A copy of the "Shanghai Ladi Journal" has been sent to which, according to its title, distributed free, by post, to all ladies in Shanghai, and is' published monthly. It bears neither the print of a printer nor the name of a publisher: The following is an extract from it, uncorreeted:—Binningham Tepertors. The ater this Actresses who are appearing: m the Tern and Show's ith ted the ati, of corsets wort The actresser were 40 uncomfortable electricity inthe International Settlement and, as business expands, the work of collecting payment by shroffs becomes increasingly difficult and costly. Tu fact their dicappearance will mean a Iurge economy:
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whether the shroff will ultimately vanish altogether, one would not say, As Shanghai grows aul dusiness conditions become more and more like those of Western citi in which respect we put, as 1 of desirable reforms, res the too easy credit now granted-—there must be fewer shroffs and more. of the system now to be adopted by Electricity Department. And the shroff is a nuisance, His visits variably fall at the moment when one is most engaged on something dog-catchers pounce eagerly on some harmless. pet which has incautiously wandered over the line of the front gate, r. while they give the big and danger ous dog the go-by—shrofts une mercifully dun a regular payer, if hie be a few days late on his monthly but leave the Rawdon Crawley alone, But the shr¢ a part of the old institutions of the Far East: there is a look about him which makes any mistake as to his calling impossible; and his soft, seuffling footfall and cloying pere sistence speak of the leisurely, space more. A a business point of view Electricity Department undoubtedly right.
'A Pathetic Case Court Magistrate, Me. GW! King xentlersan who has had every wet unity wf sifting the thorough. wicked from the purely fortunats—when dealing with Poor woman ette him ree of fratnd will be cit interest The Late Dr. Sun We publish today a very curious letter, quoting a report that the late Sun Yat-sen hud really passed away two or three years before the 1 to th ing instineds of any: naa even more Will they: ap ky forgive yet they generally supposed date of his, demise, a year og' time was being another. This story is not new to tus, though we have not before seen it put xo categorically. Proof of its trath is hardly to be expected, but evidence of the reverse is! plentiful. The present writer, for instance, who knew Dr. Sun well, saw him and had a long conversation with him in December, 1923, Canton. Again in November, 1924, when Dr. Sun passed through Shane hai on his way to Japan and Peking, another member of this staff, who also knew Dr. Sun well, talked with him and had no doubt of his identity. Of course it may be argued that in oth cases the interlocutor had no ranson to suspect any deception, was, therefore, the more
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