ts in Shanghai who it the parks at this, the loveliest time of the year, and see spring in her delicate green drapery are failing in their duty as good citizens of the Model Settlement. Many—unlovely things are to be seen in our streets, but these are man-made excrescences and are rigorously excluded from the enclosures which are sacred to nature and her children, the wild things of the woods and the fields. Our much maligned P.W.D. allows itself to play practical jokes with our roads, but is very tender towards our few open spaces which are kept in such beautiful condition as would not disgrace Kew Gardens itself, An incident occurred at the gate of Hongkew Park the other morning which may be worth rescuing from oblivion to point a moral-or adorn a tale, though it is only one of the unconsidered trifles of every day happenings, very different from the important wars of Tuchuns or schemes of financiers, eager to lend money to the bankrupt and_ tottering Central Government.
The time was that hour when the enthusiasts who take their golf first and have breakfast as an afterthought had given place to those who put those engagements in an inverse order. A
Chinese dressed in a neat lounge suit and accompanied by a young lady, evidently a student from some girl's high school, approached the gate and inquired of the Sikh in charge whether he might enter the park. That functionary scanned him carefully and noting that the lady ~was in Chinese dress inquired ecathingly Ar-r you a Chin-ease "7? The young man confessed that' he was guilty.of
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