Suly 5.
"Pour Passer lo Temps."
With the promulgation of the opium prohibition Iaws and the determination amongst not a fow of th of that dong to got rid of the noxious habit, it behoves wide-awake people to got up amusements where opium smokers, who sre trying to abandon the habit and those the have lately already done #0, may pass a leisure hour and dive their minds from a craving for the drug. Now the most critical moments to the opium smoker are those which follow well-discussed meal, for than he roguires a good smoke—like the ordinary cigar lover—to help digest dinner." The object of the opium joker who wishes to got rid of his habit should be, therefore, to divert his thoughts from his usual aftormea! pipe, which is a very difficult matter, as oven votaries of the goddess Nicotine will be willing indeed to confess. In order, therefore, to help such people to pass a pleasant hour or two after dinner several Chi-nose gentlemen have started a " Storyteller's Hall" at No. P. 263 Nanking Road, where tea is served and also lemonade to those who wish it, and engaged the well-known comic actor Lin Boo-being, who is also a firat class raconteur, to recite comic stories, so that opium smokers may be assisted to pass assay the critical to exhort people to good deeda and to eschew evil." Not a fow persons who are trying to get rid of the opium habit have already congratulated the promotors, of the Story-teller's Hall on their efforts and have thanked them for giving
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