which quarter of town, offers the) most exceptional residential advantages. I might remark in this) connexion that any old place we can find a lease would be home sweet home to us, but for academic discussion, in the dining room especially, the claims of various sides, districts, parks, and. ends are being carefully weighed.
Some are being eliminated as it! seems that not being Japanese or! missionaries we shall not be allowed to pay rent in Hongkew although I'm wild w get close enough to that beauuful park to speed up }my tennis and ivrmulate a little golf, to say nothing of strolling in the moonlight to the music of the shed his Wood "He died to make! public band, which is one of the us good." Rut He lives that we swamer's alleviations. I under-may catch his spirit, and wear his stand that if you have children in kind of goodness. And that 1s never dull, respectable, sour, forthe American School it is possible to reside in the north and without bidding, but acquainted with move-losing face, otherwise all social ment, smiling, colour and song, not hopes abandon ye renters here. only white but glistering.
Among my explorations of the city I count in Wayside. I'd never been further east than the Astor Tue annual report of the Shang-Grill since the first day I landed hai branch of the Navy League lhere, but by persevering I dis-shows that the income of the covered a terrace of cozy lil houses branch from subscriptions and most livable. Monty says if we donations during the past year lived down there the waters of the amounted to $1,431.89, while the social swim would close over our expenditure was $1,403.04. The heads without a struggle, but I sum remitted to the parent League hate to admit that my popularity was reduced to £60 as compared jis due only to geographical posi-with £100 the previous year. A tion. Wouldn't you? notification from the parent League mentions that the cost of The Down To Yanorszepoo. Navy," the League's publication, I inveigled Madge into one of now amounts to about £100, and in these little low-necked barouches order to cover the cost, it is sug-mostly affected by. brokers who gested that members of the League leap from bank to bank as the wishing to have copies of this wild cataract or the wild chamois journal should be called upon to or anything else in a hurry leaps pay an annual subscription of $2. nm glory, and we ambled (our With reference to the Union Jao equipage' was not a swift-running! Club at Ichang the Committee cataract) out towards Yangtszepoo. mentions that owing to its inability L didn't dare suggest in advance to obtain the Government grant! that we'd ever consider living out hoped for the full plans have had that way but let her along in pur-to be abandoned, and it has been! suance of our general purpose to decided to build the first floor only. ''See Shanghai now."
We got The annual meeting of the Shang- lost all: manner of times but that hai branch of the League takes only g2ve us @ better idea of how place on Tuesday, March 14. tremendously the industries of Shanghai are crowding out that way. To an extent that means residences as well, because the taipan and sub-taipans seem to like to live where they can keep an eye on their factories.
Every now and then before we left the city proper we'd find residential oases in a commercial desert. Some of them were right comfortable looking and if we owned a smooth-gliding aeroplane or even a motor we could have considered living in one. But as for tramming it, the east side is more impossible' than the central and western districts. Out our way there are always seats for ladies and now and then a man or boy is lucky enough to find a place, but here it looked as if only part of the feminine travellers would be able to sit down on these uncomfortably popular cars, Commurtine From Woosvna.
If it were not for the trifling matter of getting in to work for an unfeeling corporation at 9 a.m. sharp I'd love to live out near the Point or Shanghai College, where I could watch the ships sail hw and cool off in the summer breezes. Or of course it might be more feasible to live at Woosung Forts and commute. Wouldn't one feel thrilled to come into the city every day!
If we are not to shut ourselves off from what few friends we have, however, it seems we mustn't strain their affection by living in any unfrequented resort, so I suppose we shall make a choice among the central, western or French districts. I used to think the latter would be a strain on my vocabulary, but aside from the street signs and the papers sent out by the French Municipal Council the language is about what prevails elsewhere I'm informed. The policemen don't comprenny your French there, but they don't understand your English anywhere else, so what's the difference? If I had a preference for a traffic squad in turbans rather than inverted basins for headgear I should vote for the west, but that's irysipelas to me, as Miss Malaprop would say.
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Monty says we must be very careful to get in the right kind of a neighbourhood, and that if we try to pull any Greenwich Village stuff we'll find we can't get away with it in Shanghai. He even intimates that his devotion wouldn't be equal to calling on me in an alley, or ''passage" and I think he even quails before the word lane. That would be a good acid test of friendship, wouldn't it? I think. it beats the flinging of a glove to the lions all to bits, so much more practical, don't you know.
If you hear that we are residing on an alley you'll know that I wanted to learn the worst at once.
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