ABSTRACT
Most people think that the Chinese social life is as solemn as a funeral, wrote a leading literary editor to the writer not long ago. Girls of the better families are taught never to laugh in the presence of company, and the provocation must be strong indeed which cause them to forget this rule. The henpecked husband is one of the standing jokes of the people. The expression for this is Kuei che ting teng, that is kneel and hold a candle on his head. An eminent American scholar, in reviewing the writer's book of Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes, speaks of some of the illustrations which present the Chinese children playing their sober little games. But the cheerful side of Chinese life is not confined to the nursery, or to childhood, but is found in all ages and all departments, as well as all ranks of life. Chinese children are fond of cracking jokes on bald heads.
