I wonder are Geysers much used'for the purpose of bath heating in Shanghai? Here they seem lately to have advanced much in popularity, especially in small flats or houses where the cooking is done by means of a gas stove. In future I think people will be somewhat shy of them as by means of one a terrible fatality occurred last Sunday. A Hampstead photographer went to have a bath during the afternoon and as after an absence of two hours his mother saw nothing of him, she tried the bath-foam door and finding it locked became frightened and raised an alarm. A neighbour burst open the door and found the unfortunate man dead on the floor. A doctor was called in and said 44 death was duo to poisoning by carbonic acid gas caused by the fumes from the geyser, which had been unable to escape owing to the window having been only open about an inch and a half. The geyser is said to have been a good one and in, perfect order, but—said the doctor—it should never be used unless the window is wide open as the steam from the hot water helps to beat down the fumes from the gas and retards their escape unless there is a clear current of air. I had often heard that geysers were dangerous but thought the fear lay in explosion. This however is another terror and seems as though they were best avoided altogether. name on coming into a fortune. This is the unforeseen. He recognises Margaret at once and lets her see that he knows, but she won't discuss the matter so does not know of the letter. Maxwell undergoes an operation and gets his sight back when he of course recognises her (another unforeseen only one knew it must happen). He is naturally highly indignant and she, thinking he should not have doubted her, will not explain so they would have separated had it not been for Drummond (formerly Haynes) who produces the letter and sets everything straight. There are other characters: people who say and do amusing things. The old General who carries on a loveafiair with Maxwell's maiden aunt interrupted only when he has bad attacks of gout; Margaret's younger sister Bee, who goes in for things and tries alternately novel writing, composing, art, and hospital nursing at intervals of only a and thinks she has mastered other truly awful boy whom nothing Miss Evelyn Millard was quite ming as Margaret, Mr. Cyril Maude lent blind clergyman and ynesworth a sympathetic 1¢s though he never looks in the least soldier, In the unsatisfactory part of Traquair Mr. C. M. Ballard was perhaps best of anyone, in fact, Ido not think his performance could have been bettered. Mr. Eric Lewis, Mr. A. E. Matthews, Miss Dorothea Baird, and Miss Marie Linden completed the very excellent east.
J.K.
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