The streets are already gay with the somewhat garish pictures that at Chinese New Year seem to play somewhat the same part as our Christmas cards, although rather resembling old-fashioned valentines.
isa little fatiguing here that we goon with New Year from October till March. In October we have to make up our packets of cards and good wishes to go home. November we send them down river. In December we send them to one another. Tu January we receive them from Shangh: Then comes China New Year, and Christmas cards and calendars keep a-dropping in till the end of March or beginning of April, five months after we began sending them off. Still we get them in the end and by that time China New Year is over.
25th January.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.