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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1927
THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY
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BOOKS OF THE DAY
PECUADILLOS
"The Son of the Grand Eunuch"-by
Charles Pettit (Boni & Liverlight,l
$3.00.)
"It's philosophy is also Chinese-
very Chinese indeed!" explains
Charles Petitt in the preface toI
"The Son of the Grand Eunuch"-a1
wholly unnecessary explanation after
the description in the first chapter
of the exercises incident upon the
going to sleep of His Majesty the
Holy Man, Son of Heaven. Follow-
ing this detailed account of Chines
philosophy translated into act on is
another description of the most sump-
tuous feast in the land with jelly
composed of ten-year-old eggs aged
in the royal dung heap. Without a
doubt, the book is Chinese.
And having solved this problem,
and established his case, Mr. Pettit
proceeds to enjoy himself immensely
throughout 254 pages of entertaining
what-not. He, reminds one of Law-
rence Sterne in his deliberate de-
light in the under side of humor, and
he interjects frequently the contem-
plations "unbilical of the buddas,"'
"Such a stench!" and like phrases
varying from the mildly subtle to the
doubtlessly frank. But he is through-
out exceedingly charming as though
he were openly painting little red
and green figurines in ridiculous po-
sitions and then chuckling to imagine'
how the Boston censors would gasp,
and how other less rigid individuals
would chuckle along with him. '
There is more than once a hint that.
all that is Chinese may not be re-
stricted to the Chinese, too. For in-
stance at the feast, Li Pi Siao, the
Grand Eunuch, 'with truly epicurean
restraint . .inhaled its odor while
admiring the dusky hue of this rare
delicacy. From time to time he
smacked his tongue against his palate,
in the manner affected by the pale-!
face Barbarians when sampling a vin-
tage of wine." There is also a def-
inite "dig" at modern conventionali-
ties in the filial sorrow of the son
upon the death of his brother. Very
touching, yes? .
Mr. Pettit has shown himself an
artistic rogue. He has written a "bit
of history" which one may doubt. It1
is the sort of thing in literature that
a goldsmith or a vase maker would
create in his art. Exquisite but not
compelling as would be the paintings
of Velasquez, the symphony of Han-
del. His characters are artistic little
figures, albeit the women are help-
less little creatures-still they are
beautiful. There is something poetic
in the literary names which he gives
to the eighty and one concubines, Miss
Smile-of-a- Rose-at-the - Dawning - of
Spring and all the rest. Then there
is Violet Town, the pecadillos of the
Khonghouses, and the delicate de-
scriptions, frail as translucent china-
ware, of the pigs in the poisonous
marshes. It is a Dresden china group
of figurines.
There is something aggravating to
a woman in the dolorous sob of the
author upon the freeing of women in
1912. It is hardly fair, but from his
viewpoint with the example of the
tottering (tottering because her feet
were broken at an early age as befits
a lady of taste), Chti, in her gentle
unmoral state, before him, the sub is
understood.
So let us not imagine that Mr.
Pettit, after the manner of Anatole
France or Voltaire has deliberately
set about to picture history and hu-
man foibles without a delightful
sugar coating. He has given to his
reader, a print, done in soft colors
and fine lines emphasized by the most
delicate of shadings-Shall we say
Chinese Philosophy? Yes, Chinese,
indeed!
-M. L. W...
FORD IN "SPIRIT OF
AND LATER F
(By Associ
DETROIT, Aug, 12.-Henry. Ford
sat at the controls of one of his own,
airplanes Thursday and for a few
minutes piloted a notable party, in-I
cluding Col Charles A. Lindbergh,
above Ford airport.
It was Mr. Ford's first exepriencel
at the "stick" and was made possible'
by the dual control of the big Ford
tri-motored planes. One of the ques-
tions unanswered today was "Whatit
would have happened if Mr. Ford had I
'frozen' to the controls?"
"Freezing" to the controls, accord-
ing to local fliers, is not an uncom-
mon occurance in the case of a per-
son handling the "stick" for he first
time, and a severe physical "jolt"
sometimes is necessary to break the
embryo pilot's hold.
Enjoys His First Ride
Harry Brooks, chief pilot of thel
Ford organization, who had charge
of the big Ford plane and sat oppo-
site the motor manufacturer while the
latter occupied a control seat, did not
discuss the possibilities of the situa-
tion.
The flight in the big Ford plane
followed by a few minutes a ride' in
the "Spirit of St. Louis" with Col.{
Lindbergh, which was the first flight'
Mr. Ford ever had made.
Col. Lindbergh and the automobile
manufacturer were inspecting va-
rious .planes houses in the hangars at
the airport.
Suddenly the young colonel said:
"Mr. Ford, I've never had a pas-
senger in the 'Spirit of St. Louis.' I'd
like for you to be the first passenger."
"All right, let me know the next
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time you are here," Ford replied.
"All Right, I'll Go"
"Well, what about this time, right
now?"
"All right. I'll go with you."
Later Mr. Ford said:
"I took a flight because Col. Lind-
berg asked me to as a personal fav-
or. I couldn't help it."
Col. Lindbergh's plane was in
readiness at Ford Airport today for
the trip to Grand Rapids, he next
point on the flying colonel's air tour.
Lindbergh spent the night with
Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier, commander
of Selfridge Field, and flew to the
Ford hangars during the morning in
a Selfridge pursuit plane.
Col. Lindbergh took off at 11:20
this morning for Grand Rapids.
A few minutes after his hop-off, a
Ford plane, carying his mother, Mrs.
Evangeline L. Lindbergh, took off.
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Merle H. Anderson, Minister
Division and Catherine Streets
Seventh Sunday After Trinity
July 24, 1927
Henry Lewis, Minister
Thomas L. Harris, Assistant
8 a, m,-Holy Communion.
11 a. m.-Morning prayer and Set-
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4 to 6 p. m.-Musicale and Tea at
Harris Hall.
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Arthur W. Stalker, D.D., Minister
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Margaret Stair, Student Director
10:30 a. m.-Morning Worship. S'er-
mon, "Relative Values," by Rev.
Bingham.
12:00-Student Bible Class at Wes-
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leader.
6:00 P. M.-Wesleyan Guild devo-
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7:0Q P. M.-Friendship Half Hour.
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