University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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THE L1NoU1s'r 27 Proportions with all the other odors, that ancient mustiness pervading eV0l'y nook of the sleeping Oriental Giant, which can be fully appreciated but cannot be described except by the term Chimes-ey g all this crowded' for il place in my olfactory consciousness. Hx ,.,- --1 ,. Lkx N--. ig, N A Tea House I wondered what Chinese lirst attempted to catalogue all the diverse Slllells of his land. Evidently seine sort of classification exists, I reasoned, for it would seein the Chinese evince such a desire to learn of any hitherto Unknown odors that they have adopted as the name for newspapers, new-sinells-paper. A group of laborers, with huge claw-like hoes, were Striving to uncover the drain which lay to 0110 Side like the curb skirting all American street. The drain itself consisted of nothing more or logs than a scooped-out ditch live or six inches deep covered by long Hat stones Placed end to end. Perhaps this gutter was meant to carry drainage to a Canal farther down the street, or it might have been the purpose for it to 310110 toward the pond a quarter lnile back, but from U10 tendency of water to Seek the lowest level it seemed evident to 1110 that it would stand stagnant right where it had been poured into the ditch. When the Qooligs finally pried loose a stone, I concluded that the foul filth and muck eXposeclco11taineda complex of smells with enough potency to arouse coin- lllent on the needs of China in most ally 5'lieu'-Sm0HS'll3llC1' for a month. fC'onc'luclczZ on page I-301

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.. f ' D IDE LIGHTS if, .fl 4'1,.ff' 'ffffaf v, Ag? fn ,lm Q -L1 I Lv 1 SXJZZIVI 'gl 'ln QQe5gglltg'- CHI ESE wg A 'E J Q M I E I SENDING MONEY T0 THE DEAD BOUT ten 0'elock one evening we were returning to our home outside the city of Chinkiang. Our narrow rocky road lay between low hills covered with graves. The eoflins had been placed on top of the gI'0und, or in a sl1allow trench, and then covered with earth, leaving little mounds, as if the land were infested with gigantic pocket gophers. The sky-line on either side of us was an undulating series of graves where those fallen seemed to crowd each other in death even more than they had in life. We wondered whether we could make our way through the crowd, if all the graves on the hill could suddenly be opened and their occupants resurrected. Perhaps it was because graveyards are supposed to be gruesome that S01nething within us wanted to be afraid g perhaps it was because the little road seemed so uncertain, or because of the cold wind and inlay darkness. Then far up the road we spied a little light, flaring up for a minute and then dying away. We wondered if some beggfll' might be trying to keep Warm over a little blaze of dried weeds, or whether the fire had been Started by Hreverackers exploded at a funeral. App1'0aCl1il1g, we heard a low wailing, as of someone in severe pain. PPGSCIWIY: when tl10 fitful little fire burned more brightly, we saw a crouching form bending over the flame, and partly silhouetted by it. The moans and cries became more distinct, and seemed to take the form of a weird Chant, punctuated by half-choked Sobs. The mourner, who was H .Young Woman Of P0l'h3JpS twenty years, was burning paper money before tllf' SWVG at H10 1'0adSifle. 4 29 9