Tue opening cruise of the Sgiling Club on Saturday Inst was a success, as amasomonts generally are in, Shanghai. If jan independent observer settle among us for a little while, ho would probably notice how well every kind of recreation. is provided in Shanghai. With a 'emall foreign population Shanghai does an enormous trade; trade that, has: become thoroughly systematized in the forty years of our existence so that a mob larger business is done by an actually smaller number of residents than were here twenty years pince. The grooves in business now works have been 80 well laid down and adhered to, that ion, pud the general improvement in the health pf the community la no doubt partly.due to /ateady. purenit of out-door.amusement after business hours. At four or five o'clock we -have.a small edition of Our offices pour out in. thin, bub steady stream, their bard-worked coonpants; some the boat-houses, some.to the cricket field, some to lawn-tonvis, or racket, and few tothe gay: flent of yachta, that adorns the rapidly-silting up estuary of the Soochow River. Unfortunately we have no fixed ppst-time as they have in London, and as letters can be. sent nite us with the outside world at.any rd the convenient steamers, that
time, it is not alweys.that we can get away for two or three hours of -di light, even in the long: days.with which we are now blessed by the advancing year. Bat when men can get away, there are few.amusements on a hot evening that can compare with: the pleasure of a pail in a -centre-board yacht. Twenty years ago, when fow steamers visited the sport, ling-vessels conveyed practically
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