The informaitties of the summer are passing. Soon.''Everybody"" will be bsek in town and Shanghai will have started in upon its formal season, if anything approaching formality can exist in a community so shifting in its social outlines as this is pound to be. Years ago the atitumn would have been recognized as the appropriate season for the paying of the call ceremonious, without which one could hardly know one's friends, and certainly could not invite them to any social function.
This year there will be calls made, it is true, but for the most part they will be made for some veal reason or spring: from a spontaneous desire to see one's friends after the vicissitudes of the holiday period. In many instances, in fact we dare say in most, no cards are left, thus counting for the wail which.omes from overseas at the present day evidencing the passing of the visiting card. {uch complaint emanates not from the users but rather from the makers of visiting cards, who cry, more in sorrow-than in anger: "Oy, tell us, gentle lady, how is the honest stationer-man to earn a living, if this sort of thing keeps up?"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.