From the melancholy vantage of these mis spent months permit the suggestion for a required course in Ohinese, obligatory upon all comers to Shanghai. Even the tourist should be banded a questionnaire on disembarking and not allowed te regain his boat without giving evidence of having passed the examination satisfactorily. Rather than discourage visitors from land ing, the requirements should be reduced to minimum, perhaps a Knowledge of "maskee" and chop-chop" would be sufficient for stops of less than 24 hours. This would impose no hardship and would be! of the greatest benefit to the trippers after their reten. Many reputations for genuine cosmopolitanism have been built up on less.
Bona fide residents should of
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