Lincoln High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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x K G x 7A ,.k' IS dch Ulcd to! . INII $Illllt'l hOthlel'LmEE 1!, the SChUUI paliergrs: 9 r .I ha arc untabsurf 3 :ur llu'rc is a vastn- luw arr nut wildfoz tlmr shnrn heads totte- llhjx' :Irc peculiar. lll I nil spirits andldoi qilsiin it 31!. ll. siliull oi the doom u-rmm. The evil spinl va n rv hard workot h'lllu's IVII'I Hill ilnflf rlu- lmrclrr it is forth: l PM he rt-spcctedup: Trent principle that a: ' lmurrs :Irc Yinantl l'l. 'an nwl nightwmt h lllwuglxt that thepli W mum! unly that?- wli lllr uiml :lml tthUl ltdltlx lvriilgcs. grate: l! :m x-nnrmnuswptftj n run: it is the P00 ? ll .h lu ill: Illuwcthelf itlw'x lnnilil lhcirihollf lH' lHL'leI building; lzr cul spiritw'l'crl1 .1111! the riclwrhtlf i'izi 1'1: :1: mass 01' Page twenty-nrinc THE CARDINAL lodge the whole army of evil spirits, therefore it was, decreed that no one should build high at all. The temples and pagodas and towers to the Dragon. and such things are raised high in the air, but all the houses must fare alike. . Chinese cities are almost all built of wood, and the Chinese are more or less careless about fire. They smoke incessantly, using little pipes with tiny brass bowls and huge stems. They will puff a few times and then knock the live fire out upon the floor wherever they happen to be. Of course, it is the poorer classes that do this and the result is that fires are constantly occurring and causing much de- struction. The Chinese think these tires are caused by the evil spirits; ISABELLE BROUGHER. $ir Eager anh ttmrihge ltDonec virenti cam'ties a-best 1140mm, mmc et campus at arms C 01xnpositai mpeta-mtw ham? 1 Horace, Carmina, I, 9, 17-20. s I WAS sitting musing one sunny afternoon in my roomat the Washington Apartments, I was aroused by the sound of someoneis rapping at my chamber door. On carefully opening the door-as far as possible in a modern apart- ment-I perceived there, to my 'joy and surprise, my worthy friend Sir Roger de Coverley. He notified me that Will Wimble having made the discovery that a fash- ionable ttbridgeh party Was to be given that afternoon at the Hotel Portland, he had suggested that a party of us take this opportunity to find out what sort of an object this tlbridgeii was. A number of our club members were nowawaiting me at the skating rink. t We met with no difliculty in reaching our destination texcept a slight trouble in deciding which of the stairs on the iiPay-as-you-enteW were meant to be usedethe conductor, however, righted us very shortly ' in every sense of the word. Captain Sentry, undaunted by the ofhcial, said he thought the contrivance on the back platform was a peanut roaster and would not believe to the contrary though assured it was the latest invention for extorting money from the public. . Considering that we werestrangers in the city, we found the Port- land Hotel with comparative ease. We roamed about the grand old place in extreme delight and curiosity for some hours when, by some lucky chance, Will Wimble happened to'spy a room full of ladies who were dressed most elaborately. They were all sitting around small tables which were arranged about the room. Each held in her hand a goodly number of curiously colored and spotted cards, in which she seemed much interested, though, as Sir Roger observed, they all seemed to be scolding their neighbors for something they had or had

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THE CARDINAL Page twenlty-eight s devoted to the interests of The department entered under this heading 1 the freshmen members of Lincoln High School student body, Whose efforts ' toward maintaining the desirable standard of the school paper are deeply appreciated by the Editors of The Cardinalti. EHnnng-iEthy The heathen Chinese are very peculiar. They are not absurd, for they are too much in earnest, and not mad, for there is a vast method running through everything they do. They are not wild, for they reason profoundly ; but from the tops of their shorn heads to the bot- toms of their thick, wooden-so-led shoes they are peculiar. It would take a lifetime to explain their notion of evil spirits and I doubt if there is any Chinaman born who could explain it all. - The location of their houses, and the position of the doors, and of the rooms, and of the beds, is very important. The evil spirits are supposed to travel in a straight line and make very hard work of turn- ing corners; therefore on entering their houses you will find many turns. The more turns in their houses the harder it is for the evil spirit to enter. The great spirit that is everywhere and must be respected upon all occasions is Loong, the Dragon. The great principle that controls everything is the Foong-shooy and the two powers are Yin and Yang, which embody life and death, heat and cold, day and night, wind and water, north and south, good and evil. It is thought that the philosoe phers who hrst wrote of the Foong-shooy meant only that people must have proper regard for the courses of the wind and the currents of water.in selecting positions for homes, roads, bridges, graves and other objects; but it has grown to be such an enormous superstition 111 China today that no matter what goes wrong it is the Foong-shooy that IS out of order. x s . of :7th liaxsz: a :tsrong faithllin anyglthing high as being above the reach . e . ' - low if the bEiieve iii: W'lTh'wEil er why they. build their.ho-u.ses so . Y . . . 1n .ln'g that the highest building in the neighborhood IS the most inaccesmble to the evil spirit ever bod it would seem, would try to build the highest, and tl , y y, . . . 1e richer he was the higher would he build. This would leave the great mass of poor to 42 ,1 ,7 $kvlitwk 3 than, i, T 5,7 m: ,V , H w i; 1, . TAT. um TAT ha c. i

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THE CARDINAL Page thirty-two grinder and soon we lost sight of him altogether. Unclaunted we still trudged on, not knowing where we were, or how we were to find our way home. My little playmate at last suggested that he was tired, so we sat down in the tall grass by the roadside. Insrde of a muiute we were both fast asleep. Soon darkness fell and the mooneommg out saw two little runaways happily dreaming of candy, fairlesa and. a dozen other delights, while in a certin home there was an exc1tement never before equalled inside those walls. . Just about the time we sat down to rest, a man w1tht a satchel stepped off the train at a country railway station twelve mlles from the city. . He was a traveling salesman on his way home, and stopped off at the Village to attend to some important business, after the trans- action of which he intended to hire a team and drive to the Clty. . . . As he sped along in his light buggy, his mind turned to thoughts of home and his dear little boy, whom he imagined was impatient to see his daddy. He never thought for a moment that his bOy had come some twoior three miles to meet him. . As the horses emerged from an avenue of trees he saw stretched out before him the fertile lowlands, with here and there a farmhouse outlined against the sky. As he descended yet farther into the valley he could distinctly hear the serenading of a thousand bullfrogs. The very air seemed full of music But what was that white thing by the roadside that moved j ust a trifle? In a moment the horses were j erked up and a pocket pistol pointed in the direction of the white bundle, while a strong voice called out iiCome out here and show yourself, who- ever you are P Receiving no answer, he leaped out of the buggy and strode briskly toward the object. Imagine his surprise to see by then light of the moon, two little Children fast asleep, and also imagine, if you can, the thoughts that shot through that mansbrain when he recognized his own little son as one of the sleepers, and the other as the child of a neighbor. With what tender care did he place those little truants in the hrigf, doubting all the time whether he was awake or dreaming. As he drove into the home street, he saw the second and fourth i 'floors of the apartment-house brilliantly lighted, and he guessed the cause. What a cry of boundless joy went up as he entered the room with ausleeping child in each arm. We, the babes, were smothered with kisses, and nearly crushed with hugs ; everybody tried to talk at once and there was a general hubbub. The two mothers bubbled over witli Joy, whlle I sat astride my 'daddyis knee and gleefully told the story of our strange adventure up to the point where we fell asleep, and daddy told his part amid tears of joy. Now donit you think that experience taught me a lesson? . KENNETH HENDRICKS. Vv Meet me at Ringlerts Natatorium.