Government that a Well timed is the Municipal held this year. nounced some time ago that no fair would be held this Spring. That was to allow the old committee to liquidate fairs. Now the announcement that the three Military Rulers of the city and this end of the province have agreed that the Industrial Department shall have the privilege of organizing a Fair to permit the manufacturers and business men a chance to" show their wares.
Accordingly it is being o under the, guidance of the "Chan or the Department of usually ras undrinkable and then changed the subject to his golf handicap had a kindred spirit in the lady who visited the Taj Mahal by" moonlight and stumbled at the extortion of the motor-driver.
Yet there is much to be said utilitarian outlook. Mr. Pickwick's biking for cold punch days is well known,. He included in his catholic taste an_ affection for rum but on 4 certain historic occasion he brandy and_w reply, based on Br. extensive and peculiar ledge of London, was almost exhaustive:
"Second court on the right hand side—last house but yun on the same side the vay—take the box a stands in the frst fireplace, there ant no leg in the middle 0° the table, wich all others has, and it's wary i Besides being frank these vell tales have a far more convincing air than the most. elaborate descriptions of archifectural wonders or the ecstasy of sentimental appreciation. Mr. Bouncer found the guide-book at Oxford of invaluable use in writing his flagrantly deceitful letters' to his mother. They served his turn but as his mother was not likely to desire—in those days at all events—to gain practical experience of the ways and modes which 30. puzzled Mr. Verdant Green the device did no one any harm.. The stranger who comes to Shanghai well-equipped with the intention to avoid the rum may, in the event, be as competent as the most document-laden inquisitor to arrive at a satisfactory means of seeing Shanghai and surviving. He has at least preconceived ideas on only one point; he keeps an open mind on the rest, whereas the inquisitor is apt to be so. oppressed by illusions which undergo a process of constant shattering that he has no time to gather impressions of any permanent service to him. "He may therefore tumble into many errors, including that of not avoiding the rum, farmers have Fair has been called a Flower Fair for over two thousand years according to Chengtu History. It sto be hoped "that the "hortcal be encouraged again they make a beautiful ispiay. "The people like the Fai, when it starts in the second Chinese months usually Insts forty About one hundred thousand the city to the great temple grounds daily. So this news has pleased the people "and seems to indicate an era of pence in this end the province t like plans are antic Spring, When mention of Spring Fair. ated there is a good omen,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.