T do not know who they are but 1 sincerely hope, that this letter will eet their eyes, that in the comforts which a blind fortune has given them, their conscience will speak—if animals have a conscfenge.
T am, ete, Mars.
Shanshai, Dee, 2, 1926.
SWe heard of this case and heartily endorse what our correspondent rays. The thing is beyond words—Ed, to the St. Andrew's Ball and I
Jeoked forward with pleasant anti cipation to this function as I-had never been at one before.
In a moment of rashness I sccepted an invitation to dinner that night from my host and hestese but, I was rather surprised to note that, the time for dinner was sct for 8.30 p.m. while the opening of the ball was timed for 9 o'clock.
Imagine my horror when I found. that it was evidently a rule of my hostess never to be on time at any fenetion, a fact she gloried in, and the dinner lingered on till close on 10.30 and we arrived at the Hall about 10.45, The official procession of the President and his reception of his guests was long over, the eighth dance was in progress and as I had booked seven dances that were over I unfortunately disappointed seven partners, Why it is the custom of Shanghai to have its dinners commencing 20 late as oven 8 p.m, is a mystery to me as it means late bed going every night in the week even if one dines alone and at home. No Wonder servants go on strike when they are kept on their fect from early morning till midnight nearly and I think it is about the most senseless and inconsiderate system I have even heard of, I have never been more disted in my life and the whole of my evening was spoiled throug! the asinine stupidity of a senseless hostess who besets of being always Leto. Perhaps she and others like her will wake up to their fault too late to remedy the evil effect of their stupidity.
Once bitten twice shy will be my motto in future and if T am invited to a function again I shall take are to dine in lonely state and in plenty of time to be at it when the curtain rises.
T trust you will pardon my, peevishness and excuse the writer for encroaching on your valuable space, T am, ote, Dis wrromten. Shanghei, Dee. 2, 1928, To the Editor of the "NowtH-CuiNA DAILY News."
Sim-—I appreciated the article yeo print in to-day's paper regarding the inconvenience caused by late comers at the performance of "Outward Bound." I went to see the play and the first act was entirely spoiled for me by the continual flow of late arrivals passing betwixt me and th stage. On Sunday night I went, ao Tam in the habit of doing, to hear the musie at the Town Hall." On this ocension I was ten minutes Into and when I got there found that the first item on the programme was in process of being played and the door was shut. There was no need of "a dozen hefty men" to keep the door. One old Chinese doorkeeper was quite adequate to do this and a ttle crowd of late comers waited Patiently; perhaps because they! knew that if they created a disturbance by insisting on ing in Maestro Paci would at once have stopped the performance and, probably, have made their ears tingle with his caustic comments on tacit rudeness. What can be done in the Town Hall can be done equally well in any other building if the munagement will but exhibit equal firmness.
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