Our contemporary, the Hong-ong Telegraph," has been comparing the days of old with the Present time and, having consider ed such disadvantages as lack of sewage systems, bad (if any) Arainage, absences of labour-saving devices, bad morals, dungeons, ignorance, medical and other superstitions, and so on, that obtained inthe days of our forefathers, against the advantages, comforts and amenities that characterize existence in these modern times, comes strongly to the conclusion that it has no desire to set back the hands of the clock of time, and that the best frame of mind for us all is to regard the present as the best of all times. That is no doubt more than true, for few of us would care to be deprived of most of the things that the best developments of science, industry and civilization have given us; but none the less there are ocedsions wher some of us, having maybe been tried nnd tested beyond endurance would care for some of the bless ings of modern civilization eliminated from our lives, as in the days of yore before they came into being. One can appreciate the days of old—in the abstract—in that in those times there were no sax phones, gramophones (owned by next-door neighbours) or tele phones; no Fords, brokers' traps or Dieyeles; no jazz with its jazz~ gymnastics; no hits and therefore no shroffs; no tramcars (species Shanghai); no Bolsheviks and commercial politicians; no news Papers... But enough!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.