From the begining of this month certain local firms hays adopted the nearest approach which Shanghai has yet successfully made to adopting summer time, commencing office hours half an hour earlier inthe morning and finishing halt an hour earlier in the afternoon. Ithas been a courageous effort this month, considering that almost every other day it has rained. is true that there have been a few games of lawn tennis and lawn bowls, but the weather har been so bad that the re-turfing of places on the polo ground which normally by now would have been completed, has had to be delayed. Still one may hope for the future benefit of this measure to innumerable people fettered ofice stool, and it may trusted that their experience will be happier than those who a year ov two ago had to remind the chief of their department that summer time had actually come into force. 'Te was realized that, Tike other mortals, he was subject to slight Lapses of memory, and apparently every-Yody knew' that instead of packing up-et 430 p.m, he would continue ie distribution of jobs of work. As anticipated the, event happened, whereupon the' staff irreverently burst into the well-known hymn, "The day Thou gayest, Lord, The result is' reported to have been perfectly effective,
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