We have our dog days in Shanghai during which much is written that can hardly be forgiven, viewed in the cold light of days of lesser heat, but the home papers just to hand ave those when editorial staffs are still struggling through the "silly season." When the sea serpent died an almost natural death and the largest cabbage refused to excite editorial enthusiasm, while the oldest inhabitant died from sheer overwork, it was a matter for some speculation as to what the facile journalist would find to take their places. A substitute has been found in the practice of asking actresses foolish questions—or easy ones for that matter—publishing their replies together with photographs in the most approved style. One of the "features" was headed "Should a yr?' and the answer was given a well known actress, who replied in the emphatic negative. Naturally she could do nothing else. but if the editor in question had gone the whole hog and obtained a symposium of views from all classes of men, the replies, while still being in the negative, might have had for reasons many and diverse grounds. Of course girls should not swear—neither should men—and it does not need an actress to give that answer, but apparently they do. And not' all the wit of man will stop them if they want to.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.