war-ery for any of the var.ous firms throughout the world which] manufacture this particularly essential accessory to modern sie To such firms we commend without hesitation the account given in "Letter from High Altitudes" written by our Tachienlu correspondent and published to-day on Page seven, in which he mentions the head porter of the Panchen Lama, who is probably the greatest devotee of lifts that the Szechvan-
'Tibetan border has yet known. The' gentleman in question has made the} JSequaintance of all the notabilities China from Chang Tso-lin downwards, but it is not of these people that he discourses to the merchants} lof the Tibetan marches, but he tells them of the wonders of Sincere's Hire in Nanking Road. That has} been his great discovery in the course of his wanderings through China: it has fascinated him from the point of view of utility, from the point of view of religion? from every point of view in fact: and he would have lifts in Lhasa. Possibly Lefore very long some astute person in the far west who possesses mechanical genius will contrive rand-worked: imitation, buy whether lor not, we must admit' that here we! Rind "x" great" pionde¥ of ~eommeree probably the sort of man who will persuade many people that lite is not worth living unless they occupy building with a lift in it, This type of man is all important to com merce; he may well be described a3} its nest apostig; and bear.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.