one fe alcae wut interested owcnelf. Whether it he bwaking fools' aet in fon ich" onr.pernanalitien tonttuate the wrwae, vending rea in erenmatuncen we hue allured, Untent "nuewn declared the Branktin Cart ther publicity ta chat After three hours of golf or tennis on a steaming hot summer afternoon in Shanghai, one is ax parched fund dry as a bone, one $0, at stinset, after a shower and a change, one: drops into the American club for tevies of cool drinks and a chance meeting: with friends while looking down into Nanking Road, Shang-agree, so that the effect and sutistying ax if there were no later word in dress. It has an interesting corollary." TE x newcomer into unwise of unkind as to put on [the latest thing in gowns, which she has certainly" brought. with, her" in
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sree cool steer. trunks, she pared pets of fortune who hold a fat purse. The average foreigner fits very high in that scale by income, and, whatever his personal attributes," is from the moment of this arrival a member of an exotic aristocracy.
In the Chinese castes of labour the divisions are inflexible. A coolie may become a house boy by good for~ tune, but a house boy will starve before he steps down to become a leoolie. No one grade of labour will Ido the "pidgin" of another grade. whose sole are mao: cha east Save Maced is made up of they almost never rs As it grows nearer eight and the street darkens after the long sum-loose control, and guests are a wel~ come sign to the household staff.
"The guests arrived. As each car passed the gate in the high wall of the compound, the gatekeeper an-uaupeed it by a'shout. The coolie opened the house door. The boys, ficiently and without hurry or eon fusion, as the guests entered, appeared at hand to take their wraps, Every one talked at once. A di tinguishing mark of Shanghai's social life is that one almost never, For example, the most. modest mer twilight, one leaves the com-|hcars a phrase, much less a eon-[Shanghai household, requires reauines Ave fortable observation five posts at the|versation, at the versation, one is too busy playing to be serious. recording. Every Ev club windows to hurry home to worth land looks after the service of the cone calls, and the Boys in white gowns passed horstable, the stores, the wine-cellar, nearest white-gowned attendant hur-Aanvres of all the epiced and jand the other servants. The cook ries forward from the cloud of seasoned relishes that ever were inis an artist, the lord of the kitchen ling at attention against vented, until one imagined. there range. By'the Chinese, he is rated Boy, go catch the car cauld not be any dinner intended to Jas the social equal of a doctor, and One does not expect follow. But dinner followed, most he will do nothing menial. AN' such literal obedience, because the boy is elaborately, with perfect service and Work is assigned to the second cook, 'a loud cheerful sound of voices and or "learn pidgin." The coolie scrubs. eat Tne yen tte dot floors. The amah is Indy's maid. ara, og. rot Not one of these would do a stiver doorman to the chauffeur, and.
'A Typical Evening lof the work of the others. He would Sere a axe eco, atthe evening was oat panned Tt rather lose his place than to lose his poe red aloe ere "face." Indeed, the Chinese staff is not unlike the domestic staff of Neal vu og Menara, weented tile many an English household, Any household more complex than the "most modest" one has corres-a as serail oe San ade Be ce ce cree ces toes on ce a ceed Jpondingly more servants. The result!1. is the essence of luxury, extends to the last detail.
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