A lady just arrived from Home has been confessing to astonishment -upon finding Shanghai so well dressed. It is not the case of a places of this earth, but simply a contrast between provincial styles of spending and our own dearly beloved manner of going about things. Now, of course, comparisons are inevitably dangerous, and very possibly one coming from a munition centre where money was lavished on fur coats by the very very nouveau riche might find no difference, save perhaps in matters of taste, and possibly not even that in every case. But from other parts of the country, where expenses rose and war profits were not, the contrast. would be inevitable, and striking. Not alone in dress would it be so, but likewise in such additions to the sum of human comfort as motor cars, for manufacturers are still staggering under a load of orders which is quite unprecedented. And such being the case it may be permissible to call" attention again to the fact that "old clothes leagues" are starting at Home and in America in a courageous attempt to make prices come down to the limits of an ordinary man's income.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.