United States or Ecuador ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He was inexperienced in the matter of flash-lights, and that eventful day was to end in still another shock. For when the powder was touched off and the room was illumined by the lurid glare, high above the inevitable chorus of screams and laughter, sounded Hobo's yelp of terrified surprise.
One of the terrible Feminine Flash-lights that every careful traveler discovers in the Orient is the presence of Japanese girls in the segregated sections of Shanghai, Seoul, Peking, Nanking; and even so far away as Singapore.
E. D. Soper's book "The Faiths of Mankind" in which there is an entire chapter called "Where Fear Holds Sway." "Where is it that fear holds sway?" the reader asks. The answer is, "In the Orient"! Yes, the whole Orient is one great gallery of dim, uncertain, weird, mysterious Flash-lights of Fear.
It is true of China and Korea; it is true of Borneo to a marked degree; and it is true of that great mass of conglomerate humanity that we think of as India. These and other flash-lights of fear remain, and shall remain forever in my mind.
This particular illustration of the peculiar workings of the Japanese mind might have been included in the chapter on Flash-lights of Fun; were it not for the fact that the Japanese officers themselves call these old church hymns "Hymns of Freedom." The Japanese are just as much afraid of these "Dangerous Thoughts" in Japan as they are in Korea.
"This is Peabody's darkroom, where he develops the flash-lights he takes of the hieroglyphs! Chester has a right to be furious!" Impulsively she would have pushed past Everett; but with an exclamation he sprang in front of her. "No!" he commanded, "come away!" He had fallen into a sudden panic. His tone spoke of some catastrophe, imminent and overwhelming.
And back of all these Flash-Lights of Flame one remembers the path of a single star on the smooth surface of Manila Bay at night; and the phosphorescent beauty of Manila Bay where great ships cleave this lake of fire when the phosphorus is heavy of a Summer night; and every ripple is a ripple of flame.
It was a sight never to be forgotten; one of those Flash-lights of Freedom, which burned its way into my soul with the hot acid of indignation. This injustice and indecency in the treatment of a pure girl made my blood run hot in my veins. The look on her face I shall never forget. It was such a look as the martyrs of old must have had when they died for their faith. "Good-by! Good-by!
"And it is all because of their awful fear that the gods will be displeased if they give birth to a girl baby!" The second outstanding flash-light of fear comes from Java. In the chapter on Physical Flash-lights I have described the old volcano of Bromo. It is a terrible thing to look into. Great fissures in the earth, belch thunder, sulphur, fire, and lava.
But they stand out; three flash-lights of fear above all: One was told me by Zela Wiltsie Worley, a college girl, now a missionary's wife, who has known what it means to lie on the floor of her home an entire morning with machine gun bullets crashing through her home, between the fire of two revolutionary armies. "I was talking with my Amah she is the girl who cares for our children," said Mrs.
Word Of The Day