To the Editor of the "Norra-Cniwa Datuy Ni Sin,—Ae one who has bad almost nni-{qne experience of the wily ways of the Shanghai beachcomber, whom I have come to regard as the peripatetic philosopher of the China coast, I hasten to endorse all that your closely reatoning lady correspondent advi Her reference to the public advertisements of the central idea which ber letter, is not a new one, as sh evidently well aware; bat its systematic, consistent application and control by Talat constituted committee is, seation, and undoubt-
my oficial eapecity T have knows gentlemen of the beach who havi successfully kept away from work for 1g. five years, living the while on small oontribations gratefully received," and lying in wait for the person who invented honest work in order to him bodily barm.
'A Shanghai summer evening in our Jovely Pablic Gardens, with " lenient policeman and the soft breezes from the Pootang shore, is the ideal gathering-place for these students of natural history. Here the nightcap under the form of samshu receptacle is passed round, and pleasantly mollified by this stimolent everybody "creeps silently to When, however. the winter winds be-been away the whole commer, others express their sorrow for not: baring tarned up at an earlier date. In vale 1 invariably consign these vagrants to a warmer place, and lecture them on the uselessness of trying to extort money from me. Seeming to know my in-
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