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MAGNOLIA 
Irving Eaton is expected home 
from Worcester Tech. tomorrow for 
the spring vacation. 
Miss Hester Henknist has arrived 
home from an extended trip to her 
native land, Sweden. 
Mrs. Oscar Swanson is once more 
at home after several weeks’ treat- 
ment at the New England hospital, 
Boston, returning Sunday. 
Mrs. D. C. Ballou entertained 
Miss Florence Andrews of Glouces- 
ter at her home on Magnolia avenue, 
Thursday. 
Miss Katherine McAuley, who has 
been spending the winter in Attle- 
boro, returned home for the week- 
end. 
Mr. and Mrs. John V. Carr spent 
Wednesday at Lanesville with the 
latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas 
Dion. 
Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Fowles of 
Gloucester were guests of Mrs. 
Fowles’ mother, Mrs. Maria Brown, 
Magnolia avenue, this week. 
The many friends of the Ralph 
Gardiners will be pleased to hear 
that their little daughter, Helen, is 
back at home after an operation at 
the Massachusetts General hospital, 
Boston. 
Dr. WIrRT ON SIAM. 
Rev. Dr. L. L. Wirt delivered his 
third address to a large and interest- 
ed audience at the Village church last 
Sunday evening. Dr. Wirt has deliver- 
ed some of the most fascinating travel 
talks of the winter’s series here. He 
has been a world wide traveler and, 
in his explorations into some of the 
obscure corners of the globe, has 
come upon many an interesting fact. 
The speaker’s subject was “The 
Land of the White Elephant” and 
embraced some of the strange peculi- 
arities of the places he visited en route 
to Siam, such as the “mixed” kinder- 
garten at Honolulu, the Bible situa- 
tion at Manila, Rajah Brooks’ work 
at Borneo. 
During his visit in Siam, Dr Wirt 
was entertained by Dr. and Mrs. 
Hayes, the former court physician at 
These delightful Ameri- 
high favor with the 
King and lived in a beautiful mar- 
ble palace in the royal grounds. They 
able to show Dr. Wirt much of 
the Siamese life which, as an out- 
sider, he might have missed. Dr. 
Wirt gave two striking examples of 
the extremes of the native life. The 
ie st was a Hen: description of the 
mbling hall, the Fan Tan den. The 
aa was wondittie in a large square 
Bangkok. 
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room open on KobiRcepes eae sides, Wegener. by 
a single smoky lamp, hanging in the 
centre. The players sat Turkish 
about a large mat, about thirty feet 
in diameter, and had in front of them 
their stake and dominos numbered 1, 
2, 3,4 and soon upto 12. The deal- 
er had before him a box of shells and 
his pile of gold, much larger than 
that of the players, and he took the 
shells from the box by fives. At the 
end, if there were four shells left in 
the box, those who placed their 
money on domino number 4, were 
the winners. From the others, the 
dealer with his long handled rake, 
pulled the money across the floor to 
himself. The edge of the coins must, 
perforce, be bent and it is significant 
that one-third of all the coins in 
Siam are thus mutilated. It was a 
motley crowd that had gathered in 
that sordid place to play Fan Tan. 
There were men and women from 
Egypt, England, America, the South 
Sea Islands, and Japan. There were 
haggard faces, bloodshot eyes, and 
furtive twitching hands. Women in 
silks rubbed ee with China- 
men; dukes and lords and_ bare- 
shouldered natives with women of 
the slums of London. 
While Dr. Wirt was at Bangkok 
the crown prince, Chow Fah, was 
cremated with a ceremony of mést 
extravagant pomp. Through Dr. 
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and Mrs. Hayes, Dr. Wirt was invit- 
ed to be a guest in the royal box, The 
day dawned clear and beautiful, a 
fitting day in which to return the 
body of Chow Fah to his gods. Two 
niles of the funeral procession start- 
ed from the king’s palace, the king 
himself leading in his royal car, guard- 
ed by richly dressed soldiers. His 
brother, the High Priest of Siam, 
furnished a contrast by the simplicity 
of his yellow robes. The exquisite - 
casket of carved sandalwood over 
gold, containing the body of the 
prince followed in the funeral car 
drawn with bright ribbons by the na- 
tive women. The High Priest held 
one end of a sacred gold band, the 
other end of which was attached to 
the prince. Prior to the incineration 
thousands of the Siamese people had 
come to the temple to kiss the gold 
band and to breathe prayers, which 
Chow Fah would answer after his 
body was returned to his fathers. At 
intervals of fifty feet bamboo towers, 
seventy feet high, had been erected 
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