The Brussels Post, 1910-7-28, Page 2ANCIENT CUSTOM
E11E1IONY Or ItUSIt BEARING
IN ENGLAND.
SIi AN GII SI ^SLA.V11 REFUGE,
o Has Never Missed Obsor
co Maypole Dance
oliows.
A quaint Ceremony known as rush
bearing dates back to remote times,
when the floors of dwellings and
churches consisted of hard earth,
which was covered with rushes.
is
' ha
Once a year the inbitan of
tl,e towns and villages enjoyed the
great ceremony of going in proses-
s:O" to the church to strew the
floor with newly cut h and the
ork of
where -
passed
begin-
sin
s pre -
The
rashes,
STRONG RELIGIOUS SIDE,'
Children Rescued Prom Cruel Bing George's Reply to Two Chunk
Owners --A Growing Wei'k.
In the foreign quarter of Shang-
hai there is a slave refuge which is
dol'• g good work and which will
have tomove into more, eommodi-
ods quarters before long. Con-
cerning this institution the North
China Daily News says: "It is ten
Years . since the institution was
started, then in a small house in
Sinew road, its present home, a
Chinese building at the corner of
Avenue and Ferry roads, which
was built in 1905, and it is proof
„f the extent to which the
the refuge has grown that,
as the total number of those
through its hands since the
ning is 132, the number of if
f sent inmates is sixty- our. between
of Grasmerein rho; ages of the children �t their
little village the costal
he oars
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only place where the, custom has! maintenance is about
ce. filth.
an unbroken record s f observance.' They are also instructed in a
non-sectarian form of Christianty..
4t'hen old enough they are married,
as a rule, to well-recomme
Christian husbands—this is easily
managed --or are put to some post
Addresses.
That the King's character has a
deeply religious side is owning to
the 'knowledge of the people of the
Empire, to whom he was an un-
known quantity, when he ascended
the throne. In responding to an
address from the convocation of
the northern province he said:
"The foundations of national glory
are set in the homes of the people
and will . remain unshaken only
while the family life of our race and
nation is strong, simple and pure.
The work of the church—religious
and charitable—assumes each year
a deeper practical significance.
Replying to "a similar address re-
cently from the convocation of
Canterbury, the King said:
"I desire to promote the peace
and unity of nations, to second all
efforts for the alleviation of sickness
and suffering, and to support every
wise and well -considered scheme for
the public good. I am encouraged
in all this by your good wishes and
prayers for God's blessings on all
my endeavors and am fortified by
the'belief that the ends we pursue
in harmony with the teachings of
the church will be achieved only
while we seek in faith and humility
that perfect standard of conduct
and sacrifice revealed to Christian
men,"
His Majesty spoke in a similar
strain in response to several other
addresses. Taken as a whole, these
utterances are adjudged to be the
most striking religious pronounce-
ments that have emanated from the
throne in many years. They form
the subject of congratulations both
by the celuar and the religious
presa, and are cited as proof that
the King "realizes the evional
al
quality of the English ot
ane :means to make his reign dis-
tiuctively Christian."
TRADE. IN CIGAR STUBS
!'here the festival h ld ono
year on the Saturday aft gat. Os-
wald's day, the 'saint.ytor whom the
little churc) e ed.
^,. 0W IT IS KEPT.
villagers combine the rushes
in schools or hospitals.
fa —now no longer needed for make "Of the tragedies with which the
pet—with wild flowers and refuge has to cope, the �' wing
them into various forms suggesting
Christian truths. In the late af-
ternoon the children assemble with
these designs and arrange them
aiong the churchyard' wall, where
the villagers and "hundreds from
the surrounding country acme to
admire, or at least to study, the
wonderful devices.
Moses in the bulrushes is still a
leading favorite, and the visitor
was privileged to view a little china
Moses lying on a. soft white bed in
a nest of rushes. " He says in the
Outlook that the flaxen -haired baby
carrying this marvellous exhibit
had the honor later of leading the
children in the Maypole procession,
rl led
by1thedhandelandsbearingsmall
the ser-
pent from the Garden. This device
must have measured five feet, and
as it was in spiral forth its actual
ler.gth 'could not have been less
than twelve feet.
SATURADY EVENING.
all 6.30, when the clergy and choir
and band and children are arrang-
cd for the procession, the hymn of
So. Oswald is sung, the band plays upone of his pion
-
March,"
century old "Rush Bearing! gin he picks
March," and they parade the vil- I nies, takes it to the nearest bush
lege with bells ringing and crowds i saloon and pawns it for the drink.
following. On returning to the This custom was disclosed when
church the garlands are hung about Sir George White in the British
r
recent case will serve ass good
illustration: A little girl, of about
9 years old, had been brought by
kindly neighbors to 'a hospital on
the outskirts of the settlement; she
was terribly cut about the head and
body and was practically in a dy-
ing condition. When she became
better her owners claimed her,
threatening to kill her when- she
should return.
"She was taken to the refuge, the
superintendent of which was ohne-
ed to communicate with the police,
in view of the owners' behavior.
Finally the child was taken before
the mixed court by which she was
formally handed over to the refuge,
where we are glad to learn she is
doing well."
CHILDREN PAWNED FOR GIN.
A Widespread Cnetom in the Yoru-
ba Country of West Africa.
In the Yoruba country, West
Africa, when a thirsty native finds
he hasn't the price of a drink of
A r,sn,•af
IT IS A THRIVING BUSINESS
IN NAPLES.
Cut Up .and Manufactured Into
Cigarettes and Smoking
Tobacco.
Buying and selling cigar stubs is
alarge and lucrative business in
Naples, and many persona are en-
gaged in it.
Some of them have little stalls or
shops near the docks, the arsenal ss
and the manufacturing eatabhs
ments where workingmen are in the
habit of passing to and fro from
their tasks. Others, with leas ca-
pital, have little stands at street
corners a board laid across a saw
'
hose, upon which their stookis
displayed, while the petty dealers
exhibit their stock in little piles.
upon the walk. sometimes not even
a newspaper being under them.
The supply comesfrom the cafes,
restaurants, hotels and other pub-
lic places. Men and women pick
over the garbage heaps and the dust
boxes, and boys run up and down
the pavements in front of the ho-
tels early every morning looking for
"snipes. '
and a full choral evensong follows,
with the rush bearers' hymn. On
the following Monday all the decor-
ations
ng field, where the May poleg is neighbor-
ing set
p and a regular gala day enjoyed
""" by the children.
AGED MEN HAD GENIUS.
Did Splendid Work in the After
Part of Their Lives.
Disraeli said, "Old age is un-
known to genius." ,ro
Dante was almost 70 ve
ormp°sed his greatest poem,
csMiu'g'"and Book," was conauob-d
when he was over 60
Tennyson was nearly 80 when ho
wrote "Crossing :he Bar. •'
Oliver Wendell Rotate; was a
prtfessor at Harvard at se.
Michel Angelo completed the great
onpaio of St. 't'eters at 57.
Titian efinisaod his 'last Sup
per." at 77, aril at 71 West com-
pleted his best p:,•tore, `berth ,.n
the Pale Horse."
Haydn produceu kis sul,1him
"Creation" at 08, we're 1'c'd;. was
`est 'i0 when ht, vnoe the ,tette c i
`'Falstaff."
Sir Isaac N.ewtoe wr, to a pre -
laze to his "t natioia" at Sli, while
Sis William He .r cell when s.vrr
60, swept the .leriveas with a trite
targe of.
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k were the
;eau pr•
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PAY FOR PRIVILEGE.
Some of the restaurant and cafe
keepers sell the privilege of pick-
ing up the cigar -stumps in their
plaoes to dealers, and the proceeds
amount to a considerable sum dur
lug the year. In other places it is
one of the perquisites of the head
waiter. The janitors of public'
buildings, the porters of the hotels
and men at the clubs invariably
have business relation tthhdgnn-
lemen in the second cig
d
make a little something out of it.
Some of the stubs are taken to
factories, where they are cut up
and manufactured into cigarettes
and smoking tobacco, but the great-
er part of them are sold to the low-
er classes of workingmen, sailors
and dock' wallopers, who smoke
them in their pipes.
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A SOCIALIST. FUNERAL.
Wild Scenes in the Streets of Paris,
France.
ut-
eCi
Ten thousand Socialists, shout-
ing and singing revolutionary songs
and firing revolvers, attended the
funeral in Paris recently of a cab-
inetmaker named Clere, who was
recently mortally injured in a col-
lision between strikers and police.
At, 3 o'clock the police were strug-
gling to disperse amob of 8,000 re-
volutionaries. All the traffic in the
neighborhood of the Faubourg St,
Antoine was delayed, and the
tramway and omnibus services were
disorganized. „
Singing the "Internationale,
the procession moved towards t
cemetery, porters hurri
the doors of houses
and shopkeepers has
up their shutters. R
the cemetery, twent
proceeded to mob a
man, but he was
comrades using the
swords. Numerous
made.
On leaving the P
a very large numbe
tors gathered arour
flags. The crowd
women and childre
cavalry kept the P
and the demonatra
maned to disperse.
Then the polic
swords. At
eral ,shots were fig
ensued, blows bein
fists, sticks and s
ntonstrators fled
Many rolled on
men and childrel
upon.
The cavalry a
drawn swords,
came general. -,
TO CHEER HIS WIFE.
London Boot -Finisher Pretended
10 Had Work.
House of Commons asked if it
wasn't a fact that "thousands of
children are pawned by their par-
ents for gin and kept in a condi-
tion of domestic slavery."
The Under Secretary of the Co
lonial Office replied that the cus-
tom was widespread and quoted the
following extract from a report by
a committee composed of educated
natives on the laws and customs of
the Yoruba country :
"When a lender advances mor
to a borrower he asks the,,a, ,m nt
provide an aceertaile" borrower is
is resp3 service for the lender
dil'ie`diy in the week, the service re-
presenting interest for the money
advanced. He lives in his own
house.
"But if a child is providedas a
substitute he is to live with and
work for the lender as his child,
the consideration for the loan be-
ing that the borrower is deprived
of and the lender enjoys the ser-
vices of the borrower's child; but
by this arrangement the child does
not become the slave of the lender.
"The child does not forfeit his
rights and privileges as a free born.
He can behave to the lender pre-
cisely the same way as to his own
father; indeed he enjoys more free-
dom with the former, for he can
at any time refuse to live with him.
On the other hand the lender is re-
sronsible to the public authorities
for injury to the health of the child
ard for his death."
BULLS BROKE LOOSE.
Throe Men Gored to Death in Por-
tugal.
A bullfight entirely without pre-
ent occurred last month at Pe-
as, Portugal, where there is a
e cattleranch for the breeding
to Spanish bulls for the
is Sunday contests in Spain
Portugal,
rdors were engaged in sopar-
g the bulls, and driving them
enclosures, preparatory to
them to id 'and Va
la tanEl,,
0
A 'tragic story of unemployment
and starvation, and a husband's
ruse to cheer his wife, was related
at the inquest on Louis Defries,
erred forty-one, a London boot -fin-
isher.
"My husband had no work for a
month," the widow asstatedga was
this ,worried him greatly.
in arrears with the rent, and the
children were crying for food,
which he could not give them.
"All the time a doctor told him
he must have a rest and take more
nouris eat.
"He told me on Monday last that
he had obtained work at Waltham-
V day
and - he went out every d y
until Saturday, when he got up
SECOND HAND.
At the entrance of the navy yard,
which is upon one of the most and res
ia
ques
ented streets in Naples,
a very conspicuous place, half a
dozen of the secondhand cigar dea-
ler* can be found when the men are
coming out of the gates at the close
of their day's work.
The employes are not allowed to
smoke inside and their wages do not
permit them to indulge in the lux-
ury of cigars or even smoking to-
bacco at first hand. which is the
For a centisSimo,
smallest coin imaginable—one-V
of a cent—they buy a pleas' cram
crumble at in their
it intothsinda del "'viola—the big
early in the morning and banged I �s°s=a thriving business i done
himself. His story about obtaini?t? =�`, g
work was untrue. .I,.s„snrp:f' with the sailors, teamsters and
T th e k " roustabouts, and in the market
Un y sem,., h:�. r
Cor.,.. .....I.,tochee.his,,.;e, stands.
but
l:adno money he apparently could
not ace the situation."
Th jury returned a verdict of
"suicide while temporarily insane."
-'5
i t nn ewe,
or�k-vr Wynn I`iestcott, the place are .always two ar three
when Saturday came and he
TIIA.GEDX ENDED WELL.
FALSE COMET.
Ilow Sian Peasants Suffered
Fr i a Terrible Fright.
Off o the most amusing ocur-
ren , s in connection with the ap-
pance f 'Halley's comet is re -
{posed from the township. of Niko-
sk, in the Alexandriesky district,
ussia. The inhabitants, who are.
i ostly Old" Believers, were told
t at the comet might be expected
o i Sunday, May 15. In view of the
c ming end of the world they CD -
gaged in fasting and prayer, took
baths, . donned clean linen, and
lighted holy candles in their homes.
Then most of them sat down be-
neath the ikons in the corners of
the rooms to await the end,
Shortly after midnight the watch-
ers reported that the comet had ap-
peared over the hills and was rap-
idly approaching the village. There
arose universal shrieks and lamen-
tations, and the villagers hastily
wrapped themselves in white cloth.
The light came straight towards
Nikolsk, and the inhabitants were
in a state of frenzied terror by the
time they realized that it was only
the powerful acetylene lamp of a
motor -ear, on which a party of.gen-
tlemen were touring the country.
OST OF GOVERNMENT.
e'. growth of flhe cost of goy -
teat Britain there is
teen+years ago the
000 per.
serve•.
Man . Became Husband of Girl
Whose Face He Disfigured.
A Glasgow family were entertain-
ing a group of friends, the eldest
daughter having just become en-
gaged to a very promising young
man. The youngest daughter, a
very delicate girl, turned somewhat
faint during the evening, and her
sister's fiance lifted what he took
be a bottle of perfume which
stood on a table close by and throw
part of its contents on the girl's
face. Instantly she screamed in
direst agony, 'and as the others
came rushing in the young man
found, to his undying remorse., that
what he had suppos-esl' to 'be per-
fume was in reality a strong acid
used by a young brother' who dab-
bled in chemistry, and who had
carelessly left it lying about, The
poor girl suffered terribly ,for
woks, and her face was frightfully
disfigured, thoughher sight was
spared.
The young man's regret for the
tragic end to his well -meant efforts
was intense, and to make matters
worse, his sweetheart broke off her
engagement with him, saying sire
could not bear to marry him after
what had happened. He sailed for
Canaan, prospered there, and re-
turned at the end of five ,years, to
find the girl he had innocently in-
jured living in poverty with her
widowed mother, her sisters having
all married, There was'a' few
week's courtship, then a quiet wed-
d:ng, and now a happy, honored
and prostwrous woman blesses fer-
vently tho day which held for her
all the elements of tragedy.
HEIR A PPARENT' S'INCOME.
The nuke of Cornwall, the heir.
to the:th •aa, derives a clear in-
terne
ncome of; £80,000 a year from the
Cprnwall, the property
eiitted ,eno0rnouely in
queen of the
040
the .ntr'.=" ted,
e,,,,,, scared on the
1{strators were pu
boring streets,
refuge in 'cafes,.
TIIE GIALLO
First Up -to -Da
rived
The first gui
ed in China h
from France.
side the now
to recent re
will no longe
Penalty of
the old code,
Death by
capitation a
head, decap
months, imp
hanging afte
According
death penalt
Immediate
decapitation
and deferre
The adva:
person of a
silts in the
i's'tesf,k he
t•once of`d
Emperor, and
audit as are to be exeeu
draws a red line. The others es-
cape for that year; but must take
their chances the next year and
every successive year, when the
same formality is gone through un
the part of the Sovereign.
TOOTHLESS REPTILES.
Very few people know that nei-
ther a turtle, a tortoise, nor a toad,
is provided with teeth, There is a
general superstition that, a' turtle
can bite off a man's finger ; but the
turtle can do .nothing of the kind.
Its jaws are very strong, and the
horny membrane that runs round
the jaw, where, in other animals
teeth are found, is so hard and
tough that the turtle can crush the
bones of the hand to pulp ; but as
for biting off even a finger, the feat.
is to the turtle an impossibility.
DONKEYS LAUGH NOW.
Fresh from the Italian R`
where the sojourner's ha
used to bo seriously marred
state of the horses, mules ar
keys, a correspondent writ
extrairi,o satisfaction of the i
0
C�
cry.D 0'4
'11,s Lite
of j,iberty-,,
t agyes1
sign Terre:
oy a•Freo
r ago ab.
1 to assns.
eau has h the
ha
st, romanc
w words
e
es:
GII,OI'f'rIn OF SOCIALISM
Germany
'Will l
be
Startled, Sayi
F
'Political Expert, e
s
,4o
• lots
Herr Maximilian Harden, ' too
foremostp oltical export of ca
S
many, is pCSSililiatlC about
giowth of Socialism. He belief
that the general election next ye
will startle Germany by discloe
the strength of Socialism at
ballot box. Herr Harden, of coui,.
isn't a Socialist, .but hotehe Pe
many frankly what it may
in the future and outlines the o
es that have nurtured the ex`
dinary and even alarming
of Socialism i, the Empire.
Harden s
physio fr
lly nil, Unir'i
ly a a • g irritant poison •..f(
ed: in• the tss'nes at the sil,!A
sting, and, like many otle'0
ons which have a beneficita,
ie moderate doses, this
might easily induce serious t
dry brain derangement in es
doses.
"Animals have been kno'
mad when attacked by
wasps. It is generally
that this madness is nc
ii -ht to the pain carr d I,0
Punctures. It i81, ca'
possible that rn.r °.7.
hination of ex''s,.
and the irrite,a
from the sig,', tee
erosigh to'bri tas. >
dal mania," ,
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USED T011 '+y
Mrs JytliCtIte ret ho
4, 01 tee;„,tr•
fort
SEEN 1.
Blue reigns
Pongee pet
Some of th
a border in ce
Tiglit0r ilia
at the botto
Tulle makes
tive coiffure
The gunmet
Ati11 hold the!
Among the
-
cuvered with
Stiffs of the
severe lines.
Mai'guerit•es
in present Pa
tion.
'Tucked long'
and they are l
Summer.
'lhe
newest. t
novelty pillow
site e fad for
red patent les
eb abatement.
Ohanteclex g;
ward to mat
handkerchief.
White-can'va
oxfords are m
wear.
Crochetted n
novel and
practicidea,al.
Many of at
small silk tashese
dies.
Old rose col
trenched in tht
the moment.
Brown satin
A;ear are among
in footwear.
Blue suede sh'.
fur street wea
tome is dark bll
Supple poplin
tissues of open 1
tailored suits.
For street we,
ing fashion for
striped linen.
Furze wood,
deem to e
parasol bandies
The majority o
low, but a. few
with silk ribbon
Hand painte.
and dress stuffs
sell, are decided
Neck ruffs of
of one's costum,
ever a cooler da
The Persian be
ished with a nor
loather or dark
Crocheted pea
Gee of the latest
keeping with su
White kid glov
colors to match
tiers and pinks
ored.
Most of the pa
have handles fr
inches longer the
Ago.
Jet necklaces
jet continue in
seen more with.
than ever.
Pumps . are f:
form > or another,
and patent leathe
bow is seen and
also,
Silver is used
a setting for pre
precious stones,
pendants, pins,
buckles.
THE"QU
The children h
grandfather with
lung, rainy aftern<
it Very patient, but
his newspaper.
They had aske
came from and
going.; where the
when it rained, a
had ever counted
'on the shore; but.
where yesterday h
' father sighed.
"Don't. bother h
Mary' said.
Grandfather lac•
ask you a question,
if you can't answer
risk me any more
The children agr
nod grandfather a.
you make eight oil
The children retic
anti were still for
last Dorothy tipto'
II be done on pape
"Yes," said gnat
with one stroke of
The ohildten trod
liboary, and no mo
from thein until t
faces showed that t'
up.”
After tea, gritndfat
stale drew tier Roar
tlarteen. Then he c
line thought the cel
ly, cutting the ten
the Centel', teaking
"01, said :NA
°'grandpas knows eve
why we alt him