Feb. 11
Tre horologe of the seasons again indicates the time at which_ the great majority of Chinese celebrate the. beginning of a new year. The winter with its snow and mud, its cold and discomfort, is wilting under the bright beams of spring sunshine. The earliest flowers are peeping out through the snow and though Boreas has doubtless still a blizzard or two in his quiver these are only the Parthian shots which he can discharge in his retreat to his den in the frozen north. The spectras of "age and. want, the ill matched pair'' are less menacing When summer is a-coming in. The school boy is
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