Judge — August 4, 1923 — page 21: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

PUNG WENTY years ago, in Peking, the great Chinese statesman, Li Hung Shang, showed mea game. He called it “ Pe-Ling.” Today thousands of Americans enjoy it as “ Pung Chow.” gorgeous game, the venerable vice- 0} spread before me—gleamin ) rightly painted with miniature paraboOs; birds, and dragons. A fasci- deceptively simple. For if undera apell, I played with Li Hung Chang,drawn inating game Itwo years, as constantl is ever new and inexhaustible game. 3000 YEARS OLD he lure of this game is so strong that oolies would play secretly —at the isk of the executioner’s axe. For since the days of Confucius—five cen- uries before Christ—Pe Ling has been reserved for royalty alone. Not until modern times was it permitted to even he most powerful merchants. A SACRED BIRD hYou have often admired, aflight in hinese tapestries, a striking bird, with ong beak and legs. That is Pe-Ling, Beecdary bird of “a hundred intelli- ences,” to whom for nearl thousand years the éd. About 1850, om among political concessions to rebellious three game was d oolies, was the right to play the royal me. But not under the roya ! name! OUT OF BABEL ith the immediate popularity wide- spread among the masses came con- fusion and distortion of the rules. A lozen different names— Mah-Jong, ah-Diao, Ma-Chuck—are found in ifferent parts of China. The first sets Bei by the foreiguers in: Shanghai appened to come from the province f Ning-Po, where the coolies had debased the sacred Pe-Ling into their pwn familiar Mah-Jong or “hemp- rird. And from Shanghai, the Ning- sion first reached America. your dealer for Pung Chow he Set with the Real Dragons” City CHOW Handicapped 'withia dozen nates and different sets of rules. this magnificent jame, shorn of its most in- features and corrupted intoa rummy,” has, nevertheless, swept into America. It is not the game T learned from sort of Li-Hung Chang and which I have undertaken to organize for American use. Ignoring the var- iations in coolie play, I went back to classic Chinese sourtes for AMERICA’S OWN GAME Thave translated and formulated what I hope will become the authoritative American code, because it accords with the play of the aristocratic Chinese. Bone will crack, and in American cli- mate bamboo will war: to mould and stamp a beautiful and durable set of tiles out of clean and in- destructible ivory pyralin. FOR YOU Since there was no accepted Chinese name—* Ma-Jong” being particularly offensive to cultured Chinese because . So Larranged of its coolie origin and gambling asso- ciations—I evolved a real American name, picking from out of the game itself “Pung” and “Chow”. which I hope you wil two words soon learn to associate with the most absorbing and delightful of pastimes, the most beauti- ful game in the world—Pung Chow. Puxc Cow Company, 342 Madison Avenue, New York. enclosed find $ . Please send me book checked below. 1. HOWTO PLAY PUNG CHOW—From 20 years’ play in China with experts in highest social circles, Mr. Harr has written the first complete authoritative handbook. The real Chinese game and its master-play is mede plain in nearly 100 diagrams. The enlarged edition now ready, contai new material not found anywhere else. points still unknown to many pro Price Pot 8s cons . 2. PUNG CHOW IN TEN MINUTES—A novel method by which be- finners without any teacher may quickly and correctly learn the real Chinese game. All the elements clearly set forth with diagrams in two colors. Price . 25¢ much Mr. Harr makes simple to you fine ional teachers of the Same. g 09 | Street__