Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1910 — Chinese Scholar on Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Scholar on Marriage.

Sir Robert Hart, speaking of marriage and death customs in the Far East, tells a story of a great Chinese scholar and high official who said that our foreign way of letting the young People fall in love and choose and the Chinese way of first marrying and then making acquaintance reminded him of two kettles of water; the first —the foreign—was taken at the boiling -point from the fire by marriage and then grew cooler, whereas the second—the Chinese—was a kettle of cold water put on the fire by wedlock and afterward growing warmer and warmer, "so that,*' said hla friend, “after fifty or sixty years we are madly in love with each other!*’—Tlt-Blts. Some folks have rats, in their garrets, some have rats in their cellars, and while not a few young ladies have good-sixed rats In thalr hair.