SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND
INVENTED AT LAST FOR
CHINESE LANGUAGE
Pacific News Servioe, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON, One of the longest
steps forward In Orential developmetn
reported In many months Is the an
nouncement that Mr. Wong Po Koung
of Hongkong hus Invented a system
of shorthand writing for the Chinese
lunguage, which has just been reported
to the Department of Commerce by
Consul George E. Anderson at Hong
kong.
The Chinese language has long been
regarded by students as one of the
most difficult languages to master and
tiie idea of adapting it to a shorthand
form has practically been given up.
Several years ago the Chinese Gov
ernment sent a special commission to
Europe to mgke an effort to devise
through study of Occffietnal systems,
some simplified method of writing
Chinese but this commission found the
task too difficult. Private enterprise
in China has in the past attempted
the work but nothing useful had come
of it.
Mr. Wong Po Young's shorthand
system is reported to be highly suc
cessful. He has attained a speed of
HO words per minute in writing his
system while one of his pupils has
attained a speed of ninety words per
minute. Several other pupils can
write seventy words per minute.
This is a great Improvement on the
old method of Chinese writing. Up to
this time no system has ever been de
vised by which the writers could
keep up with the speaker.
Chinese reporters have for some years
used a simplified system known as the
Tso Shue.or grassy-hand system.
This system is based on elimination of
many of the helroglyphics and there- |
fore it is unreliable and at best much j
•lower than human speech. I
Mr. Wong Fo Young has reached the
perfecton of his system, the Govern
ment report says, by abandoning the
old lines on which experimeners
worked. He has entirely discarded
Chinese characters. Rev. David Jones
of San Francisco who spent many
years in the Orient worked on a system
but his did not approach the system
of Mr. Wong Po Young. The latter’s
system is based on a classification of
£2 Initial sounds and 33 final sounds
in the Chinese language. These basic
sounds are suffic'ent to build tho
system upon, the inventor says.
The new system Is adapted some
what from such occidental systems of
shorthand writing as the Pitmanic
Doctor Says ftuxated flron DQIill
Increase Strength of Delicate
(people 200% in Hen Days
In many instance*—Persons have
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liver or kidney disease or some other
ailment when their real trouble was
lack of iron ifi the blood.—How to tell.
New Torn, N. Y.—In a recent dis
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has studied widely both In this coun
try and Europe said: If you were to
make an actual blood test on all peo
ple who are ill you would probably be
greatly astonished at the exceedingly
large number who lack iron and who
are 111 for no other reason than the
lack of iron. The moment iron is sup
plied all their multitude of dangerous I
symtoms disappear. Without iron the
blood at once loses the power to
change food into living tissue and
therefore nothing you eat does you
any good; you don’t get the strength
out of it. Your food merely passes
through your system like corn through
a mill with the rollers so wide apart
that the mill can’t grind. As a result
of this continuous blood and nerve
starvation, people become generally
weakened, nervous and all run down
and frequently develop all sorts of
conditions. One is too thin; another
is burdened with unhealthy fat; some
are so weak they can hardly walk;
some think they have dyspepsia, kid
ney or liver trouble; some can't sleep
fit night, others are sleepy and tired all
day; some fussy and irritable; some
skinny and bloodless, but all lack
physical power and endurance. In
such cases, It is worse than foolishness
to take stimulating medicines or nar
cotic drug, which only whip up your
fagging vital powers for the moment,
maybe at the expense of your life
later on. No matter what any one
tolls you, If you arc not strong and
well you owe It to yourself to make
the following test. See how long you
can work or how far you can walk
without becoming tired. Next tak<
two five-grain tablets of ordinarj
nuxated Iron three times per day aftci
meals for two weeks. Then test your
strength again and see for yourself
how much you have gained. I
have seen dozens of nervous
run down people who were
who were ailing all the time double,
and even triple their strength and
endurance and entirely get rid of their
symptoms of dysp: psia, aver and oilier
troubles in from ten to fourteen days'
time simply by taking iron in the
proper form, and this, after they had
in some cases been doctoring for
months without obtaining any bene
fit. You can talk as you please about
all the wonders wrought by new rem
edies, but when you come down to
hard facts there is nothing like good
old iron to put color in your cheeks
and good sound, healthy flesh on your
bones. It Is also a great nerve and
stomach strengthener and the best
blood builder in the world. The only
trouhle was that the old forms of In
organic iron like tincture of iron, Iron
acetate, etc., often ruined people's
teeth, upset their stomachs and were
not assimilated and for these reasons
they frequently did more harm than
good. But with the discovery of the
newer forms of organic Iron all this
has been pvercome. Nuxated Iron
for example is pleasant to take, does
not injure the teeth and Is almost
immediately beneficial.
NOTE.—The manufacturers of Nux
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fidence in Us potency that they au
thorize the announcement that they
wlll forfeit.$100 to any Charitable In
stitution if they cannot take any man
oi women under sixty who lacks Iron
and increase their strength 200 per
cent or over in four weeks' time, pro
vided they have no serious organic
trouble. Also they will refund your
money In any case In which Nuxated
! iron does not at least double your
strength in ten days’ time. It Is dis
pensed In this city by L,omen Bros.,
successors to Butler, Mauro & Co.,
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but on account of the singularity of
the Chinese language It necessarily
has wide differences. The Inventor
says that he exepcts to improve the
system by simplifying it and bv mak
ing cover a wider range.
Should the new system meet all re
quirements, as present indications are
that it will, it will be a godsend to the
Chinese. The Government, all claims
of commerce and Indusry, schools and
other branches will find a simplified
system of writing Invaluable.
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WOMEN ASK
AID TO PICKET I
WHITE HOUSE
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bure.u
WASHINGTON. The Congressional
j Union for Women Suffrage which Is
| in charge of the duty of picketing the
j White House is turning to the se»’
I eral state suffrage organizations for
assistance (In keeping the suffrage
issue visually before the eyes of
President Wilson. The District of
Columbia organization has borne the
brunt of the picketing duty so far but
the various states will be asked to de
tall pickets to relieve the women of '
the national capital.
Under the plan each state will have ■
a day of duty at the White House,
twelve women representing each state
organization. Six will stand armed
with banners blazoned with suffrage
slogans in the colors of the Congres
sional jUnlon, at each of the two
principal White House gates through
which the president motor car passes.
AMERICAN DOMESTIC
ANIMALS SHOW
INCREASE IN VALUE
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON. Increases in the
number of some domestic animals and
decreases in the number of other are
reported by the deparement of agri
culture in its annual statement of the
domestic animal resources of the
United States. Horses decreased 33,
000 in number presumably because of
the heavy exports to Europe for war
purposes The value per head ol
—rses increased $1.34 per head or an
aggregate of $22,843,000.
' The decrease in the number of horses
Is due to the war rather than to the
inr reusing use of the automobile for
up t the outbreak of the war when
rapid exports of horses commenced,
the horse showed a steady Increase.
There was not a single domestic
animal which did not increase in value
compared with last year. Mules In
creased $4.49 a head; milch cows.
$5.74 a head; other cattle, $2.35 a
head; sheep, $1.97 a head and swine,
$3.33 a head. This is a partial ex- '
planatlon of the Increased oost of
living. These prices are wholesale for
animals rather than retail for meat
in the cases of the food animals and
the prices indicate that if the butch
er has raised his prices it is partially
because he has to pay more for his
stock
The country is rich in domestic ani
mals, the total value of all domestio
animals listed being on January 1
$6,685,030,000. an increase of $664,850,
390 or 11 per cent compared with 1916.
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SUFFRAGETTE PICKETS
WEARING REPRESENTATIVE
KENT'S OVERSHOES
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON. Picketing the
White House to advance the cause
of woman suffrage is an arduous task
Jn the cold .piercing weather that
now is visiting Washington and the
I'eminine pickets must be supplied
with the articles of apparel to keep
them warm and dry. Representative
Kent of Californal has discovered this
through bitter experience.
Returning from the capitol the Cal
ifornia congressman looked through
his house which is not far from the
Executive Mansion in search for a
favorite pair of arctic overshoes. He
could not And them and applied to
Mrs. Kent for assistance. She in
formed him that she had lent the long
for footwear to a suffragette on picket
duty at the White House gates to
prevent her feet from freezing.
Congressman Kent replied that he
was glad If articles of his could be of
use to the ladles on duty at the White
House but he beseeched his wife in
the name of domestic happlnes to save
from the clutches ot the shivering
pickets hts leather bunting coat, his
fur-lined motoring gloves and the
heavy woolen stockings wthch his
mother knlted for him. All of his
other possessions, he said, were at the
disposals of the equal suffrage advo
cates.
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