The Archive · 1885

The Prevailing Rowdyism

To the Editor of the Nonra-Cutxs Day News, Stn,—Alll peaceably minded denizens of our Model Settlement will hail with pleasure the publication of your Correspondent A. B. G.'s letter in your issue of this moruing.

The time would appear to have arrived whau we should be liberated from the thraldom of rowdyism which la rampant in our midst, The winter season is drawing on when amusements in-doors of a public or semi-public nature are the order of the day, and it dues not seem too much to expect that the pleasures of the orderly should nut marred by a gang of young men whose business it appoara to be to attend social gatherings whether literary, musical, theatrical, or otherwise, to carry on their male practices, One would think that a word from the employersufthe offenders in question would be "sutticient once and for all to stamp out the growing scandal: but as they appear to be inclined to be behind-hand in thole manifest duty, it remains for th community to seek protection by appointing ant individual to Gil the much needed post of "chucker-out," which, as things are at present, would not prove a sinecure, Yours faithfully, Shanghai, 26th October, 1885, WORSHIPPING A POLICEMAN, To the Editor of the

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