'Thirty Years' Service Two old ships of the China Navigation Company have gone the way of all things, and have finished with their service, which has lasted many years. These vessels, the Shansi and the Foochow, have been sold and have gone to the breaker's yard at Kiangnan.
The Shansi was built in England in 1898, and made her last run last! month." For over 30 years the ship had plied up and down the coast and done good good work for the owners.
The Foochow was built three years earlier than the Shansi, and was was taken off duty three years ago, then being used for hulk duty fat Chinkiang. Both vessels were of 1,100 tons nett, Tue late Mr. Jacob Menashih Joseph (57), of Route Pottier, Shanghai, left estate in England valued at £25,410.
Nontiteny papers report the wedding on June 30 of Mr. A. E, Burt of the Yokohata. office of the American Express Ca. and Miss Helen Frances Griffin.
Ose of Shanghai's old residents, Mrs. E, W. Tisdall, deplores the risk which young' people in Shanghai are taking these days running about in the sun, often with no hat at all or with inadequate straw protection. Topees and smoked glasses are the only sure safeguards against a-touch of the sun, Mrs. Tisdall feels. She repeats ith gusto a story which old Dr. Jamieson used to tell about a who said to the doctor: "By friends tell me it is bad for the brain to wear a straw hat." "Not at all, not! at all," the'doctor assured him, "the very fact that you wear a straw hat shows that you have no brain."
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