ForeicNers in China never weary of reading the reminisconces of those who can look back a few decades on life as it then was in this country and compare it with the present; and we certainly have no hesitation in calling attention to the delightful sketch on the opposite page, entitled ''Manchuria after Thirty Years." Apart from the mere emotional pleasure of reading, there is a deeper value in the observations of ''Essen Third."" The differences he has found, though striking enough at first view, are largely superficial. The Chinese soul still wears the pigtail, though his head, apeing the West, has cut it off. That is a truth which we in Shanghai, with our motor-ears and picture palaces, with our efficient police and smoothly running public services of all kinds, too often forget. Even in the Treaty ports we should realize more vividly China's essential slowness to change. Here in Shanghai we are a metropolis, where the luxuries of life blind us to its realities
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