A Disease from Which We All Suffer—In Hongkong and in Shanghai Homesickness is a disease which visits the strongest of us out here at one time or another. With some it comes rarely, poignant enough Jwhile it lasts" but soon over and promptly forgotten. With others it amounts to a persistent yearning for. the Homeland and all that it means. For the very young arrival, end the "not-just-young-enough"' arrival, it has its dangers—Inck of interest in the day's work, general despondency and in some instances drink, In the great majority of cases, however, it can be overcome by a' stiff upper lip and a deter. mination to enter into all the social end genera amusements which country of exile has to offer. True the remedy may mean the spending fof much money, but it is worth it the long run, In Hongkong they a saying which embodies the wisdom of experience, namely, that the young man's cereer in the East consists of one year running into debt, two years' getting out of debt and the rest of his time in saving and success. To the new arrival confidently looking forward to going Home at the end of his first three years this may not sound inspiring, but it is a mill which most of us go through, and like our fag days at school, ig good for us in the long run,
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