The interest aroused by the recent ations in Egypt leads us to relate the story of a reble discovery Which was nade in Shanghai within—the memory of the present—genera tion. (Shanghai generations run frum home leave to home leave, averaging about five years.) The astonishing disclosure was no less than that of the survival of a relic of an ancient form of civiliza ation ©: ing contemporaneously with the jazz a This reincarnation of an earlier and simpler era, well-night forgotten, was by no means not phantom, but the living figure of a young girl differing no outward aspect from her coiapanions in Shanghai's most fashionable set. She belonged to the proper clubs, joined in the most expensive sportsedanced a graceful tango andi paid due deference to the dictates of fashion. Nevertheless it was discovered that while she accepted these things as a part of—her environment and adapted herself te them as a matter of self-pre-ion, she took no absorbing them, and was known at times to scheme for leisure, which she devoted to _reading, writing or solitary stroils in the country.
Fortunately this fact was not unearthed by her parents who would have felt the disgrace keenly, nor yet by the fashionable psycho-analysts who would have drawn unprintable—conclusions. No, the truth of the matter was ascertained by a pro mising young banker, an ardent sportsman, an amateur dramatist a good all round popular fellow, His one great failing, a secret vice which was unsuspected at the time, was that he composed excellent poetry.
During a July dance when the lo occasional sitting-out y he discovered that his partner, this reincarnated relic, Tiked to think! This led to further revelations equally amazing.
less by mutual sympa-thios they avowed a common dislike for shams, face-saving and social whirling. The inevitable tragedy happened. They—married and lived happily ever after. wards—but not in Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.