To the Editor of the Nozra-Cursa Dany News."
Sim—Can anything be done to better the lot of the monkeys who in happier days were a joy to most children who visited Jessfield Park? They are now housed in cages—none too spacious—in one of the workshops adjoining the conservatories near the Garden Bridge. The cages are by no means clean and have neither straw nor sawdust on their floors (to provide these, by the way, is the only way in which monkeys can be kept really clean or which gives them a chance to keep themselves clean): In spite of the fact that the window was open, the place smelt badly. For animals who love freedom and trees as monkeys do it almost amounts to cruelty to keep the poor little would-be active creatures shut up as these are. Your delightful account of Jessfield gardens a fow days ago sent me off there at once and, missing the monkeys who used to be there, my inquiries resulted in the above I am, ete, Shanghai, Juno 2
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.