her travels was a "Butterfly Book" on whose pages clippings from Taagazines and papers had been pasted. Others contained poems about butterflies or descriptions of different kinds, or little stories about the flowers they visited. On other pages there were pictures of butterflies scores of different kinds. some of them in colours and handsomely done. Still other pages contained anecdotes about butterflies or some references to their habits, which had been written by typewriter or in long hand. They were extracts from books or pamphlets which could not readily be cut.
_Next came the collection of magazines from which pictures and appropriate items could be clipped, and before those were exhausted reference books were called for and an ermine scarf or two during our July weather.
And gloves—say what you will! of Shanghai, no one will dare dispute the fact that we are reasonably emancipated from that crowning uncomfortableness, gloves on a sticky summer day or night.
Business women, too, are particularly favoured here in that custom' does not impose the tailored suit fetch upon them. The right of the worker to be as comfortable as the lady of leisure is recognized Mere more freely than in London or New York.
And always the ricsha, that boon to the sedentarily inclined, is on hand to save you the effort of walking. Where in the West could shopping expedition be put 3 cupful brown sugar 3 tablespoonful butter.
Wash the rice and cook in plenty. of salted water until tender; drain, and pour cold water through it. Into a buttered baking-dish put a layer of rice, over this "a jayer of pineapple cut in pieces; on this sprinkle a third of the sugar and one tablespoonful of butter; repeat twice, using all the ingredients. Pour in three-fourths cupful of the pineapple syrup. Bake in an oven registering 350° F. for two hours, covering the baking-dish the first half of the time only. This is delicious served with ham lia any style, or fried chicken, or it, may be served with cream for dessert. through more conveniently by person of limited income?
Ice? Yes. Fans? Yes. Private bathrooms to a large extent: service everywhere. Ah yes, there are worse places than Shanghai in the heated solstice. a
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.