To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Dart News."
Sir,—For some time I have had it in my mind to appeal to you for leave to expose through your esteemed paper the eyesores one has to sce when passing along the North Szechuen Road Extension. On taking up to-day's issue of the "N.-C. Daily News" I saw a leaderette with the title "A thing of beauty"; that decided me to call attention to the blots on the chief thoroughfare in the northern section of our city.
It does one good to read of the public spirit of residents in certain districts who permit their gardens to bloom in the public view so that the poorest may catch a glimpse of beauty as they pass by. May the publicity you give to this good deed encourage others to do like-wice unti] Shangha! chal! appear to the stranger to be what it really is—a city of gardens.
I observe with pleasure that the letters you have published from residents in this district have borne much fruit. see notices poster on blank walls forbidding the display of obnoxious advertisements and in places where only mud footpaths existed clean cement pavements are being laid down which will provide a refuge for our children from the clamorous motor cars that often overcro-d the roadway. Still there remains very much to be done. There are a number of evil-looking tea-shops which are a disgrace. Why cannot the proprietors be compelled to keep them clean? Even a coolie has a right to decent surrounding when he sips the hot water that he calls tea—the only poor diversion he can afford.
There are, too, a "few bean-curd shops that make one wish for a fire to sweep them out of existence. These are kept in an indescribable state of filth. There is one at a
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