-NEW;TOPS for all kinds and at most Reasonable prices. . “ IF YOUR BUGGY TOP IS NOT. IN GOOD .'REPAIR,. WE AD-_ VISE THAT YOU SEE US ABOUT IT. “ Willis, Shoe - ■ The Leading Shoe Store of These Parts —— r X HushMcMillanRecords — Impresssons Of Written And.Spoken Japanese ...35.Nakayama_te jdori,-A. ..ehome,r ' , Kobe, Japan. Mareh 20th, 1935. Dear SeritrherFriends;~ ™ Before the time comes when the hum df Japanese conversation be­ comes such a daily common place as to - obliterate first impressions, .it might prove interesting—or amusing —later, to record some of these!about our study of. the Japanese language,' Nippon Go, as it is called here.. — jLn the first place one is: impressed ' with the thought of Japanese as i worthy of being called one of the. world's languages. I asked a foreig­ ner. not lorig ago, who has lived most .-OfJ^.^l^fe^in-J^p.an^why^he~!hadn^ learned Japanese. “I wish now 1 had,” hd replied., “When I was a boy my father wouldn’t let me AI wanted . to, but he just said, ‘What, that coolie lingu? I should say not?’” Such an! .attitude, one* regrets6 CbT^^TPe'pre— ' .. • sents, or rather represented,: trie gen- . - i ■ tKe"languages' of the’ Orient,; both' in Japan and. China during the past half . \ century ■ pr more. Exceptions of course have been many: Missionaries, itudents of history or anthropology ete.r some .business men; and the dip­ lomats. But that old attitude, even qf "7" "theiWrii^rity is changing and ehang- ing rapidly. , ' \. Whatever may be said of the Jap-; anese haying or notHhaving^the-qual^ ca^e<l!a ^aagaago . is nQw tending to become one. /For the Christian world, it-is the lang— ’ r- KINLOUGH , i ■*'"" Little Cpulfien McBurney of Bervie spent a few days with her .cousin,1 Balfour McLean. Mrs. Lavina Hodgkinson -visited over the week-end with Mr., arid Mrs. D. MacDonald, 2nd . con. M^, and Mrs. ^JasxPercy, Mr. and! , Mrs., Lloyd Pe’rey andJ^Mary were Sunday visitors with rfeiatives here., Mr. and. Mrs. Wm.|Haidenby and Mrs. Geo. Haldenby Attended the Wraith — Wrijl receptiori \pn Monday 'evening. ' •' ;•’ r ' Mr. W. Tweedy has. returned from Port „Colbourne where he spent the winter.' The , Lucknow Sentinel Published every Thursday . morning at Lucknow, Ontario. Mrs. A. D, MacKenzie — Proprietor Campbell Thompson—Publisher THURSDAY, MAY 23RD 1935 THURSDAY, MAY 23R& **>35 ,i \ Lyceum WING HAM /Show Starts 8 I‘. M/ THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY -25 it ever be possible to understand the ■^vpie"xnemse'ives .wno "are'" strange/ ovllju. xmis point px view; wime ousea d** •^vuy<*i u-MiocuxwtiS ariu y Ucxu e*cu oj .; In—n> ' riixv uVc .'in. «* a pun as hcu au". uquavc xyr uur ^purposes. ■ e uo want .u get vo Uxiucxavailu lue dapuii<MG! rp^p-xey-s-u-'.w^pu'VTuem'TErst'rT*'^^ ixeixcVe axsu, mat Uxeto ax-e"' suxn- vxc:nL...riOras ana parades anxong tnu^ xn.«*.iiig Up tne language LXlUt we can -vuili lu pronvuace oxiu inaae usabxc. ^xp's, tuugues ana. vocal enuxus/aua^ ’-~Aix*(,«xxy iiut umereni xrom our own nicke tuemseives inceiiigioie m tnc uoe ux tne&e strange sounus; why mA <urs; r uixriermore we want .to pe- ^ieve tne Japanese are just xoiks lute uurseives, wno can laugn at jokes ana xtinny tilings , (like foreigners witii viieir funny customs ana tneir at­ tempts at speaking Japanese) that 'ifej Tadey dan weep, ..wmen Tuv^''*ones'''''!' geii> sick or die, or leave to go to xai away places, with tears not unlike ours/ Furthermore we want to believe our eyes can learn to see some mean—" in^fie„sl^kge_2Tnaze-J-0L laundry signs," their writing.. We mow-td"-draw^"some:"of^tl^e^§igns^ ourselves so that others, at least those wno have patience with us, can rec­ ognize. in our shaky hand what we try to say. . Now that we have begun opening our. mouths and making our tongues wag a little in Japanese, it is inter­ esting what hew-understanding we get of the people; their customs, and theigaspjrations.-Bookb-and-Triaffiyidn^ stories-are oftennwritteriby people Jvho do not know even what w^ kno'xy < of the language or the customs. For example, the icustom of removing ones „ a Japanese iiome"ls often referred/to by foreign writers as a most unnecessary • and undignified proceedure. These writers evidently are not aware of the Jap­ anese attitude toward our custom of leaving opr shoes' on, even in the -house. -This amuses them. They^see a person come trampihg along a dirty street,-, turn' into the house, ring the uvor-peil, ne usnered in Wd walk ,1 V . \ I nage in which Kagawa exprestos him- ^1065 'be^ore ■ entering self. It .is the medium of the present day world’s second highest output of 7 literatureto Japan is’listed next to > Soviet Russia. It is the medium, as­ sisted by numerous foreign w*prds, Japanese pronounced, through which almost every^book worth' translating from French/ English or German, reaches the Japanese publicj-’infew months after these appear ■■in_thp_hnok_ tiffough which five millions in Taiwan A A (Formosa), fifteen millions in Chosen, ». in Manchuko (Manchuria) are at > various ^tages in becoming. educated, . along modern educational lines. Thgge latter mentioned millions- in Formosa,. Korea, and Manchuria, or \ at least tens of'thousands of thVm -'are doing these days’, wha't we "are doin^ reading the public school read- ers, scribblingx“.ji” (characters) and - trying to acquire A few phrases with which to enter into understandable conversation with the Japanese people ' In the second place one .is interested in the possibility* of this language ^actually .becoming a means of' com/ , munication even for - Occidental for- . eigners like' ourselves. Friends among foreigners here have often made such .helping encouraging statements as, “At is quite, impossible^ for" any' for-\ . eigner tp acquire the Japanese lan­ guage. Even though a whole life is — spent at/t, a foreigner never really ^acquires it/’ The different degrees^ - of politeness in the language, depend- mg on the social class or rank of, the person spoken to, is pointed put. These polite forms are so varied as to forp ’ the Japanese language itself. A mas- a Japanese / much better chance to £0,me through successfully than has the,. pleasant.. c J- ■ “Ah,! Here’s just '.the . r—He -has-neveit-been: ridden. You can start out together.” . “Savages vyould be -surprised arid -eigaret^e—lighter at- a'-s ingle touch/’~ writes a missionary;v ’ So wduld lots Mbf- cigarette lighter owners. ce.pt defeat than to struggfe. -From this ( point, he may gradually ■with­ draw into himself until ,he| shuts out the world he has found so difficult TH&ki Questions ' concerning’ health/ ad­ dressed to the Canadian Medical As- Considerate of the Sergeant >x \ Whatever you intend to paint, there Is a special Martin-Senout product for the purpose. Five of the most popular are: MULTI-USE ENAMEL r for all enamelling, Outside or in. . i ■ / OUTSIDE PORCH PAINT for porch f|oor!s, steps, etc. MARBLE-ITE varnish for hardwood floors. NEU-TONE NEU-GLOS '. (Flat) . , (Seml-GloEi) for washable interior walls' and ceilings. RAE & PORTEOUS MAY* 23-2 SPECIAL . A HEAUTH "SERVICE" OF the Canadian medical "ASSOCIATION AND LIFE® ■ INSURANCE COMPANIES . . .. “ J1. IN- CANADA" -- • MENTAL HEALTH There is no more difficult task than guiding children along the road Which * Should..lea"d thrim" to^ happy'adult life. It. is an astonishing fact that so few of those who, as parents or teachers, have this grave responsibility .^...attempt. _ .Ap.J.i.pjrfipare themselves by gaining an understand­ ing of child behaviour. When the child starts to school, he may-have a-hard-time- t£Had-just-him— self to what is, for him, a new life. He finds a new person, the teacher, in authority.; His future attitude, as an older child and as an adult, to­ wards,. authority will be largely in­ fluenced by the way in which his' teachers exercise authority. \ Ihe child who finds himself pun­ ished unfairly will naturally come to chink of aUtnority as being unfair; he. may begin to question the desirabil­ ity of ail authority. Such an attitude may lead hiin to become defiant when,, m has dtesirfe to attain .the happiness »(riricIi-“We“"'all--w it;- through misbehaviour, which gives a Satisfactory outlet to his dis.like of authority. B '. • , . At all ages we like attention. Every child should receive a certain amount of^ attention but when he deinands the- centre of the stage-at? all- times , ^exe„ls_SDmething„wr-O.ng.jJffi^chilcr v^ho is spoiled at home may demand a” great deal of: attention, at school' through being a “show-off’\ just be­ cause he does not want to give up the, attention which he has enjoyed at home. _ The same kind of behaviour may Stable Sergeant: “D’ja -ever, ride a result from..two. directly opposite horse before?” causes. As we ha ye said, the child ..Rookie: “No.’’ who,, is'spoiled at home, may be la - Sergeant: •‘show-off^-rin'sehooltoA true too of the' child" w:ho receive^ v''” make Up, in . school, for what he has _ _ . Jjfeen-depriv.ed_of_at-hpme.-_ ------—i guage-is concemedt ^we ..are trying—to- 'fa^Just^.a.s^.a certg.in-amou.nt-of—atton—- ; •__... ^jOn is desirable, so alsp should e’deh as >we' study, a' °ne ’be' allowed_ to gain satisfaction resting th state ’through .the sense of ’achievement. X mean “There doesn’t seem to be much chance for further opportunity of ac-r quinng »territory ih -this cfeupury as xn umes past, so. let tbe whole .worm settle down in peace, .and well-just- aoia wDat we have." To be let into 'chinking of this sort is -not conducive lo one s own peace of mind, you can well imagine, but it is at least sat-: isfjThg to itodi^sta^nd7 the "other Tieiv lovris point of view ’ and to 'see oor— selves as itners sees us,” even though the picture isn’t very complimentary, or"however~mtfch~toffe^unvHffihg^”tfe admit that the plans of Oriental mil- iltarists will better the situation. So touch,for he spoken language an!d the «slant on things one gets thru its use. Now whjat apput what some-- one/has called those “laundry signs' tne written language? -x ® ... Once wnen on furlough a minister' mend took, me one’ day into a Chin­ ese laundry to chat with his friend Charlie". “Write the typrd ’for /God’/' saila tne minister, “and see if uhaer- >xund^/....^.__; —.2—- ' 1 put forth my best, attempt. • Cnarliplooked, ap,' the character* ahd tnen at us, evidently quite at a. toss to know wnat the game mignt oe. • x»xe po . savey/’ he said, . ^Vrie^ftonTSteFT~tfioiighTr^^—frienct ^:imuieij/musto-.bfe~pKettX.».dumD.<--n&u co be-abie -to-reaa a - simple -littje word like “God”. ’ But 1 tried to ex- plam. Suppose two Chinese, all dress­ ed in their Sunday best came into a xittle shop of a Canadian somewhere, and without much introduction wrote. “The All Highest” on a piece of paper and then ^tool back waiting for the shop-keeper’s reaction. What w-ouid the -Canadian be likely to do or say l Vyould, his ' reaction ; be unlike iCh0Wk.?±H¥^vtoiffd^v^CXbZfinaZoiiU first something of the underlying meanjngT7"’"''’""^~ Itos is what we are doing these aays-also^Sofar-asrtnewntton-lan" =S=TO^-nirerie“ffi^pens to bfT^/to" Japanese' seems to indicate a Jittle iacK of proper appreciation for the "beauty ?-oiTrirgg l ake also for, example using the language to chat, about the present political situation. From the West these days -.come, echoes of a good deal oi talk fanout peace, etc. Along .-witn -his • thqre is not a. little criticism, oi vhe militarists in Japan because oi ganger. to the peaceful equili- onum of tne world. Thinking Japanese people advocates also of J peace and '/Qt to Western peace idealism, rind themselves puzzled, confronted as they 'are with the Country’s mil­ lion new babies every, year.Whatever tninking people say or may not say aoout a .sfiJution of this problem,, the militarists are nqt without a plan to solve it'■in their own way. So far\as one can s understand^this plan, they simply mean! to solve the population problem by enlarging the nation’s, oorders, .which they have come to call -‘life-lines.” As the nation-family in­ creases, the farm line fence must he extended to take in extra fields some­ where, if The family is to-be able to eak out an existence. How do thepouce iorms are so varied as to form c<SJi uuv au cAi*i.cuce. now ao me . as it were, different languages within militarists propose to proceed? Weil, the Japanese language itself. A mas- 'peacefully if possible. Peace natural- iy pays, in the long run. But if not possible, /hey are also prepared for less peaceful methods. They expect however, and state their expectation^, that the. less peaceful methods are 1 quite likely to be necessary! In spite ' tery of ail these '.formal, polite e^ pressions'is, considered an impossible task. The lohg, involved sentence structure is another difficulty, as is also the wide.use of the Chinese, mi'x- ( ed in with the Japanese. All this, of course is quite true, so true that, if ‘of peace talk in countries controlling, one pauses to think about it, interest ’ more “territory than they really need, , to ^oing ahead is .apt to shrivel ■ up they feel that teal1 peace sentiment and die. People who have never at- in these countries (ours included) is tempted ,acquiring the language take- not yet strQng enough to enable or- trie stand that this jumble of strange, dinary bargaining for the land the Oriental sounds called Japanese is country needs, to be even discussed, quite impoesibie for an Occidental to Hence they are critical of tis Western-- inderEtand anyway and neither can ers. They interpret our. peaee talk to J ► > ► ► ► ■ 1■ * YOUR HOME IS YOUR CASTLE Adhilf only'cleari,’ Constructive news by reading 1 THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR ■ 4 Daily Newspaper for ihe Home It give* all tbe cjputructive world new* ,but doe* "not exploit crime aod aearidaL Ha* interesting feature page* loir all the family on Women’s..Actividea, Hom** thaking, Garrlen*, Education' and Bodki. Alto pages fOr the' Children and Yottnf * , Folks. Vigorous editorial's,- tin interpretation of new* iri tha “March of the r . ■ Nation*'*’ Column and “Watching the World Go By” , ; are of esperiai iiiterest to men. ’ The Christian Science Publishing Society r .......- . ...... ► ► ► ► ► SWEETHEARTS OF “STATE FAIR’’ TOGETHER AGAIN ; also Symphony in Color— . / —---- -V."~ “THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANTS” " AND FOX NEWS Admission: Adults 35c; Children 20c. —NEXT WEEK— ZICN Anniversary services will be held at Zion next Sunday, May- 26th. Rev. iind Out something about the unuer- lyirig meaning. And, ; / / ii|ttie4. it may be interesting tb state chat' we find it not “an unintelligible maze of laundry signs” but i series of pictures through, which the root ideas of the language are as discern- lble as the fundamental ideas of English through Latin or Greek roots. —-^Fake-for-examp fe'“trre: , L... tion is. desirable, so also should ehch Qne be' allowed to gain satisfaction The child who is repeatedly set tasks which, are beyond his mental capacity becomes discouraged.]. To him,, failure becomes a, habit. Children vary great­ ly in their menal, capacities. and their capacities should be. the! guide’ to w.hat J^expecied-of-themr-not-^he-a-mbitboh- : T?-.:-A-::Brook7-B.-Th.-7of Bly th" will”be~7T -ther-g-uest sp.eak-er-for—the- day.- Ser--- vices at 11 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. Mt. , a'ncl Mfs! Richard Gardner ■ "vis'itocl on “iSunday with Durigarinon and Westfield friends. Rev. Campbell Tavener of Blenheim called on Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Andrew on. Wednesday last. '' Mr- Will Hunter Jr./ spent Sunday with friends at Walkerton. ----and—M;ns.f-_.Dav4d—-Ri-te-lrto—a-nd—- ■aTOjpMrs. W/Ti Gardner on Sunday afternqon. vamxu iu». uuc,. {wwiaiiu. ui«s>swy. u> xne uanaaian weaicar . •• •’ ’ ' ■ >*'timid child who has,, in r’eality, giyert -s^ciation., 184 College St.,' Toronto Mlss Jess’e Andrew • spent a ‘day un’d;h€-'fightoand-ffinds'"it~eariertnJa'C’-~wiU"lffe~hh'swerea^persmiaITy“ ’ . ' . . , ' -------—a— means language. Simple and concise, 'ish’t it.? :. . ; --^Nip’A-wr4tten-^.^madeograph-.....is_' a picture representing the sun. Il we look ^.the* rioon-day sun with our squinting, naked eyes, it will appear like a- circular.. object with a hori­ zontal stroke representing thd dihm- eter.v At least this is how primitive Oriental people represented, long ago, what their eyes sjiw of the sun. But s^ince these people like to draw their picture writing as if in little frames Of uniform size, this circular sun be­ comes ip ordinary printing, a little rectangular symbol, with a horizontal stroke across the centre like the 'woo­ den sash of a two-paned window. Nbw for “pon” the second syllable. There is first a perpendicular stroke like the centre Stem of a tree. From a point about half why up this stroke like a’tree’s roots leading down into the ground, are two strokes, one on each side !of the stem. Across the main stem, marking the point where if it^1 were actually a tree, the fceed was located and life began in another stroke. This < simple ideograph drawn with five strokes, is a picture, of a tree and means what the ■ little' cross stroke mentioned above indicates, “source’’ or “origin”. This . is the ..name usbd to designate Japan. The country of the. sun origin, ori the “Land of the Rising Sun.” x The third ideograph is “k°” lan­ guage. It is . made up of three parts, ph the left side is the' root ideograph representing the idea of speech*. It consists of four, short, parallel strokes and underneath is a circle or red- tangle representing -the hunian mouth The other side of the ideograph con­ sists of the figure for “five” and be­ neath it another mouth.'1 Thus in this ideograph one sees at a ’glance two ideas in combination, .“five mouths” plus “speech1”. Or in other words, five people together In a' group engaged in the manufacture of “language”. And so it goes. .One could make an interesting list of words and ideas expressed. by simple “pictures”. For example the ideographs or “pictures”., for mpn and woman appear in -inter­ esting: combijiations/ Man bef&ie earth, means usefulness or duty; man beside a tree means rest. One woman under a roof-.means peace; a woman plus a child expressed something good. Or, for example, a pig under a roof means-house or home; but an ox under a roof is trie. ideograph for prison. , . - Knowing even' this mucl|, “Nip^-pon flgo” begins to take ori ’new 'meaning. Greetings to all our Lucknow friends, ' Sincerely, Hugh MacMillan, IF IT NEEDS ENAMELLING . . . you II get best results with MULTI-USE ENAMEL . ?nfo‘yi h°r ' in lour hours HoWa off the, brush so smoothly and levels itself out so evenly' that inoxbeiiencod wintm »re ..Armed. at <l,c U woT'dwy c ' Ay the ni^ert \l 100% lure hum, (.timiilJi honsv paint. .LUCKNOW -H- *• ,, 107 Falftiouth StYeet, Boston. MaSsacIiusetU . \ Pleaite tenter my .subscription to The Christian Science.Monitor for Three months $2.26 One month ,75c ■ period < 'V. of One year f 19.00 Six months 4,50- Name ................., A Street..................... %• . Oity... .. ......... i« ... k State... I friends, *