Among those things which melt from tha landscape of Shanghai year by year may be vated Christ" mas caroling. By this it is not meant to imply that Christmas lcaroling ever had a romantic clutha jon the sentiments of Shanghai oven in the old days When distances were less and the t: lephone service better because nobody bothered jus it in the ordinary course of sending chits. The plaint relative to the singing of carols at Christ~ mas is heard in other places than Shanghai, where Christmas Eve has forsworn' the homely pastimes of another generation and taken to the iveness of jazz bands, periods they had in recent years was when the Emperor Kuang Hsu! and the great Dowager died, for then all shaving was stopped. The authorities deemed it necessary, to inaugurate relief measures, but, fortunately these did not require to bbe on the extensive scale which was at first feared, as the official period of mourning was reduced, locally at any rat*, for the amelioration of their distress.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.