Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1918 — STRANGE SIAM [ARTICLE]

STRANGE SIAM

A humming bird fantasy created from porcelain. A man plucking a peacock for dinner under the trees. -• I Temples, many-roofed, pillared — minarets and towers and walls. The canals covered with boats of all kinds; the markets held on the water. The doggers of the hill tribes, in flat silver cases, for sale in the Chinese junk shops. t The jungles of the North creeping about the feet of the bronze Buddha sitting among ruined walls. The elephant, a dirty gray, trumpeting petulantly at command, his four great legs fastened with chains to the floor. The gambling hall, as large as a city block, where the women, with short hair like bottle brushes, sit playing, cross-legged on the floor, fanning their babies in the stifling heat. The blue-eyed cats, lying with tuck-ed-in paws in the midst of the sidewalks crowded with coolies; batianas; black, clangorous crows against yellow sunsets; adventurous naked babies wearing silver anklets. —Asia.