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Adult, 26, worldlywise, once named as corespondents in a Kansas City divorce action. Daisy-&-Violet Hilton argued last week that they knew what they were doing about marriage. They cited Chang-&-Eng, the actual Siamese whom P. T. Barnum made so famed that all conjoined twins thenceforth have been called "Siamese." Chang-&-Eng (1811-74) took the name Bunker and married daughters of David Yates, North Carolina minister. The wives kept separate domiciles in which the brothers took turns living. Chang had ten children, Eng nine. Their descendants are reported still living in the Piedmont...
...HART'S translations are too free to be representative of the Chinese poems -- there is hardly any close resemblance between the originals and his renditions in most cases. To illustrate: "The Loyal Wife's Song" of Chang Chi on page 86, which was the poet's letter to governor-general Li Shih Tao in the form of a loyal wife's song refusing his improper invitation to office, was translated by Dr. Hart as follows...
...19th Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been largely replaced by stumbling recruits. Reeling southward last week the rebels paused briefly at a new capital, Chang-chow. From the coast and from the north, more Chiang troops came to hound General Tsai and his army into the back country...
Famed "Old Marshal" Chang began life as a coolie, made himself the uncrowned War Lord of what is now Manchukuo, had himself scores of wives, reveled in opium, drank hot tigers' blood in the belief that it kept his vitals active, played Japan's game for years and when he ceased to do so was dynamited in his private railway car (TIME, June...
...Young Chang, who openly accuses the Japanese Government of contriving Old Chang's death, set himself up at Shanghai last week in a "modern Chinese house'' full of Grand Rapids furniture and hand-painted cuspidors. He said he had returned to China at the "urgent invitation" of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek who was expected to appoint him to some Government post...