The Archive · 1920

A Question of Taste

To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuiva Datty News."

Sim,—During the fancy dress ball at the Carlton, on Christmas Eve, a young lady' appeared as a Red' Cross nurse.

Those like myself and many others in Shanghai who have been taken caro of by the ladies of the Red Cross on the front, during the war, and who have seen them soothing the dying and closing the eyes of the dead, very often under shell fire—could not see without being shocked this sacred uniform worn at_a masquerade ball, Those who think that the dress of a Red Cross nurse becomes them particularly well have had plenty of opportunity to wear it, since 1014, somewhere else than at a masquerade ball.

Lam, ete., Is Memonra.

Shanghai, Dec. 27.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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