To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuisa Datty News."
Sir,—Municipal Notification No. 2709 makes the following conditions in issuing licences to motor-car drivers: "That proper precautions be taken to prevent exhaust pipes discharging in such a manner as to cause annoyance to the public."
Good! The public should be protected! Now if the Council will go one step further and make an addition to the licences granted to hotels, playhouses and tramcars so that everyone which allowed men to give off great volumes of tobacco smoke in the public dining rooms, sitting rooms, theatres, cinemas and cars, should be compelled to furnish' "exhaust pipes" which allow this smoke to go out through the ceiling instead of into the faces and hair and clothing of a suffering public!
If men have reached such a degree of slavery that they must smoke any and everywhere, _re-gardies of anyone else's comfort, they should be compelled to consume their own smoke, or to invent some kind of an "exhaust pipe" which will allow them to give off their smoke in such a manner as not to be an annoyance to the Enclosing my card.
Tam, ete., Oxe or THE Pustic. Shanghai, April 27.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.