University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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LINGUIST ADVERTISER Furnish Your Home in Wicker We can help you furnish your home attrac- tively and substantially by our well made, durable articles, either in natural color or stained. Wicker is light, cool, and com- fortable,-a delight to both owner and guest. In numerous patterns we make tables, settees, desks, lamp stands, dressers and dressing tables, children's furnishings and any variety of chair desired. Raw materials from Hongkong selected with care. Puiees most reasonable Kwan Fall Yueng Store No, 209 Fu Dung Djai, South City Nanking

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1 HE LINGUIST Smlth, Mlss Ellen E .......... Steward, Mr. Albert N .......... Stone, Mlss Myrtle M .......... Taylor, Miss Mabel ............ Thelle, Mr. Notto N ............. Townsend, Miss Mollle ......... Trimmer, Mrs. Clifford S ...... Voss, Dr. Charles H ....... ..... Waldron, Mlss Rose E .......... Webster, Mlss Florence A... Woodbridge, Dr. Caspar L .... Woodbridge, Mrs. Caspar L... Woodbridge, Miss Jeanie W .... Worth, Mr. Charles W .... ..... Worth, Mrs. Charles W ....... Yaukey, Mr. Jesse B ............. Methodist Episcopal Methodist Episcopal Methodist Episcopal ...... Methodist Episcopal Norwegian Mission. Soc. Methodist Episcopal .Methodist Episcopal .Presbyterimh South Methodist Episcopal .Baptist, North ....... Preshytorimi. South .Presbytei'imi, South l.'resbyterian, South ...... .l'resbyterifLn, South Presbyterian, South ' 1 1 63 Kiukirmg, Kiangsi Nanking, Kiangsu Kiukiang, Kizmgsi Chinkiang, Kiangsu Nanking, Kiangsu Kiukiang, Kimigsi Nanking, Kinngsu Sutsien, Kimigsll Kiukiang, Kimigsi I-Imigchow, Chekiang l-laichow, Kinngsu Huichow, Kiungsu Kiangyin, Kiangsu Kimigyin, Kiengsu Kiangyin, Kiangsu Retormofl Cl uroh in U. S.Yoc-how, Hmmm

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LINGUIST ADVERTISER 165 WE GIVE YOU DOUBLE INTEREST PERSONAL INTEREST 42 INTEREST SAVINGS accounts in this Bank yields 4W interest compounded semi-annually. l,000 invested today at this interest rate will amount to l,8l l.40 in I5 years. BUT the interest rate is not all that your account yields. We give personal interest not only to your savings account, but to the multitude of small services that a modern bank can supply you. .Q-.....l-v 6,000 Accounts in 250 Chinese Cities The American-Oriental Banking Corporation The Bank of Personal Service Nanking and Szechuen Roads. Shanghai- In due season the class received the words for full and empty. Going to his private teacher one young aspirant to future greatness wishing to make a line impression on said teacher, when asked to give a borrowed meaning for the two words, replied f'Your head is full but my head is empty. His attempt would have carried the day if the Chinese reasoned as we do in this regard. However they regard an empty head as one capa- ble of receiving something and a full head as one into which nothing can enter. What this overly polite fellow actually told his teacher was i' I am indeed a very clever fellow while your head iS Sfllid iV01'y- l- In the Nanking dialect the words for gift and forthe nether regions are very similar being respectively lee-u and dee-u. About Christmas time the class was asked to use why' in asking a question and then answer the question. One member proponnded this q110Stl0n Why does the child like Santa Claus? S110 then gave this answer 'VBQQQUSC hg gives the children dee-u fhelll.