On Monday Shanghai again awoke to Neapolitan skies, but a light breeze made the sunshine more enjoyable than during the sultry fwock-end. Early in the morning azure haze of peculiar density) Presaged the sixth day of the February heat wave.
While the vagaries of the elements are an unfailing source of commonplace discourse, it is astonishing what transforming power a sudden change of the weather has upon our habits, A lady was seen wearing a topee in the Nanking Road on Sunday. Every available car on Monday appeared to have been pressed into service of happy parties flocking to Woosung. Most of us bear extremes cold or heat with a certain amount of equanimity, but whenever the clerk of the weather, with his proverbial fickleness, makes sunshine succeed the cold more suddenly than usual, everybody things of nothing but iced drinks and joy rides.
Although it was Monday, a surprisingly large number of young people of both sexes in motors, ricshas, on horseback, and even on the Huangpu, responded to the call of the open. A brilliant sun shone upon them all day long. But the Siccawei_ experts have uttered a caveat. For some days past stormy weather has been experienced in the Sea of Japan, and already the wind here is veering ominously towards the north.
The warm spell has brought forth an undreamt of number of beautiful Shanghai girls, in bewitching hats, and vivid hued frocks, surely inspired by Futurist design. Some of them leant luxuriously against the cushions in magnificent seven-seater cars, newly delivered and glorious in immaculate paint. Even masculine fashions added a touch of colour to the general air of June, which has invaded Feb-
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