The month of June had 17 rainy} dave and 12 "cool and clear" or "cool and fair" days until June 25, That, day marked "Summer is here," but how rash a statement to make to a Shanghai sky! Followed five sodden and perverse days until the end of the month, July started out with nine days of "foggy and cool, pouring, rain cloudy and cool, cool, cloudy" and. warm, very hot and' sultry, cool cool, cool and cloudy.
Then my estimable friend took herself off to Peitaiho for a space. When she returned she had difficulty in recognizing the wan faces of summer-stricken Shanghailanders the had lived during the 1926 dog" days, After all this ong is back to where one marted from. Is it not better vethaps Yo outfit for a Shanghai spring until such time as tennis dresses are required?—And what about that most spirit-elevating of all fami tae-oorupations—the buying of 'a new hat? The zest is admittedly diminished, "We have at least one! consolation fro: the diary, however. Ie was July ut year before Shanghai summer put an end to! what, for want of a better term, we! must' calla Shanghai spring.
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