To the Editor of the "Nonvy-Cuixa Dany News."
Sm,—There are a large number of ret Incards in Chinese posted all over the Settlement. They are indecent and filthy in the extreme. If translated into English they would not be suffered to remain in evidence a single hour. There are x large number of Western ladies in Shanghai now who can read Chinese and it is a standing disgrace to the Model Settlement that every sense of decency should be outraged by having these offensive advertisements staring one in the face almost everywhere, How {ong this nuisance has existed I do no! know, but I can vouch that it has been going on for the last three months with no abatement.
The Mubicipal Council have done much in the past to make the Government of Western nations admired by the Chine: I sincerely hope that before this new century, from which we all hope so much, is mach older, the Council will cleanse all the walls of the Settlement from this great disgrace.
That no one may mistake my meaning I mention that I refer to the placards on which occur in big print the three characters Tam, ete, 8. Poutarp. 3rd January.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.