Therefore, in view of these contretemps, if a bachelor takes advantage of his opportunities, and becomes a necessary adjunct in a lady's inviting boudoir, he can hardly be called to order for permitting himself the unalloyed pleasure of exquisite company in the privilege of established precedence. A married woman is a human entity of considerable feelings and complex desires, she hasn't enough scope for her mental attributes in this limited sphere, and if there is a slight laxity in her rigorous environment in favour of some hapless denizen, surely her benign efforts are anything but _censur. able. And what would your From times primordial ladies and gentlemen have derived the keenest delight in basking in one another's atmosphere. It is an art that has required great cultivation, and in this tiny, polyglot hole of ours, where feelings are so pent up in these unmentionable dog-days, free vent must have recourse in some commendable fashion. But unfortunately, a8 with everything else in this marvellous city, over-indulgence is so dyspeptic and usually particular instance, although un-ends in a conflagration; so, in this
tidied intimacies have become the vogue, they are at the same time generating the seed of domestic and Popular discord in a manner that may very well mean disaster.
Tue Oppe-cart or Pleasure.
Some people are really so unprincipled; they breed a life of wanton artificiality irrespective of all moral codes.. Such an irresponsible state of existence is nothing short of progressive degeneration, But who cares? Their ill-o'- isp is the moment—few One marvels at the fatuous idiosyncrasies that incline people to such unlicensed appetites, anything that they that impels them to chara perverse As the delinquents are totally unconscious (?) of the dangerous thinness of the ice that they are trespassing on, would it not be time that the town woke up to the needs of a moral fumigation in the abolition of this apple-cart of pleasure? To the man in the street it is a question of surpassing ridicule. He shakes his head with non-comprehension and_ smiles in derision—and, deriding, looks on.
Enclosing my card and thanking you for allowing me to encroach on so much of your valuable space, I am, ete.
Sus.
Shanghai, July 21, DOG-DAY POETS, To the Editor of the "Nortn-Cuina Datty News,"
Sir,—Editors seem to be allowing Dog-day Poets to run amok in their columns just now, and T thought you might allow me to join the ranks, and express an opinion on the above subject as follows are beginning to swell are ascending as well Still with much L.8.D.
One may write P.P.C, Notwithstanding the H.O.L.
I am, etc., Brxat.
Shanghai, July 21.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.