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Thus to the sighing of bamboo and banyan trees along the River of Perfumes sang the minstrels of Annam last week of the coming of a new Queen. The cultivators of rice turned from their fields; on the river bank the elephant washers turned from their elephants. In the Imperial Red City itself the three Dowager Empresses, relicts of the late Emperor, looked up from their...
...Time in the Old Town Tonight" (1896). With ragtime the Negro composers came north, the men who founded present-day Harlem. Negro Rosamond Johnson was one of Marks's protégés. He wrote "My Castle on the River Nile" (1901), "Under the Bamboo Tree" (1902), a melodic inversion of "Nobody Knows de Trouble...
...When was "Schooldays" published? "Under the Bamboo Tree?" "Asleep in the Deep...
...Park, Md., 25 years ago, they were pestered by a young Army corporal named William C. Ocker who wanted to take lessons. When they made their first successful test flight for the Army at Ft. Meyer, Va., Bill Ocker was there as an armed guard. From a greasemonkey and bamboo polisher at Curtiss Flying School, Corporal Ocker rose to be a pilot, then an inventor. Flying upside down in the clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone was scoffed at, he built a little black box full of indicators...
...where it is prized for its song, kept in cages. In China the cricket comes into its own. Chinese like its monotonous chirping, which resembles their own music, and think it lucky. Twelve centuries ago palace ladies were keeping crickets by their bedsides in golden cages. Peasants made tiny bamboo cricket cages which they carried in their bosoms or swung from their girdles. During the Sung dynasty (A. D. 960-1280) Chinese began encouraging their crickets to fight each other...