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...publicity. Abolished. In addition many minor taxes were abolished, including those on the following items: Cameras, films, firearms, ammunition, smokers' articles, slot machines, mah jong sets, objets d'art, jewelry, bowling alleys and pool rooms, shooting galleries, riding academies, yachts, deeds and conveyances. Taxes on lower-priced cigars were reduced...
Wilde's imagination was never "fired," but of all stimulants to its lucubration the Orient was most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants...
Taxes abolished included those on jewelry, firearms (except pistols) and ammunition, mah jong sets, pipes, cameras, films, art works, yachts, slot machines, brokers, pawnbrokers, etc., deeds and conveyances...
...Mah jong sets...
...agree with some scientists that tales of them arose from our forefathers' reminiscences of brontosauri and kindred fauna. But he is very polite and does not press his own ingenious theory until the very end. There he also says a word about four modern dragons? Respectability, Bigotry, Cant and Mah Jongg...